>On the other, here is a snippet (there are many out there):
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> Sen. Carl M. Levin (D-Mich.), chairman of the Armed Services Committee, asked, "Did the Dutch leaders tell you it was because there were gay soldiers there?"
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>"They included that as part of the problem," Sheehan said.
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>On Friday, Dutch Defense Minister Eimert van Middelkoop called Sheehan's comments "scandalous, and unworthy of a soldier." Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said, "Toward Dutch troops, homosexual or heterosexual, it is way off the mark to talk like that about people and the work they do under very difficult circumstances."
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>He said he did not intend to bring up the matter with Obama, however, because Sheehan, a former NATO commander, is retired.
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>Sheehan said Gen. Henk van den Breemen, former Dutch defense chief of staff, had suggested to him that allowing gays to serve openly in the Netherlands' military had undermined its readiness.
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>But the Dutch Defense Ministry said that van den Breemen had never expressed such sentiments and that he considered them "absolute nonsense."
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>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031904284.html
>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7478738/Gay-Dutch-soldiers-responsible-for-Srebrenica-massacre-says-US-general.html
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>Who knows, they are both probably idiots.

I've not found any reference that van den Breemden has made this statement; the only thing we know for sure is that Sheehan made that comment. I know that about the time in the 1990's there was some discussion about gays in our army, so who knows what has been said informally.