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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