WASHINGTON – Rachel Maddow tackled “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) on her MSNBC show on Thursday, specifically addressing the controversial Senate hearing testimony by Ret. Gen. John Sheehan.

The retired Marine general testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee in support of keeping DADT.

He suggested that repealing DADT would lead to more “rape and sodomy” in the military.

He also argued that the Dutch military was weak because openly gay soldiers are allowed to serve and thus were partially to blame for the mass killing of 8,000 Bosnians by Serb forces in Srebrenica in 1995, Europe’s worst massacre since World War II.

Sheehan’s testimony shocked senators on the panel, and he was grilled in response. The video below shows some of the testimony and response.

"Did the Dutch leaders tell you it was because there were gay soldiers there?" asked Carl Levin, chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

"They included that as part of the problem," Sheehan testified.

Dutch officials were furious with Sheehan’s comments and angrily denounced his remarks.

Dutch Defense Minister Eimert van Middelkoop was not very diplomatic in his response, calling Sheehan “scandalous, and unworthy of a soldier.” Other leading Dutch officials used words like “outrageous,” “irresponsible” and “absolute nonsense.”

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