From: bobworn@aol.com
Subject: SNET: A Speech That Wasn't Given
Date: 30 Jul 2000 15:40:22 -0400
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Subject: A Speech That Wasn't Given
The West Point Speech Mr. Gore Didn't Deliver"
by Jim Nicholson [chairman of the Republican National Committee, a
graduate of the United States Military Academy, a decorated Vietnam
veteran and retired colonel, U.S. Army Reserve]
Vice President Al Gore will be giving the commencement address this
weekend at the United States
Military Academy. Here's what he should be saying, but won't:
"I'm sorry.
"I'm sorry that for the last seven years, you've had to abide an
administration that didn't properly value
the military's commitment - at tremendous personal cost and peril - to
defending the freedoms we
cherish, and to advancing the cause of liberty around the world.
"I'm sorry we had no discernible foreign policy to guide you.
"I'm sorry that we haven't honored and respected our men and
women in uniform as we should have.
"I'm sorry that 12,000 of your fellow soldiers are so poorly paid that
they're on food stamps.
"Im sorry that a third of them have to live in housing that even the
Inspector General of the Defense Department calls 'substandard.'
"I'm sorry that we've regularly over-committed and under-funded our
armed forces.
"I'm sorry we've run our national security policy by reading the public
opinion polls.
"I'm sorry that we've used the military as a laboratory for social
policy, rather than as the fighting force
it's meant to be.
"I'm sorry I said I would sacrifice military preparedness on the altar
of political correctness - and that I wouldn't have someone like
Colin Powell on my staff if he didn't agree with me.
"I wish I could say all this was an oversight. But it wasn't.
"You have to understand: I'm running for President right now, and that
means I have to do the flag-waving, rah-rah, 'we love the military' thing
because I want the votes of people who believe in that
stuff - probably the overwhelming majority of Americans.
"That's one of the things I learned from my mentor, Bill Clinton - a man
who once wrote that he 'loathe[d] the military,' but who today loves
nothing better than to have his picture taken with a bunch of men and
women in uniform, while he's wearing that cool leather 'Commander in
Chief' bomber jacket that goes with the job. By the way, he really likes
it when the Marine Corps Band plays 'Hail to the Chief,' too.
"But a lot of the people who have worked hardest for Clinton and Gore
don't care for any of this. They don't like the military at all, when you
come right down to it. They barely tolerate it, as a 'necessary evil.'
"You know them - they're the ones who have protested every military
deployment from Vietnam to the Persian Gulf War. They think there
really aren't any evil people in the world. They cringed when Reagan
called the Soviet Union an 'evil empire.' They think that no one really
wants to do us harm or, if they do, it's for a pretty good reason. They
think there's no problem that can't be solved if Americans will just
offer a few more concessions.
"These are the same people who, when Bill and I first came into office,
told military officers we didn't want them wearing their uniforms around
the White House.
"One White House staffer even had the audacity to tell a general - a
graduate of West Point, I might add, who happened to be one of the most
decorated men on active duty - that she wouldn't talk to 'people in uniform.'
"Most of you probably didn't support us in the past and won't support me
in the future, no matter how aggressively I pander to you now.
"So ... congratulations, Class of 2000! Good luck ... and ... oh, yes
........I'm sorry!!"
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