panderer, as defined by Webster's Dictionary:
1. a person who furnishes clients for a prostitute or supplies persons for illicit
sexual intercourse: procurer; pimp.
2. a person who caters to or profits from the weaknessess or vices of others.
3. a go-between in amorous intrigues.
4. to act as a pander: cater basely.
The following article exudes the ultimate in hypocrisy!
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TUESDAY
APRIL 18
2000
ELECTION 2000
Al Gore as commander in chief
VP talks with military editors
about his plans for armed forces
By Jon E. Dougherty
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
Calling President Clinton "an outstanding
commander in chief," Vice President Al Gore
said if he is elected to assume the role of
supreme U.S. forces commander in November,
his main military priorities would be to raise
pay, prioritize U.S. military involvement around
the world and maintain an increase in defense
spending.
Gore spoke at the U.S. Naval Observatory April
16 to editors of the various Military Times
magazines -- the Army Times, Navy Times,
Marine Corps Times and the Air Force Times.
He said that, although the Clinton
administration had recently approved "the
largest military pay increase in almost 20 years,"
too many military personnel and their families
are still qualified for welfare benefits.
"Specifically, in a Gore administration, there
will not be a single member of the armed
services paid so low that they are eligible for,
that he or she is eligible for, food stamps," the
vice president said, noting that 9,000 of 2.4
million service members still qualify for
government assistance, even after the
administration's pay increase this year.
"I want to end that," said Gore, adding, "I don't
want to wait for the beginning of the next
administration to end it. I will be making
specific recommendations as a member of this
administration on how I think that can be
ended."
Saying there "has to be a very clear rationale that
involves a strategic interest of the United States"
before placing U.S. forces in harm's way, Gore
said he would base any decision to deploy U.S.
military might on key factors such as:
Is there an important national security
interest?
Are there allies?
Is military action or deployment the only
way to protect the specific national
security interest?
If force is used, can it actually achieve the
stated objective?
If undertaken, will the mission have costs
that are not disproportionate to the
objective that we desire to attain?
What special factors might be involved
that are unique to the circumstances that
are under analysis?
"These and other questions should be
approached very, very seriously and carefully
before any of our military forces are deployed
overseas," Gore told the military news editors.
Responding to a question about the perception
that the Clinton administration often has
alienated military officials and destroyed much
of the trust between the White House and the
Pentagon, Gore said, "I think President Clinton
has been an outstanding commander in chief,"
adding that Clinton "has invested an enormous
amount of time and effort in communicating
with the members of our uniformed military
services and with the civilian leadership in the
Pentagon and visiting military personnel in the
field."
As commander in chief himself, Gore said he
would "build upon that record" and "would
want to draw upon my own experience as an
enlisted man in the United States Army."
Gore told the defense editors that as an enlisted
man during the Vietnam war, he and wife
Tipper lived in a trailer near Ft. Rucker, Ala.,
the Army's helicopter training facility. "Often
our clothes on the clothesline were blown full of
red by the helicopters coming in to land right
next to the trailer park.
"We have great memories of wonderful times,
but we also have memories of close neighbors
who had a bunch of kids and were under stress
and had trouble making ends meet," he said. "I
know what it is like for a spouse to say goodbye
when you are deployed overseas and face all of
the uncertainty that accompanies that."
He added, "I would want to draw on the
experiences that I have, limited though they
were, to establish a close bond of understanding
with the men and women in uniform."
Gore spent slightly less than six months in
Vietnam, in a rear-area support group, as a
correspondent for Stars and Stripes, a GI
publication covering the war. Critics have
charged that he spent a much shorter stint
overseas than most other GIs because of
influence exerted by his father, Albert Gore, Sr.,
who was a U.S. senator from Tennessee at the
time.
Meanwhile, Texas Gov. George W. Bush, the
presumptive Republican nominee for president
and Gore's chief rival for the Oval Office, has
said he favors a $1 billion increase in military
pay and benefits, as well as an immediate 2.5
percent pay increase for military personnel.
Bush officials cite research showing that 12,000
military personnel -- more than those cited by
Gore -- are still eligible for government
economic aid and food stamps, despite the
administration's budgeted pay increases.
Defense editors asked Gore if he had similar
budget increase figures in mind, but the vice
president refused to make specific pledges.
"I think we have to analyze that in conjunction
with the military leadership, not in conjunction
with political advisers," Gore said. "I am in
favor of continuing pay increases," reminding
editors again that the Clinton administration
"just passed the largest since 1981," thereby
reversing "the downward trend that began in the
Bush administration."
However, Gore said, "to put a specific number
on it would not be the right approach, because if
you are going to do it right you need to do it in
careful consultation with each of the services to
look at the priorities, to look at specific areas of
need.
"I am prepared to make some specific
commitments," he added, but declined to
provide actual numbers. He only reiterated his
pledge to keep uniformed service members
above the poverty level and off the welfare rolls.
Gore also said he favors the current military
deployments to Bosnia, Kosovo and the Persian
Gulf, declining to say whether or not he would
support withdrawing U.S. forces from those
areas and promising only to "take a hard look"
at the current operational tempo of forces from
all service branches.
"I think we have to evaluate each of those
commitments in light of the objectives that still
remain to be achieved, the successes that have
already been earned and the options available. I
support all of those missions. I supported all of
them at their initiation," he said.
Meanwhile, Bush said he supports "rebuilding
America's military strength to keep the peace"
and would "maintain longstanding U.S.
commitments, but order an immediate review of
overseas deployments in dozens of countries,
with the aim of replacing uncertain missions
with well-defined objectives."
The Texas governor also said he would push
America's allies to shoulder more of the
economic burden of providing for their own
defense and would not allow military
technology to "skip a generation," pledging
instead to increase the Pentagon's research and
development budgets.
Gore also said he would not "skip a generation
of modernization," calling the idea "silly" and
"uninformed."
That concept, he said, was "a dangerous idea for
the men and women who have to rely on the
technological edge that we have maintained in
each generation of weaponry."
On the issue of a commander in chief's personal
conduct, Gore told the defense news editors that
he believed "the American people always hold
the president ... to a high standard."
In a reference to Clinton's impeachment, Gore
suggested that the president's scandal-ridden
administration could not be held in check by
"the Uniform Code of Military Justice, but rather
the ballot box, a place where sophisticated
judgments are made that balance personal
factors against all manner of policy judgments.
And the Constitution insists that there be no
other way."
In a Sept. 23, 1999, speech at The Citadel, one of
the military's most prestigious colleges, Bush
said, "Nothing would be better for morale than
clarity and focus from the commander in chief,"
adding that a future Bush administration would
work to change the military's structure while
respecting its culture. "Our military culture was
formed by generations of trial and tradition --
codes and loyalties born of two centuries' worth
of experience."
For his part, prospective Reform Party nominee
Patrick J. Buchanan advocates fewer overseas
commitments for U.S. forces, and "a more
traditional American foreign policy for more
traditional times to keep us out of the kind of
wars that have destroyed every other great
power in history."
Buchanan authored a controversial book last
year entitled, "America: A Republic, Not an
Empire," in which he states that the United
States was not compelled to go to war against
Nazi Germany in World War II because Hitler
didn't threaten U.S. national security on the
level of Japan. He believes current U.S. overseas
commitments are extravagant and unnecessary.
"When U.S. interests are threatened, or our
citizens attacked, or our honor impugned,
America will fight -- but we will not commit our
forces carelessly or sacrifice American soldiers
to save the faces of foolhardy interventionists,"
Buchanan said.
As president, Buchanan said he would
"withdraw from all United Nations and global
organizations that do not serve U.S. interests,"
adding that "not one dime from the International
Monetary Fund will go to prop up corrupt
foreign regimes or countries hostile to the
United States. And not one United States soldier
will be forced to swear allegiance to an
international organization."
Jon E. Dougherty is a staff reporter for
WorldNetDaily.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_dougherty/20000418_xnjdo_al_gore_as.shtml
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they're simply two wings of the same bird of prey.
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