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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (Reuters) - President Bush made a final, frenetic blitz across the battleground state of Florida on Sunday urging Americans to "come stand with me" and give him another term to fight the war on terror and keep taxes low. Appearing loose and upbeat with the race deadlocked and Election Day fast approaching, Bush urged some 17,000 cheering supporters at an airport rally in northern Florida to "turn 'em out and we'll carry Florida and win a great victory on Tuesday" over Democrat John Kerry. At rallies in Gainesville, Tampa and Miami, Bush vowed his determination to win the...

The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam is politically pressuring the government of Vietnam to protect the liberty, religious rights of the Vietnamese people as well as the culture, traditions, languages of the Montagnards and Khmer Krom in Vietnam. (PRWEB) October 23, 2004 -- Today, Vietnam is experiencing a minor period of outward growth. Even the most dedicated Communists are abandoning old communist economic policies, which have proven to be ineffective and sometimes harmful. Capitalism is being introduced, with the Communist Party maintained only as a vehicle to exercise absolute control of the elite Party leaders over the common people. The...

Aurora,IL (PRWEB) September 8, 2004 -- OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS - From the Office of the Leadership of the The Imperial Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam & Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League: His Imperial Highness Prince Nguyen Phuc Buu Chanh of Vietnam, Regent of the Imperial Nguyen Dynasty and President of The Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League denounces the Communist Government on the return of United States Servicemen MIA or possible POWs’ and Human Rights Record. It has been stated by American Marines and Army Soldiers who are in Vietnam searching for MIA's, that there is corruption within the government of Vietnam. They stated that...

What a great day yesterday was. Part of this week I was assigned to augment Secret Service with dignitary protection as the Safari Club International was in town. While working the assignment on Tuesday evening I had a chance to briefly meet Lt. Col. Oliver North, to shake his hand and thank him for his service to our country. That was neat but today was the best. Yesterday morning I was able to meet and shake hands with the 41st President of the United States, President George Herbert Walker Bush. I thanked him too for his lifetime of service to...

Republican party officials say a private fund-raiser attended by former President Bush and retired General Schwarzkopf raised $500,000. Indiana gubernatorial candidate Mitch Daniels, former Vice President Quayle and actress Bo Derek also were among the guests at Thursday's $5000-a-ticket event at the home of businessman Steve Chancellor. Chancellor hosted a similar GOP event in July 2000 that raised more than $1.4 million. But new campaign finance laws have put caps on contributions. State Republican Chairman Jim Kittle says that makes it more difficult to raise large amounts of money at a single time. The most a person can now donate...

Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf said Monday it's nice to see the United States military finish the job started by troops under his command in the first Persian Gulf war. The capture of Saddam Hussein brings "closure" for all the troops involved in Operation Desert Storm, Schwarzkopf said in an interview on NBC's Today show. Schwarzkopf said the option to capture Saddam did not exist during the first gulf war. "At that time, it was very clear why we had to make the decision we did," he said. "It was a coalition of forces and a strong mandate from the United...

By now my enthusiasm for the liberation of Iraq is clear enough, I hope, that I can take a day to rain on the parade. As impressive as the current campaign is, American policy in dealing with Saddam Hussein has been a bipartisan chamber of horrors. Consider for example the Clinton administration low point, extensively described in Robert Baer's CIA memoir, "See No Evil." Mr. Baer headed a small CIA team in Northern Iraq in 1995, in contact with the two Kurdish factions as well as with Ahmad Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress and a defecting Iraqi general, Wafiq...

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- It has been reported that American intelligence operatives have e-mailed Iraqi generals in the hope that some of them might turn on Saddam Hussein. Some in the government seem to believe that the upper echelons of the Iraqi army are filled with closet Jeffersonians, waiting for just the right time to put a bullet in Saddam Hussein's head so that they can lead Iraq down the path of true democracy. Some believe that Iraqi generals are a cynical lot who might be expected to turn on Saddam to be on the winning side. The U.S....

Feb 16, 2003 Schwarzkopf Says President Bush Has "taken Charge" for America The Associated Press MELBOURNE, Fla. (AP) - Retired Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf is giving President Bush high praise for his leadership skills. "Here is a man who has been placed in command by the American people, and by golly, he has taken charge," Schwarzkopf told a crowd of 350 assembled at a benefit dinner in Melbourne on Saturday night. Schwarzkopf, who achieved four-star rank, led more than 200,000 troops during the Gulf War. Schwarzkopf said foreign support for any war would be appreciated, but it is hardly...

Wednesday, 29 January, 2003, 15:20 GMT Stormin' Norman: Don't rush into war Schwarzkopf became famous during the last Gulf WarFormer US Gulf War commander Norman Schwarzkopf has said a new war with Iraq has not yet been justified. The thought of Saddam Hussein with a sophisticated nuclear capability is a frightening thought Norman Schwarzkopf General Schwarzkopf, who became known as "Stormin' Norman" during the 1991 Gulf War, called for United Nations weapons inspectors to be given more time to assess whether Iraq had any illegal weapons. "I think it is very important for us to wait and see what...

TAMPA--Norman Schwarzkopf wants to give peace a chance. The general who commanded U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War says he hasn't seen enough evidence to convince him that his old comrades Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz are correct in moving toward a new war now. He thinks U.N. inspections are still the proper course to follow. He's worried about the cockiness of the U.S. war plan, and even more by the potential human and financial costs of occupying Iraq. And don't get him started on Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. In fact, the hero of the last Gulf...

I've long believed that America learned the wrong lessons from its Vietnam experience, which is why I was gratified to hear about a new award-winning documentary that might help set the record straight. Sadly, it appears, the History Channel doesn't share my view. "The Long Way Home Project" is a four-part digitally recorded film series on the Vietnam War. So? There have been some 600 documentary films, feature films and television projects on the Vietnam era, so what's newsworthy about yet another one? Well, its producers say that it is "fact-based, well researched and incorporates startling new revelations about the...

Saturday October 27 10:16 PM ET Schwarzkopf: U.S. Has Better Chance CLEVELAND (AP) - Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf said he believes the United States has a better chance than the former Soviet Union of winning a war in Afghanistan (news - web sites). Schwarzkopf also told about 1,000 people during a speech Friday that the country will fare better than it did in Vietnam. Schwarzkopf, former commander of the allied forces in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, said the Soviets failed in Afghanistan because they thought they could win quickly and use conventional weapons and tactics. But he said ...