Right. He told me he will put in his chairman's mark my HIV language, and it is not cruel. It simply says, as you and I have spoken, that if you have contracted the AIDS virus, and nobody is left in the military who got it through polluted blood. You and I know that the odds are a 100 to 1, a 1,000 to 1, 10,000 to 1 you got it from violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. You put a dirty needle in your arm. That is the biggest category out of the roughly 400. You went to an off-limits house of prostitution where 100 percent of the prostitutes are infected with AIDS--the killing venereal disease virus--or you went to an off-limits homosexual bar. That is the smallest of the three categories. You are going to get a honorable discharge, and you ought to thank your stars for it, and you got 6 months to pack up your bags. I hope the military will move paster because they are going to go ``figmo,'' and you remember what that means, not much you can get out of somebody when they know they are going to leave in a few months and they are leaving a little disgruntled. They will get the world's best hospital treatment in the VA hospitals. You worked those hospitals for almost two decades here. They transfer even to the very same hospital where they are already getting care. But here is the important part. I have actually bought our military by putting off active duty honorably 1,400 HIV carriers.…
Robert Dornan: “Right. He told me he will put in his chairman's mark my HIV language, and it is not cruel. It simply says, as you and I…”
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Discussing HIV policy and military discharges during a congressional debate.
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