Go Hunter 2008
Go Hunter 2008
Anti-commie PING
Duncan Hunter is the only candidate whose statements match his record.
Now if he could just get his support up over 1% or so.... :(
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary (San Diego, California)
For Immediate Release
May 17, 1993
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT IN “A TOWN HALL MEETING WITH BILL CLINTON”
KGTV Studio San Diego, California
8:00 P.M. PDT
(snipped down to the relevant text on Vietname during the timeframe of Duncan Hunter introducing this bill)
Q Mr. President, this is my brother, Colonel Charles Sharpe. He was captured in North Vietnam October 1st, 1965. And I have very good reason he is still alive today. Mr. President, you promised a clean sweep when you became President. The POW families have been stonewalled for more than 20 years by the same people in power. The gridlock continues. And at the same time, the Vietnamese government, the policy of the Vietnamese government, “we can keep you forever,” continues. But it could end with the removal of the old guard and replacement of a new guard.
My question, Mr. President, will you extend this same clean sweep as promised to our POWs, change in the gridlock, and why haven’t you signed an executive order releasing information to the families so the truth can finally be told and to pave the way for the return of our alive prisoners?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, I think we have made public a lot of information. And I will go back and check and see what the status of that is. Let me say, first of all, if you have any information about your brother you want to give me, I will do my best to run it down.
Q I would be happy to, sir.
THE PRESIDENT: Secondly, let me say that I have sent or supported a number of Vietnam veterans going over to Vietnam in the last several weeks to try to get more and more information. For the first time, when General Vessey was over there the last time, just a few weeks ago, we actually got a list, they gave us their list, which appears to be a very authentic list of every POW and MIA that they knew and what happened to them, with a lot of information that they had never even revealed that they had before. So I think they are moving forward, because the — our big stick now is they want to make money, they want to do business with us. And the United States, unlike a lot of other countries — France, will colonized Vietnam and in a way got us into it — is over there doing business with them. The United States has no intention of doing that, at least I don’t, until we have a full accounting of the POWs and MIAs.
So I do believe we’re making progress. We have more information by far, just in the last few months, than we’ve ever had before. We are trying to run down all these cases. But I am going to — all I can tell you is, I’m going to do the very best I can to run down every case and to make sure that no family is denied access to reasonable information. And I’ll follow up on that last question you made. But if you’ll give me whatever information you have, I’ll have it run down. We have people going over there all the time now and digging around. And we’re doing our best. And they’ve finally begun to open some files to us that have never before been opened.
Q Because the right questions have not been asked in the past.
THE PRESIDENT: You tell me what questions you want asked and I’ll get them asked.
Q If you would give the opportunity and promise to go into detail — I’ve been in this for 27 years with my brother, worked with both governments and the families and the American Legion and all the friends — if you would take some of our suggestions. Thank you.
(snipped the remaining that wasn’t related to this topic)
Thank you.
MODERATOR: Thank you very much, Mr. President. The people of San Diego thank you. (Applause.)
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you.
Excerpted from:
http://www.aiipowmia.com/wh/wh02.html
I think you might want to ping the vets. ;)
And yet by the late 80s Vietnam was one of the fastest growing economies in SE Asia. So to get this straight, ol' Dunc doesn't believe in free trade to create liberty, a capitalistic free market stance. How does Dunc think the idea of liberty and freedom gets to the people? By starving them out and establishing embargoes?
ping
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You are cordially invited to a breakfast
honoring
Republican Presidential Candidate
CONGRESSMAN DUNCAN HUNTER
Ranking Member of the House Armed Services Committee
Saturday, June 23, 2007
Sheraton San Diego Hotel and Marina
1380 Harbor Island Drive
San Diego, California
Check-in 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast 9:00 a.m.
$150 per person Response card enclosed
$1250 per table of ten Casual attire
For further information, please call (619) 463-3896
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