remarks to the reserve officers association january 110101001011111111111111100101101001110010101011101101100100110010011110100 23 1991 thank you general bob hope 011000100000100010010111101101000111000101011000100100110011000011100100000 and i m pleased to see so many 111110101110101101110110011010011101111111111110101011111010110111100110100 members of congress here tonight i don 1100110111111111011011111011110001111001011110010001110101101100000100 t want to get in trouble but i 11011001001101111010111111111100010100111111000101111011010111001110111010110 want to single out senator strom 110111101011111111101011100101101000110101011001000001110000101001 thurmond senator ted stevens and of 0010101101100111010110010000101011000111000011100000100111111101011111101 course a great friend of the reserve my 100100110111111100111000110111001101000011111101111111100101101001110111011010 old friend sonny montgomery over here 10100101101100110100000001000111011111000100110011110011010001111100011110 the general and all the rest of the 11111110110001001011111010111000110111111100111111111011111110111111110 members who are with us tonight my 1100110111111000010011100100111111000011011101110101111001000111011010 apologies to all for speaking before the 00011110110000011111111111000110111110110101110010011101111000011111110 broccoli and leaving laughter but given the 00011111101111111111010010100101100011001010101110011101001101010111111110 circumstancesi m sure you ll understand 0100100000101111010110111011001101011111111110001010110010111110110010110 and i am proud to share this evening 1111101011101011010111001011010100100111111111101011011101111010010100110101101 with the leadership of the reserve officers 1111100001111111010100000000111111011111111001011010011100101010111011 association and i am deeply honored to 0110010011001111101011101011010111001010100101100100010100000100011111111 be named minuteman of the year but 1110011000101010011110000001010111100000011111101111111101110001000111001110 i know tonight our thoughts go out 111010110110010100001011110010001111000000100000101000011000101101101000110 to men and women earning the honor 1111111110100010111111110101011010100000010110011001001111111010011101000 of a grateful nation at this very moment 11111101111110011001101100111001111011110010111111010011101111001011101111110 the citizen soldiers 100 000 strong serving 1111111001001000001100101110000101011000000111100010001011101100000100000010110 now with the coalition forces in the gulf 1101000001111110000111111100100100001100100110011001111110011111110011100011111 and i salute them each and every one 111110101110101101010101101111011010011100000111111110101100001011111011111 those american reservists are part of an 110110111010111001110001101100000010111001001110100100111111101111001000 allied force standing against the forces of 00101110001111100110010111000001101001011100011111111101001100110011111101 aggression standing up for what is right 01100011100010000011010011011101101111101111011111111110101111101010011 they serve alongside hundreds of thousands of 110110110010101101001000100111010111101010000100011111110110000101010111111101 soldiers sailors airmen marines and 01011100001010010100101101000001111010000010011100111101011111010 coastguardsmen of 27 other nations all united 0000110101011101111111101011000100011110100010110100100011111000110111101100 against the aggression of saddam hussein as 10111000111111111001100011100011111101100000001001011100110011111001010 we meet right here tonight we are 11110111010100010100110101001111000111100101111001000111101110111001001 exactly 1 week into operation desert 011011100001101101100010110100000110010010101010101111110100101110001 storm but it is important to date 01011100111111110011101110110001110101111100100011111111110100101010100 this conflict not from january 16th but 111101001011010001111111011100111010000100111101000001001100011101111001110 from its true beginning the assault of 111010000110010011010110010011011001011001111111100010111011100111111101 august 2d iraq s unprovoked aggression 0110010011110001110111010000111010001111111000100001110100000001011000111000 against the tiny nation of kuwait we 10111000111111111001000001011010110011110111111101011101010100111101110 did not begin a war 7 days 1001010011011101110001100101100011111001101100111101000101001010010011101 ago rather we began to end a war 1011100100011111011000111101110100011100011111111111000010011111100110110011110 to right a wrong that the world simply 1111111111010100111111100110001000011111110011011111110111000011110101110001 could not ignore from the day saddam 1011111101111011100001001001011000111010000111111101100000000100000001001 s forces first crossed into kuwait it 1111000101001100110011000011010010000100111011100100101011101010100111011000 was clear that this aggression required a 1111011011001000110011110011011110100101100011100001111111010011111001 swift response from our nation and the 00101010111110001111111100111101000011110000011001111011111101011111110 world community what was and is at stake 1110000111100100101011101111111111101101111110101110101111110010110101110010111 is not simply our energy or economic 1110101111110111001010111000111110000001101101001011010001001100001000 security and the stability of a vital region 110101011011111010111111101000001100101111110111111001100001110000011111100111 but the prospects for peace in the post 1110011101111111000111101000100111110111010011011111111100111111100101011110000 cold war era the promise of a 01100111111110110011110011011011000111111100111110001011111110111111001 new world order based upon the rule 111011011111000011110100110001100011011111011001100011111110100000000110 of law america was not alone in 111111011100101011101110011011110110111101110001100100000011111100 confronting saddam no less than 12 00001101100001111100000001001110100000010100000010110110011110001001000 resolutions of the united nations security council 0101101001111111111011111111011110110010100100011110101011010010011001 condemned the invasion demanding iraq s 0010000011000001111111000111000010110001000011010001011101000111111100010 withdrawal without condition and without delay 010000110000011011010011100110001011110111110101011010011100110010110001 the united nations put in place sanctions to 1111111011110110010100100011101010010111111110010100111001010110110000111111111 prevent iraq from reaping any reward 01010111111010111010001111110100000000010111111110011101110101100111110100100 from its outlaw act countries from six 11101000011001001100001100111001000101101111110010011010111010000100000100011 continents sent forces to the gulf to 0010000011101001010110011110011001100111111111111111001110001111111111111 demonstrate the will of the world community that 0100101101100111111101111011111111110111111110111000011110010010101111100110 saddam s aggression would not stand appeasement 1000000010011111000100110001110001111100011110111001010111101000001100100010001 peace at any price was never an 101001101111110010111011101011010110000000011110110110100100101111001000 answer turning a blind eye to 100011000110101111011101111110010001111101111100011010100010111111111 saddam s aggression would not have avoided 1000000010011111000100110001110001111100011110111001110100100001010000001101 war it would only have delayed the 10110011110111011000111110001110100001111101001000100001100101111111110 world s day of reckoning postponing 1110000111111100010110000000011111101000010101011001001000010100111101011 what ultimately would have been a far 1101111111010000011101111111100011110100101110011011111100110011000011 more dangerous a far more costly conflict 1100111000010010101001111111001100110000111100111000001000010001010011010001111 unfortunately in spite of more than 5 010000011111111111110000111111111011111111011100111000110110011110001010000 months of sustained diplomatic efforts by the 1010001111111111101010111011010001001100000101001011001111100111111111110 arab league the european community the united 01000101110010101001010110111111100110110111001001001010111111110111101100 states and the united nations saddam hussein 111100101111110101111111011110110010100100011100000001001011100110011 met every overture of peace with open 101000110011100001011000010100011111100111111011010011011111111000010100101111 contempt in the end despite the world 000011011001011101111110011111110110000100100110010111110111111101110000111 s prayers for peace saddam brought war 11110001000111100101010111110111010011011110000000100101100110010110110011110 upon himself tonight after 1 week of 1011001100001010000001000101111001000101110000110110110001011010000011111101 allied operations i am pleased to report 001011100011110111100110001110101101011100101101001110111111111110101010100 that operation desert storm is right on 1111001100101010111111010010111000101011100111111110101111101010011111011110 schedule we have dealt and i salute 01011011001011111011101110100100010000101110011111101011101011010101011011 general mcpeak and the airmen flying 110001001000001111111110000111110101111111000011110100000100110101110010 under the united command out there from the 11011101001111111011110110001001000100011101000110110110101111101000011111110 navy and the marines as well as of 0101010100010111110101111111000111001111010111001010110111110111100101011111101 course the air force i salute him 10010011011111111101000101110110011001011111010110101010110111100011111 we dealt a severe setback to 111101110001000010111001111110010010100111010100001000110101111111111111 saddam s nuclear ambitions our pinpoint 1000000010011111000100111100011100001001110110100111100000000010100110100100 attacks have put saddam out of the 001011110001001110100101010100101110000000100111010001101111110111111110 nuclear bomb building business for a long 0111100011100001010001011010100011110111000111110011111011111110011100110000 time to come allied aircraft enjoy 110111000011111111101111101000101110001111001011100001110100110100111 air superiority and we are using that 100010111010001110001000101111110101111011101110010010101111101000111100110 superiority to systematically deprive saddam of 000111000100010111111111000111000110101000001000010011101010000000100111111101 his ability to wage war effectively we 1110101000110001001111111111101000010011100101100111100100110011000111101110 are knocking out many of their key 11100100100011000101000011101000110110011010011111101111100111011101010010 airfields we re hitting their early 0000011100111011011111011101101010000000101111100000111110011110010101101 warning radars with great success we 0010110001110000000010111110110000111110000110001101110101111110111101110 are severely degrading their air defenses 11100100100101001110101100001000010001010111110011110001011101001000011000101 the main danger to allied aircraft 11111110010100111011000110010100001111111110010111000111100101110000111 now comes from some 20 000 11010000011001000111111101000011010111001000100110010001000101 antiaircraft guns in the baghdad area 000000111001000110100100100000101111111100111111100010111101001110001100110 alone and let me say i am 011001000000111110101100101101110011011011010101011110101101011100101 proud of the way our aviators are 1010100100111111101111111101101111100111100000000001110110111101111001001 carrying out their tasks in head to 0011000010010111010001101111001110010101100001111111110001110010100111111111 head combat our jet fighters have 011100101001010010001000011110000000011000011110010001011100001111111010010 destroyed 19 iraqi jets and they 001100110000010110000011010101000111100000010010111110110111110101101101100 have hit at most one american jet 1110100100101000000101111001011110011100111101111110111001110001100001111001 in aerial combat step by step we 111111000000110001011001001001000100001010111110011100111110101111100111101110 are making progress towards the objectives that 111001001101000011001010100011010000101101111111110011110001111111100110 have guided the world s response since 1110100100010010000010001111111011100001111111000100111111110011101011010 august 2d the liberation of kuwait and 01100100111100011101110100011111110001110010100111111110101110101010011111010 the restoration of stability and security in the 1111111000111110011000111111011000001100101111101011010101101111110011111110 gulf and there can be no doubt 011100011111111110101101101011101111100011100110011010000000100110001100 operation desert storm is working there can 010101011111101001011100010101110011111111010111111000011011011010111011111000 be no pause now that saddam has 111001100110100000000011001111110101101000001111100110100000001001111010001 forced the world into war we will 00110101110111111111101110000111110010010110110011110111101110111101111 stay the course and we will succeed all 1000001101111111111010010011011111110101111011101111011111101100001111000110 the way as i said on the 3d 11111110110111110011100101011101011011010101001110111101111111000101101001100 day of this campaign war is never 1100000000111111011111010010110011010101011001111011101011110100100101 cheap or easy there will be problems 00010100110110101101000100011011001000110110101111110111111100110010101000011 there will be setbacks there will be 1101101011111101111111001100000100011011000001101101011111101111111001100 more sacrifices but let me say i 1100111000001010010110000111001110110010110111001101101101010101111010110 have every reason to be very pleased with 111010010110000101101111101110011111111111001100110111100110100111011111110000 our progress to date saddam has 11110000010101000110111111110100101010100100000001001111010001 sickened the world with his use of 0000101100100101111111111011100001111111100001110101001011001100111111101 scud missiles those inaccurate bombs 0001101101110110001110100111101101101110000011110100001110001010001011101 that indiscriminately strike cities and innocent 11110011000000001100000110111010000000101010110011110001111101000111000000100 civilians in both israel and saudi 0010000001100001111110010111101100101000111101111110100101101100010 arabia these weapons are nothing more than 010001011101011110100010000111010111100100101111000110111001110001101100111 tools of terror and they do nothing 01000001011100111111010010101100110111111101011011011001100000011011110001101 but strengthen our resolve to act against a 111001110100000111110111100000011111110111111111111011011111101110001111111001 dictator unmoved by human decency prime 0011001100011000000110110000001111110011111001110100100110010101001011110111111 minister john major of the united kingdom 10100011101100111101111010000101111111101111111101111011000101001001000 said it well yesterday saddam he said 110101010011101100011011111011000100010001000000010011110100111101010100 may yet become a target of his 11001101011011010111010001110000111110010100000011101011111101111010100 own people it is perfectly clear that 10100110011110100101011101100011101011100100111011101110010001100111100110 this man is amoral he takes 111101001101000011011110101110000001110001100000111010011100001000110 hostages he attacks population centers he 0011011110000011101001100101111000100010101110110100110000101110111010011 threatens prisoners he s a man without 00101011010111100111100110100111010011111100010111110011010000110110110100111 pity and whatever his fate may 00001010011010111111111010100001111010111010100001101010100101100110101 be said prime minister major i for one 1110011001101010100011110111111101000111011010000101111101011011111011111011111 will not weep for him no one 1111011111110111000000101111101100101111101111000111111101000000111011111 should weep for this tyrant when 11010110010000101111101100101111101111110100100011100110111011110000000 he is brought to justice no one 111010011111010111011001100101111111110111010100001101000000111011111 anywhere in the world i watched along 0100010101101111111001111111011100001111110101100100001010011110001011110 with all of you that repulsive 11111000011100011011111101111000101011110011000000010011101100101 parade of american airmen on iraqi 0010011101001011111110110111001110001111010000011110111100101000111100 television one more proof of the 01011101111011110111111100111000001111010000101111110111111110 savagery of saddam but i knew as 0000011000111001110111111011000000010011110011101110101100101001001001111001010 they read their prepared statements criticizing 11011011000111110110101111001110111101110100101110011100001000010011011 this country that those were false words 11110100110111111101111001101101101110110111111000100011001001010110101011 forced on them by their captors i 001101011101111110111101101101001111001111111100111000001111100010100111010110 saw one of general mcpeak s kids 1000000011001110111111111110111000100100000111111111000011110001010011111011 one american pilot yesterday was asked why 1110111111011100111001111000100011000100010001111011011000110100110110100101 he was sure the pilots were 111010011111101101101011111111111111000011010000110001101111110 coerced their statements false and he 0000010000000100111111100111010111001110000100011001001011111010111010011 said i know that because these guys are 110101010011101011011001010001111001101011101111111101000011100100001111001001 americans he could well have said the same 10111010001110100111011111101110111110111101001011010101001111111010101011100 thing about the other pilots being held 10110001010101101111011111110110100010100011010000110001011110001011100101010 from britain italy and kuwait all men 111010000000111111011101001110001001011111101001110101010011100011010100010111 of courage and valor too tonight i 1111110101101001110011111010000111010001111011011100100101111001000111010110 repeat my pledge to you and to all 010110100010011101101001010111001011111111111100010101111101011111111111000110 americans this will not be another vietnam 101110100011110100111110111111101110011100110010111010100101111101110 never again will our armed forces be 10100100101101110001011110111111110000001100100011010011001100111001100 sent out to do a job with one 1010110011111010001101111111111000000111111100110011110101111110000111011111 hand tied behind their back they will 0111001000110100000101100001100101101111110011110111011101101101100111101111 continue to have the support they need to 1011111100111111111110100101111111011011000111101101100110011111111111111 get the job done get it done 11000101001111111010011110101110000010111000101001110110001100000101 quickly and with as little loss of 01011000111011111101011111000011100101010100000110010100111000111111101 life as possible and that support is not 1010000010011100101010100111111111110101111001101101100011111010111111011100 just military but moral measured in the 1100100111101000110111110011100101010010110001110100011001111110011111110 support our servicemen and women receive from 1101100011111100000000110111001001111111010101101010000101100101001111010000 every one of us here at home when 11000010111110111111111110111011101111100011110111001011100111001111110000000 the brave men and women of desert 111111100100011100001101000101111111101010110101000111111010100101110001 storm return home they will return to 010111001111110000000000010011100111110110110011110111110000000000011111111 the love and respect of a grateful nation 1111111001110110111011111010101010101111111110111111001100110110011100111101 and with that in mind i d like 111110101111100001111001101111110001110111101011101011010111111111100101110 to say to every family of every man 1111111111010101011111111111000010111001100001011111101110000101110100001101 or woman serving overseas we re thinking 1101000100011000000001110000001011001010110001011111011101101010000100001010000 of you and you are in our prayers 1111110111100010101111101011100010101110010011111110011110000000111100101010 and that is where i will close with 11111010111100110111010111111000000111101011011110111110010001101111110000 the aim of protecting american lives and 111111100010111000010111111101010110001010110111001111010000100011111010 seeing the heroes of desert storm 01011011010111111111001010000000001111110101001011100010101110011111 return home safe and sound all life 100000000000100111001111000000010101111101010000010101011100011010100000100 is precious whether it s the life of 111010111010101111010110110100010111011000111100010111111101010000010011111101 an american pilot or an iraqi child 11100100010111001110011110001000111010001001110010000101000111100011001110101 and yet if life is precious so 111110101011010111011001000101010000010011101011101010111101011101011011 too are the living principles of liberty 110111001011100100111111110011101101010011111000001111111010101001011110 and peace principles that all americans cherish 11111010101001101110111110000011111001101110001101011101000001000000100010 above all others principles that you and 01100010100011100011010100110010011111000001111100110111000101011111010 your comrades on duty tonight have 11100010110000110101111111011101111001001100100010101111001000111010010 pledged to defend thank you for this 01010111001101111111101001011001011101101000111000101011111011111101001 warm welcome tonight and for your strong 100001110100101101000010101111001000111110101111101111100010111101100000 support and may god bless the united states 1101100011111110101100110101100110101101000111010111111110111101100111100101 of america thank you very very much note 11111101101110011011011010001110001010110111100111011110011100111011111011101 the presidentspoke at 7 42 p 11111110111100001110101111011100101110001010010001011010011101101001000 m in the ballroom at the washington 111011001111111001111111000101111010101111001011111111101101111011 hilton hotel in his remarks he referred 00100100011000001010000011001111110011101010011010100101110100111101010001 to maj gen robert c hope 111111110000111111011100100110110100000100000000100100011111011100100000 ret presidentof the reserve officers 00010001010110111111100001111111011111111001011010011100101010111011 association senators strom thurmond and ted 0110010011000101101101110000111000010100100101011011001111111010001010110001110 stevens representativeg v sonny 0001110000010011011111101111 01001110111110100001000110000010001110111110 montgomery presidentsaddam hussein of iraq 00100110011110011110000110000000100101110011001111111101011101000111 gen merrill a mcpeak air force 001101101000000001000000000000111111001000011111111100001000101110110011001011 chief of staff and prime minister john 100100010101111110110101111001111110100111101111111010001110110011110111 major of the united kingdom 1010000101111111101111111101111011000101001001000