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Chairman, Committee to Draft Schwarzkopf
Committee
Announces Draft General Norman Schwarzkopf for President
Steve Brown, a veteran of the Vietnam Conflict, owner of Adams
Recreational Vehicles in Santa Barbara, California, and a concerned
American, today announced the formation of the Committee to Draft
Schwarzkopf for President.
Mr. Brown told friends and fellow veterans that he was become more
and more concerned over the last year with the war in Iraq, which
seems to be taking on the form of a long term conflict much like
Vietnam. He is further concerned over the lack of medical care
offered to veterans of the war. Hundreds of injured servicemen
have been warehoused in below standard facilities and then forced to
drop their claims for further services in return for small sums of
money.
Mr. Brown served in the United States Army during the Vietnam
Conflict and has since then donated extensively to the well being of
America's veterans through such organizations as the Benevolent and
Protective Order of Elks.
"This is not what America's military is for. America owes
a debt to its service people and we
need a man in the White
House who will make sure the right thing is done. The General
is the man to do the job for the military and for all Americans.
He is the kind of individual we can trust because he is competent and
without political ambitions."
Mr. Brown then called on his fellow veterans to help him recall the
General to duty and to serve as chapter leaders in their local areas.
"Contact us through our website at draftnorman.com. It is not
fancy but it is up and you can get through to us there. "
"I am sure the General will do his duty. After he does
that he will be calling all of the shots. So write him at the
Nature Conservancy in Arlington, Virginia. We hope that this
organization we are starting will then become his grassroots campaign
committee. We are here for him just like we were here for our
country when she called."
The following is the text of the letter Mr. Brown himself mailed to
General Schwarzkopf at the Nature Conservancy.
When asked if he thought there was any chance the General would
declare, especially this late, Brown said, "He knows his duty.
He also knows that no other man is qualified for this assignment.
He will hear this call to that duty and accept because he knows it
comes from the hearts of his fellow veterans."
Letter sent to General
Norman Schwarzkopf by Steve Brown.
Dear General,
For the past many months I have been watching events unfold and
worrying about what would become of the country I love. America
is not just a country to me, it is the best promise for the future of
people everywhere. Freedom, enterprise, equality and hard work
have created America as a beacon to the world. Here, a people
first wondered if individual freedom was possible.
The idea that such a legacy could be contorted to other ends is heart
rending.
We cannot let that happen.
America needs you. Americans need a President they can trust;
someone who has earned the friendship of nations in the Middle-East
so that the conflict there can be resolved without further
compromising the honor and integrity of our nation. We need an
individual who is capable, committed, and who understands the office
of President not as a perk to profit his friends but as a trust
making its occupant the servant of all Americans.
We need a man who has proven he can successfully draw together
disparate individuals from very different perspectives to take
effective action, both in the Middle-East and here at home.
We are spending ourselves into a servitude to debt unparalleled in
American history. Our great-grandchildren, yours and mine, will
be paying for the adventures lived out by the present administration
and its failed policies. This administration is canceling out
the cherished rights of all Americans, the rights that have kept
us free for over 200 years.
You are the right man to take up this fight precisely because you do
not want it. You can serve all of the people and our nation
because you are not a politician nor ever wanted to be. Your
life has been dedicated to duty; you have put that life on the line
for your country over and over again as you served the best interests
of a free people. You served with distinction and courage in
Vietnam and you served your country again, helping to bind up the
wound within the military that Vietnam had caused. As a veteran
of that war, no matter what we call it now, I understand the
greatness in you. You have made clear by the content of
your service that you understand what really matters by including in
that duty the well being of military families. Ordinary lives
matter; each of us matters. Your affirmation of that rings true
and clear through your actions. In matters of simple justice
and honor you did not hesitate to act.
Now we need your honor because justice matters to each of us.
your life speaks a message that all Americans can hear, understand
and trust. It is a message that can bind up the wounds of 9/11
and create a true justice and peace.
You share the concern for our nation at this time of crisis, a crisis
brought on by those who have been trusted with authority they were
unequal to exercising in the best interests of all Americans.
The more I find out about those in power the more frightened I am for
my country.
The
America that nurtured us is in danger. We are facing the stark
possibility of the end of freedom as it was visioned by our
Founders.
You can win this election because the American people recognize
integrity when they really see it. They hunger for that and for
the honor you have made your life's work. You possess a rare
courage that speaks a message that is more than just the political
rhetoric we have learned to know as mostly posturing and lies.
I
know this is not what you want to do. But it is what you must
do. No man of your caliber can say no when his country so
desperately needs him.
It will
be difficult. It will be as trying as any campaign you have
waged, but it is a campaign that also opens up to all Americans the
hope of a larger freedom and prosperity; a future of hope for all of
our children. Under your leadership we can renew the
national honor that has been so badly compromised. You can
reaffirm our American Heritage for freedom so that none may doubt.
Please accept this call to service from me, a fellow veteran.
With sincere respect and
confidence in the flag we both served.
Signed, Steve Brown
