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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: greenspirit who wrote (11553)	2/19/2000 5:26:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Michael, you are an imbecile. Do you like that title so much that you keep addressing me? I have respect for truth, a word you know nothing of. I have no use whatever for Al Gore, who I think is more than averagely imperfect. As for David Hackworth I think that any reasonable person who read his stuff would have to agree that he was probably a very brave man and is now mentally disturbed. I'll put it to you. Do you think the following column reflects a sane and trustworthy mind, or is the ravings of a deeply disturbed mind? hackworth.com I think that Hackworth must have been deeply injured in the Vietnam War. His ravings and his "love of the common soldier" and his homophobia has led him to project his homophobia on all of the senior military personnel. I will bet you any amount, that if Gore is elected that he will have no trouble at all in finding Chiefs of Staff who agree to open homosexuality. Every one who knows anything at all about military history knows that homosexuals and bisexuals have openly served and bravely fought and died in many ages. Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Alcibiades, Friedrich der Grosse, Douglas MacArthur, I daresay, some one above the rank of corporal (E-4)will gladly take the job. I volunteer (E-5). Thus Hackworth is a homophobe and a fool. I hate to repeat Freud's theory of homophobia (recently supported by research at the University of Georgia) that homophobes are often repressed homosexuals and that the more violent the homophobia the more the homophobe is likely to be a homosexual. I suspect (can't yet prove) that Hackworth with all his "love" for enlisted men is actually a homosexual himself. I never knew an officer who loved an enlisted man who didn't want to sodomize or fellate him. We knew those bastards very, very well. It is the enlisted man's fear of being raped by someone higher in rank or rate, IMO, that makes them so despise homosexuals. When another of the same or lower rate attacks, you can safely beat him up or in many cases kill him. When an enlisted man raises his hand against a superior, he's in deep trouble. So when Hackworth expresses his "love" for enlisted men, I suspect the worse. I can't prove it. I know and like many homosexuals, many of my best friends have been homosexuals and some of them have approached me for sex, some with force. Unlike McCain, I can't tell a homosexual by sight. I have no friends who are homophobes but have no problem with them as long as they admit it. "DEFENDING AMERICA BY DAVID H. HACKWORTH 11 January 2000 TWO STRIPERS AS CHIEFS Last week, Al Gore said he'd require any appointee to the U.S. armed forces Joint Chiefs of Staff to agree in advance to allow homosexuals to serve openly in our military. When asked about Clinton's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, here's how he responded: "I would insist before appointing anybody to the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the individual support my policy. And, yes, I would make that a requirement." After enduring the next 48 hours of heavy incoming fire, the vice president stumbled out of his bunker and told millions of Americans they'd misheard. He weasel-worded that he "did not mean to imply that there should ever be any kind of inquiry into the personal political opinions of the officers." Millions of Americans "misheard"? I don't think so. Clearly, Gore lied. But what's new? He lied about his combat service in Vietnam when he said he'd been there and done that grunt stuff, lied about plowing the back 40 on his daddy's tobacco farm and now is lying about what our ears transmitted to our brains. Sure, most politicians lie. But to lie so blatantly about an issue so critical to our security and then have the chutzpah to say we got it wrong is even more insulting than usual. My take is that, like President Lyndon Johnson, Gore has issues with the brass. I reckon what we witnessed on television was the real Gore caught dead in the center of a subconscious slip. He's on record when he was a soldier in Vietnam for calling his officers "fascists" and driving his buddies nuts over how much he hated the Army. Granted the Army drill must've been hard for a Harvard graduate -- an enlisted man who'd led a privileged life of servants and private schools. The son of a rich and powerful senator wouldn't exactly be thrilled with an outfit that made him get up at o'dark hundred, stand in line in the rain, eat out of a mess kit and shout "How high, sir?" when told to jump. Things got better once Gore got to Vietnam. There his basic weapon was a Remington typewriter, and the headquarters' snack bar was light-years away from the trenches where the daily fighting and dying occurred. He was special: the only enlisted man in Vietnam with his own bodyguard. Gore's senator daddy also got his son's 12-month tour cut to five by leaning on a political general. The unconnected, of course, served a minimum of 12 months unless they went out Purple Heart early on a stretcher or in a body bag. So it's easy to see why he wants generals and admirals who'll go-along-to-get-along, advisers to expedite his political agenda and help scoop up the homosexual vote -- while finishing off our armed forces. But it's critical that the service chiefs and the chairman of the JC of S be their own men, not presidential lap dogs. They must be selected because they're the best in the armed forces to win wars, not because they'll be the president's personal yes men. The chiefs were just so politicized and manipulated by LBJ during the Vietnam War. And as a result of LBJ's anti-brass paranoia, his lies to the public and the service chiefs' dereliction of duty, we lost our first war and have a black monument in Washington D.C. inscribed with the names of 58,000 sacrificial lambs. There's already been too much compromise and not enough standing tall by the chiefs and the rest of our brass hats. In the last seven years, not one serving senior officer has challenged the Clinton-Gore agenda -- pushing political correctness and committing our forces on wrongheaded missions -- that's led to the near destruction of our military. If Gore becomes the prez, I bet a six-pack not one serving admiral and general will sell his or her soul for a chief's job if it means going along with Gore's open-homosexuality-in-the-ranks scenario. There'll be an avalanche of resignations instead. And then a bunch of very liberal corporals will be brought in to take over the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Finally, the Clinton-Gore demolition job on the armed forces will be complete! It just might be expedient to learn Chinese. "