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Following address by Michael New forwarded courtesy ju...@data.flex.net
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MICHAEL G. NEW
HOMECOMING RALLY, MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CONROE, TEXAS 28 JULY 1996

Standing is an important posture in life. People stand when the national
anthem is played. When the flag passes, people stand and cover their
hearts. On political issues people ask where do you stand, what is your
position?

For generations, parents in America have taught us how to stand. They have
shown us what to stand for and what to stand against.

I am here today for no other reason than the fact that I made a stand as a
U.S. Army Specialist on October 10, 1995. It was a simple act. The course
set before me was clear. I had no question about where to stand that early
fall morning in Schweinfurt, Germany.

It all began on August 21, 1995 when my seniors in the U.S. Army chain of
command informed me that my battalion, first of the fifteenth, 3rd Infantry
Division, would soon be deployed to a UN operation in Macedonia. However,
they said this UN mission would be different from the previous UN mission
on which I served in Kuwait. My seniors informed me that this deployment
required my battalion to significantly alter our uniforms by removing the
U.S. flag from the right shoulder, the senior side of the U.S. Army Battle
Dress Uniform, to the left shoulder, and replace the flag with a UN patch,
badge and insignia. We would also wear a UN blue beret or helmet.

This seemed like an unusual requirement, to put the UN badge in a more
important position on my uniform than the flag. Without knowing a lot about
the UN, it seemed wrong to me. The Army taught me that the wearing of a
uniform, or the accoutrements of a uniform, was a sign of allegiance and
faithfulness to the authority or power so signified. As an American
fighting man, how could I wear the badges and insignia of another
government? I had taken an oath to the United States of America and no
other. I had sworn to support and defend the Constitution against all
enemies foreign and domestic, to obey the orders of the President and those
in authority over me. But the Army enlisted oath doesn't bind me to blind
obedience, but goes on to say "according to regulations and the Uniform
Code of Military Justice, so help me, God."

Like I said in that oath, I fully intended to obey all lawful orders,
according to regulations. Congress makes all regulations governing the
land and naval forces. And the experts in the military on the wearing of
the regulation uniform are the sergeants. So, I asked my sergeant, how we
as American soldiers, could wear a "UN uniform" and still be American
soldiers? The response I got to my sergeant's level question about the
proper
wear of the historic U.S. Army uniform was not what I expected. I was
threatened with court martial, imprisonment or less than an honorable
discharge, if I did not wear the "UN uniform."

And further, I was directed to study the history and objectives of the UN.
This I did and I was more proud to be an American than ever before. I knew
I did not want to be a member of the UN military force. The UN Charter,
their constitution, is based upon very subjective man-made regulations and
their brand of human rights are given by the men of the United Nations.
Their rights are not like those we have been endowed with by our Creator,
but rather can be modified or taken away by the UN. I saw from my own
study that the UN's authority and founding principles are diametrically
opposed to the founding documents of America, my country, and the United
States, my government.

As the time ticked off from August, through September to October, I did not
receive an answer from the Army about the lawfulness of the order to wear
the badges and insignia of the UN on my uniform, until October 2, 1995,
when there was a special unprecedented briefing on the legal basis for
deployment to Macedonia and the wearing of the "UN uniform." The five
hundred and fifty soldiers in my battalion filed into an auditorium in
Schweinfurt to hear from an Army lawyer, who was a West Point graduate. At
the end of a 52 minute presentation, he finally came to the answer I had
been waiting so many tense weeks to hear. The reason, he says, we wear the
UN uniform, is because "they look fabulous!" Everyone in the auditorium
laughed. I didn't think it was very funny.

By that time I knew that the UN uniform was not regulation. The only
regulation berets, are the Green for Special Forces, the black for Rangers
and the maroon for Airborne. None of the seven UN uniform accoutrements
have made it into the Army's regulation handbook for soldiers because
Congress has not approved the wear of the UN uniform.

My stand was not a matter of conscience, it was a matter of my
understanding that there is an objective (stand)ard which doesn't make
allowances for what I think or feel about it. I believe that the laws and
our Constitution are the final word, and I had sworn to uphold this
objective external standard. Thus on October 10, 1995, on a misty fall
morning, I walked out into a sea of baby blue, in my historic and
completely regulation U.S. Army battle dress uniform. The same uniform in
which many a brave soldier has shed blood in order to preserve and protect
our American way of life. I was ordered to fall out for not surrendering
my regulation BDU. As I followed the my squad leader from the formation
that October day, I knew I would never return to my unit and that I was in
trouble with a huge institution, one which I care a great deal about, and
one in which I strove to be a good soldier.

After I made my intention to stand firm clear to my family, Dad knew I was
going to need some legal assistance. My mother and father have been very
supportive throughout and I can never thank them enough for standing by
each other all these years and especially for standing by me over the past
year. They taught me that in life taking a stand could cost me. They were
right.

Dad found help for me in Colonel Ronald D. Ray. A retired Marine, Col. Ray
is a lawyer, a Vietnam combat veteran and an historian. I received word
that I would be court martialed for my stand and Colonel Ray began
researching my legal position. He said my stand did not just need a
defense. It also needed an offense. He said, "We never win on the
defense. We must take the war to them." While he told me my case was
conclusive, and that I was on solid legal ground, he did not trust the
courts. And, as a Vietnam veteran, he said experience had taught him that
you can win all the battles and yet lose the war in the court of public
opinion. Therefore Colonel Ray and my father took the offensive war to the
airwaves of talk radio and let people know of my stand.

I believe that Colonel Ray was ignited by my stand but he also said he had
a belly full of limited "no-win" UN wars, probably from his time in
Vietnam. Some of you may be veterans of the Korean war. Korea was the
first limited UN war in which victory was not the primary objective.
Orders began coming from New York instead of Washington and General
MacArthur, who said, "In war there is no substitute for victory," had to be
relieved of command. That kind of winning attitude had to be eliminated.
Then came Vietnam. It badly marked a generation. Men, deceived by their
political leaders, fought half a world away when the real battle was being
fought here for the heart and soul of America. It seemed, as I learned
more about how the UN military wages "peace" in places like Korea, Vietnam,
and Somalia, that Macedonia and Bosnia seemed like more of the same limited
"no-win" UN wars.

In January 1996 as we prepared for court martial, my stand would ratchet up
in a way I could never have anticipated due to four Presidential letters
which appeared in Col. Ray's fax machine from Germany late one evening.
These letters were part of the legal discovery the Army owed my defense but
they were held back without comment and too late for inclusion in the
written legal presentation before the court. These letters would show
without question that Bill Clinton had misrepresented the Macedonian
deployment to Congress. Mr. Clinton told the Congress in those four
letters that the Macedonian mission was not of significant danger to
warrant their approval. That was provably not true. The Colonel said that
the military judge would never rule on the lawfulness of a Presidential
order, so he filed suit against the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary
of the Army seeking an honorable discharge for me in an independent federal
court. The offensive campaign in the Courts, the Congress and the court of
public opinion was really accelerating.

The President said the Macedonian deployment was a Chapter VI UN mission.
However, 27 UN Security Council Resolutions would refer to the Macedonian
deployment as a Chapter VII, which, under the UN Participation Act of 1945,
requires Congressional approval. Approval is required because the
Constitution provided for a balance of power. The President is not a King.
When America sends her sons and daughters into harms way, the voice and
will of "We the People" must be heard through our elected representatives.
This responsibility and limitation on his Presidential authority was
something else Bill Clinton dodged. I clearly understood my stand was now
toe to toe with Bill Clinton. On October 10, 1995, my stand was related to
my change of status as an American fighting man. I had not questioned
foreign policy. Remember, I had asked a sergeant's level question.

1. I was standing against an unlawful order to deploy to Macedonia; 2.
refusing the President's order to wear the UN uniform; 3. refusing to serve
under a foreign UN commander; 4. and refusing to be required to carry only
the UN identification card.

In January 1995, as a result of the Presidential letters, my stand began to
be seen in a much larger context, as a stand for the country and a stand
for over 30,000 other soldiers unlawfully deployed around the world in UN
military operations.

However, on January 24, 1996, I was convicted of not obeying what the
prosecution called a "lawful order" even though they admitted in open court
in Germany that the uniform was not a regulation uniform. My defense was
not allowed to put on the overwhelming evidence that the order was unlawful
which pointed to presidential wrongdoing and the failure of Congressional
oversight. The military judge basically said it was above his pay grade to
rule on Presidential wrong doing and bucked it up to the next judiciary
level.

My stand has brought me back to America with a bad conduct discharge and
appeals hanging over me in both the civilian and military court systems. I
left Germany in the middle of July and traveled to Washington to meet with
Congressional leaders whom Colonel Ray had briefed on my stand and its
significance to American law and public policy. Because of my stand and
the tremendous support my stand has received from many wonderful people
like you, Colonel Ray gained access to testify before a Senate foreign
policy subcommittee and UN ambassador Madeline Albright had to come and
explain by what authority America soldiers are transferred from the U.S.
military to the UN military. Through it all, I have simply stood and,
until reaching America two weeks, I have not spoken about this matter which
shows just how powerful a stand can be.

I am now out of uniform, but the Congress is not out of jeopardy of losing
control of America's military to U.N. command and control. But because of
my stand, there is legislation now in Congress. H.R. 3308, which is
deceptively entitled, "The Armed Forces Protection Act of 1996," has been
rightly labeled by Congressman Roscoe Bartlett as "unconstitutional,
containing an illegal transfer of Congressional authority to the Executive
branch."

If it is passed, H.R. 3308 will give legislative and political cover to
President Clinton for his three years of
misrepresentation to Congress in sending U.S. soldiers like me on UN
military operations to places like Macedonia, forcing us to wear
unauthorized UN uniforms, and to serve under foreign UN commanders. These
UN commanders take an oath of exclusive allegiance to the United Nations,
but after committing themselves to the UN and being put on the UN payroll,
they command U.S. troops making life and death decisions over them.

Even President Clinton has admitted that if captured, these troops,
unlawfully deployed, fall into a bottomless pit in international law when
serving as UN military. They lose important legal protections if taken
hostage, as many have been in Macedonia, and that is of critical
importance, especially if the one captured is your son, father, uncle, or
anyone else in your family.

Substitute legislation has been drafted and offered by my defense team to
Congressmen and women to introduce and support in opposition to H.R. 3308.
It is entitled "The American Soldier Protection and American Command
Preservation Act." It would prevent the president and others from freely
internationalizing the U.S. armed forces through the multi-national
government of the United Nations. I am told the Republicans have been slow
to pick up this legislation and the opportunity to shame Bill Clinton for
this bad treatment of American soldiers, especially in an election year.
Col. Ray says it is because they don't really disagree with Clinton's UN
policies to wage "peace" around the world.

Now, as you can tell, I am not a speaker or a politician. I am a soldier.
I swore an oath to the Constitution, took my post and I made my stand. I
was proud and comforted to make my stand on October 10, 1995, protected by
our Constitution. I have done what I am able to do. Let my stand serve as
a sign to you of how far we have gone in subjugating the United States
military to the United Nations military. However, I must tell you I do not
intend to become a symbol, only a sign to point out, in this case, a
hazard. I do not want to be held up as something extraordinary. I did
only what I had to do to be able to keep my oath and live with myself.

The message I stand before you today to give you is to contact the Legal
Defense Fund, keep up with the latest information in regard to the defense
of my stand, which so many of you have kindly adopted. My mission in the
courts is simply to obtain an honorable discharge for my honorable
disobedience. Also, please stay current with the offensive action taken as
a result of my stand, the Congressional legislation developed by Colonel
Ray and others more skilled than I, to protect our country and support our
troops. If I could cause this much trouble as one person, just think about
what you can do. It is up to you.

I am a simple soldier, and I am now a civilian, as I said earlier, I am not
a speaker or a politician, but there are those of you who are. And because
you are, I charge you this day to take up this effort because the day is
coming soon when the U.S. Army Code of Conduct will become as obsolete as
General MacArthur became during the Korean war when the code was written I
am told by heroes like, Dwayne Thorin, because of the confusion among the
ranks about their allegiance: To the UN or U.S? It reads in part:

I will never forget that I am an American fighting man. I serve in
the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to
give my life in their defense.

I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command I will
never surrender my men while they still have the means to resist.

I will never forget that I am an American fighting man,responsible
for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which make my country free.
I will trust in God and in the United States of America.

Thank you, God bless you and God bless America.

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"Our law and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the
teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be
otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our
institutions are emphatically Christian. .... this is a religious people.
This is historically true. From the discovery of this continent to the
present hour, there is a single voice making this affirmation .... we find
everywhere a clear recognition of the same truth....this is a Christian
nation."

Justice David J. Brewer
U. S. Supreme Court
Holy Trinity Church vs US (1892)

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Support SPC Michael New, NOT U.N. Blue!

THE MICHAEL NEW DEFENSE FUND
P.O. Box 927
Conroe, Texas 77305
Fax:(409) 756-MIKE
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Douglas E. Berry

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Aug 9, 1996, 3:00:00 AM8/9/96

In article <comminc-0808...@198.147.73.30>,
com...@fortnet.org (Col Roberts) wrote:

>MICHAEL G. NEW
>HOMECOMING RALLY, MONTGOMERY COUNTY COURTHOUSE, CONROE, TEXAS 28 JULY 1996

So the weasel speaks for himself.

>Standing is an important posture in life. People stand when the national
>anthem is played. When the flag passes, people stand and cover their
>hearts. On political issues people ask where do you stand, what is your
>position?

I take it you haven't taken in a major league ball game recently. Very few
Americans have this level of 1950s patriotism you describe.

>For generations, parents in America have taught us how to stand. They have
>shown us what to stand for and what to stand against.

So you do everything that Dad tells you to do? You are an adult, Mr. New, you
are supposed to judge the situation for yourself.

>I am here today for no other reason than the fact that I made a stand as a
>U.S. Army Specialist on October 10, 1995. It was a simple act. The course
>set before me was clear. I had no question about where to stand that early
>fall morning in Schweinfurt, Germany.

The exact same act taken by Americans who decided that the Vietnam War was
illegal, and protested it by standing up to the draft boards. Only difference
was, YOU were a volunteer who took the money and training until the day you
were asked to fulfil the requirerments of your posistion.

>It all began on August 21, 1995 when my seniors in the U.S. Army chain of
>command informed me that my battalion, first of the fifteenth, 3rd Infantry
>Division, would soon be deployed to a UN operation in Macedonia. However,
>they said this UN mission would be different from the previous UN mission
>on which I served in Kuwait. My seniors informed me that this deployment
>required my battalion to significantly alter our uniforms by removing the
>U.S. flag from the right shoulder, the senior side of the U.S. Army Battle
>Dress Uniform, to the left shoulder, and replace the flag with a UN patch,
>badge and insignia. We would also wear a UN blue beret or helmet.

I was once ordered to report for duty on a certain date with a minimum 5 days
growth of beard and in my grungiest civies. We were assisting the Georgia
State Cops with a video on making arrests on resisting subjects. Nowhere in
the US Army tradition do I find Grateful Dead t-shirts and faded bluejeans
mentioned. Should I have gone crying to Army lawyers?

>This seemed like an unusual requirement, to put the UN badge in a more
>important position on my uniform than the flag. Without knowing a lot about
>the UN, it seemed wrong to me.

When the difference is being shot at or not...

> The Army taught me that the wearing of a uniform, or the accoutrements of a
>uniform, was a sign of allegiance and faithfulness to the authority or power
so signified.

So your personal commitment to the United States Army was dependant on whether
or not you had a flag sewed to you? Would you seriously believe that ANYONE
would throw their loyalty out the window due to the color of their covers?

>As an American fighting man, how could I wear the badges and insignia of
>another government? I had taken an oath to the United States of America and
>no other. I had sworn to support and defend the Constitution against all
>enemies foreign and domestic, to obey the orders of the President and those
>in authority over me.

But when called upon to obey those orders, YOU had the sheer gall to question
not only the direct order of you commanding officer, but those of the
President and the U.S. Code, Section 10, that was signed into law by
Eisenhower! What, the General who won the Western Front In WWII not *good*
enough for you? Do yourself a favor and read "Crusade in Europe" and learn
what happens when REAL soldiers stop whining about the order of patches on
their uniforms and start working together.

>But the Army enlisted oath doesn't bind me to blind obedience, but goes on to
>say "according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, so
>help me, God."

And you knew all of the UCMJ, The complete book of Army Regs, the entirety of
US Treaty Law, and the Manual for Courts-Martial when you decided not to go.

>Like I said in that oath, I fully intended to obey all lawful orders,
>according to regulations. Congress makes all regulations governing the
>land and naval forces. And the experts in the military on the wearing of
>the regulation uniform are the sergeants.

Point of order. I used to be a Staff Sergeant. I also wore West German and
Korean Jump Wings on my chest. I have worn the Blue Beret, and guess what! I
was never asked to take an oath to the UN, never asked about invading America,
In fact, I spent a spectacularly boring three months on Cypress with the
British peacekeepers there.

>So, I asked my sergeant, how we as American soldiers, could wear a "UN
>uniform" and still be American soldiers? The response I got to my sergeant's
>level question about the proper wear of the historic U.S. Army uniform was
>not what I expected. I was threatened with court martial, imprisonment or
>less than an honorable discharge, if I did not wear the "UN uniform."

Once again Mr. New: Is your loyalty to the US so weak that you might be
confused if you had a baby-blue helmet on? Are you that susceptible to
corruption?

To be blunt: Just how dumb are you?

>And further, I was directed to study the history and objectives of the UN.
>This I did and I was more proud to be an American than ever before. I knew
>I did not want to be a member of the UN military force. The UN Charter,
>their constitution, is based upon very subjective man-made regulations and
>their brand of human rights are given by the men of the United Nations.

You're right, God forbid we should support an organization that does more to
feed people and give a voice to the third world than anyone in history.

The UN Charter is not a Constitution, and the UN directly rules nothing.

>Their rights are not like those we have been endowed with by our Creator,
>but rather can be modified or taken away by the UN. I saw from my own
>study that the UN's authority and founding principles are diametrically
>opposed to the founding documents of America, my country, and the United
>States, my government.

The Right to Life: Except for the American Indians who were nearly
exterminated, then shoved into reservations.

Liberty: Except for the slaves, until 1865, then over one hundred years
of ongoing bigotry.

The Pursuit of Happiness: Except for the Gays, Irish (1870-1910),
Non-Christians, or any one else who doesn't conform exactly.

Boy, pass me that Apple Pie.

> The reason, he says, we wear the UN uniform, is because "they look

>fabulous!" Everyone in the auditoriumlaughed. I didn't think it was very
>funny.

They surgicaly remove the sense of humor from cadets in their 3rd year.. I
thought everyone knew that.

>By that time I knew that the UN uniform was not regulation. The only
>regulation berets, are the Green for Special Forces, the black for Rangers
>and the maroon for Airborne. None of the seven UN uniform accoutrements
>have made it into the Army's regulation handbook for soldiers because
>Congress has not approved the wear of the UN uniform.

Read Title 10 (I believe) of the US Code. I don't recall seeing brassards in
Hangul in there, but I wore one in Korea.

>Thus on October 10, 1995, on a misty fall morning, I walked out into a sea of
>baby blue, in my historic and completely regulation U.S. Army battle dress
>uniform. The same uniform in which many a brave soldier has shed blood in
>order to preserve and protect our American way of life.

Excuse me? Kid, the BDU was introduced in 1983. The Army has had four
signifcant combat experiences since then:

October 1983 Grenada:

Two divisions of troops, Rangers, USMC, and Navy SEALs take 3 days to subdue a
howling mob of .. 200 Cuban engineers.

December 1989 Panama:

The US invades a foreign power for the sole pupose of toppling the existing
power structure. ( Hey kids, how many laws and treaties does that break? No
problem, we have the Monroe Doctrine on our side, have to keep Spain and
England from establihing colonies, you know.)

August 90 Desert Shield/Storm:

Our former ally Iraq invades neighboring Kuwait. The Saudi princes who run
the Army realize that they might have to do something other than run off to
Monaco this time. So they call the US for aid. And THEN run off to Monaco.
The US does a great job defending Theocratic Monarchy, so we decide to
reinstall an Autocratic Aristocracy to make everything just right. (Now
these are the real American values that Mr. New was talking about)

1991 Somalia:

Another George Bush Fun Fest. We suceed in united the Somalis.. against us.
Last ditch attempt at saving campaign costs 17 American Rangers their lives..
well maybe they were all Democrats.

Mr. New, the last time somebody in an Army uniform bled in direct defense of
America was in early spring of 1942, at Midway and the Aleutian Islands.

>I was ordered to fall out for not surrendering my regulation BDU. As I
>followed the my squad leader from the formation that October day, I knew I
>would never return to my unit and that I was in trouble with a huge
>institution, one which I care a great deal about, and one in which I strove
>to be a good soldier.

Yet you abandoned them just when you were needed most. They were going into a
dangerous area, and one of their medics announces that he is unhappy with the
uniform and won't go. What happens to the team Mr. New? Do you really think
that they thought of you as some kind of hero? I hate to burst your bubble,
but if I was a sergeant in the same battalion, I would make it my mission to
make your life miserable. You were a medic, for Whomever's sake! You held
lives in your hands, and you walked away. I call that cowardice.

>They taught me that in life taking a stand could cost me. They were
>right.

Did they ever teach you that there is a time to fight, and time to wait? You
should have gone to Macedonia, filing a protest with Brigade about the order,
then pursed it when you got back to Germany.

>Some of you may be veterans of the Korean war.

My father was a British Tommie in Korea. Guess who he took orders from? Gen
James VanFleet, US Army. UN Operation, though American histories tend to
ignore anyone elses effort.

>Orders began coming from New York instead of Washington and General
>MacArthur, who said, "In war there is no substitute for victory," had to be
>relieved of command. That kind of winning attitude had to be eliminated.

Have you considered that MacArthur wanted to use NUCLEAR WEAPONS on the
Chinese cities? That he wanted to invade mainland China? That would have
drawn the Soviet Union into the mix. MacArthur was removed after he refused
to stop talking to the press.

>Then came Vietnam. It badly marked a generation. Men, deceived by their
>political leaders, fought half a world away when the real battle was being
>fought here for the heart and soul of America.

Yes, how dare all those minorities demand their Constitutional rights! And
don't those women know their place! And Free Speech? That's unheard of.

>It seemed, as I learned more about how the UN military wages "peace" in
>places like Korea, Vietnam, and Somalia, that Macedonia and Bosnia seemed
>like more of the same limited "no-win" UN wars.

So your solution is to not try to help? Just let the genocide and starvation
continue? While catching up on the history you should have read in High
School, try "The Killing Fields" about Cambodeia under the Khmer Rogue.

>I clearly understood my stand was now toe to toe with Bill Clinton.

Can we all say delusions of grandeur?

>1. I was standing against an unlawful order to deploy to Macedonia; 2.
>refusing the President's order to wear the UN uniform; 3. refusing to serve
>under a foreign UN commander; 4. and refusing to be required to carry only
>the UN identification card.

But what were you tried for?

AWOL. The failure to appear at the appointed time, in the *correct uniform*,
at the appointed place.

Refusual to obey the direct order of a superior officer.

>However, on January 24, 1996, I was convicted of not obeying what the
>prosecution called a "lawful order" even though they admitted in open court
>in Germany that the uniform was not a regulation uniform.

How about in Macedonia, where you were going? Seems to me, that I was
expected to show up in the correct unit for the unit I was assigned with.

>I am told the Republicans have been slow to pick up this legislation and the
>opportunity to shame Bill Clinton for this bad treatment of American
>soldiers, especially in an election year.

So this is about politics. Mr. New, You are getting good at being exploited.
First you get turned into a stalking goat for the anti-UN folks, and lose all
your benefits from the time you served. The folks who encouraged you haven't
even been singed. No, you now go on whinning that the Republican are missing
an attack oppurtunity on the President of the United States. I beg you
Michael, think about what your new friends are asking of you. A US soldier is
supposed to be alert to threats. Look around you!

>Col. Ray says it is because they don't really disagree with Clinton's UN
>policies to wage "peace" around the world.

And what do *you* think?

>Now, as you can tell, I am not a speaker or a politician. I am a soldier.

Not anymore. You choose to lose that by demanding Court-Martial.

> I will never forget that I am an American fighting man. I serve in
>the forces which guard my country and our way of life. I am prepared to
>give my life in their defense.
>
> I will never surrender of my own free will. If in command I will
>never surrender my men while they still have the means to resist.
>
> I will never forget that I am an American fighting man,responsible
>for my actions, and dedicated to the principles which make my country free.
>I will trust in God and in the United States of America.

How about this one-liner from the Ranger creed:

I will always endeavour to uphold the prestige, honor, and high "esprit de
corps" of my Ranger Battalion.

You fail on all three counts.

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