-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! Clinton Says Goodbye to U.S. Troops Updated 8:13 PM ET January 5, 2001 By DEB RIECHMANN, Associated Press Writer ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) - A saxophonist played a soulful rendition of "America the Beautiful" as President Clinton bid farewell Friday to members of the armed forces. "We live in peace, in no small measure, because your courage and strength makes peace a wiser choice than war," Clinton said. Eight years ago, Clinton began his presidency with the controversial "don't ask-don't tell" policy on gays in the military. Late Friday afternoon, he said goodbye to the troops, noting that his administration had reversed a decade and a half decline in defense spending and had obtained the largest single increase in military compensation in a generation. The strength of the U.S. military is just as important in peace as it is in war, Clinton said in a speech in a darkened auditorium at Fort Myer where spotlights shone brightly on ceremonial guards from the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard and the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. "No one can ever write a full account of the wars that were never fought, the loses that were never suffered, the tears that were never shed because the men and women of the United States military risked their lives for peace," Clinton said at the armed forces full honor review ceremony for the outgoing president. "None of us should every forget that." Clinton was joined by Defense Secretary William Cohen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Henry Shelton and 850 members of the military who filled the bleachers of Conmy Hall. The auditorium was hushed in silence as the president, with a stone-faced expression, reviewed the troops that stood stiffly at attention. The president said the work of the troops has helped build a more united Europe and foster peace on the Korean peninsula and a climate of reconciliation across the last dividing line of the Cold War. He said troops in the Persian Gulf have helped keep Iraq from regaining its capability to threaten the world or its neighbors with weapons of mass destruction. "Thanks to you, arm-in-arm with an expanded NATO, ethnic cleansing and slaughter in the former Yugoslavia, in Bosnia and Kosovo has ended," Clinton said. "Refugees have returned to their homes. Freedom has a chance to flower." After he spoke, each unit paraded before the reviewing stand as the U.S. Marine Band played the theme songs for each of the five armed services. Afterward, the band played "Stars and Stripes Forever" and a relaxed rendition of "America the Beautiful." Clinton smiled and gently rocked his head as Staff Sgt. Gregory Ridlington of Spokane, Wash., played a solo on his saxophone. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
