Got the following from a friend who got it from a friend in the Naval Reserve. Don't know if someone else has posted this before; if so, forgive me for taking up bandwidth. [:)]

[b]Gen. Hawley speaks - it's not PC!!![/b]

USAF 4 Star Speaks Out

For those of you who don't know who General Hawley is, he is a newly
retired 4 star general who commanded Air Combat Command. These are good
words and true.

Speech from the former ACC commander (now retired and not restricted to
being politically correct),

Gen Hawley:

"Since the attack, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such
surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard them too.

Here they are:

1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative." Listen
carefully: We're good, they're evil, nothing is relative. Say it with me
now and free yourselves. You see, folks, saying "We're good" doesn't
mean, "We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy
on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and
blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of freedom,
charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open
all the borders on Earth and see what happens. In about half a day, the
entire world would be a ghost town, and the United States would look
like one giant line to see "The Producers.

" 2) "Violence only leads to more violence." This one is so stupid you
usually have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it.
Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already:
Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky,
half measures lead to more violence.

However, complete, fully thought-through, professional, well executed
violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the
other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial," not
"reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead. D-E
--Well, you get the idea.

3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community has failed us."
For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the
ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for not
protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee
Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided
that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy
satellites. "After all," they reasoned, "you can see a license plate
from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a
license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans
is not possible with satellites. You have to use other humans.

When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's
the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans
into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a guy who looks
like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a
coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet
that bin Laden fella. "Well, you can, but all you'd be doing is giving
the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years.

4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at
us." Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a
desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than
Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless
people, you see, are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in
power.

Mohammed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into
the killing grounds (I'm sorry, one of the "alleged hijackers,"
according to CNN they stopped using the word "terrorist," you know), is
the son of a Cairo surgeon. But you knew this, too.

In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war
were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could
think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking.
At least, that was my excuse. It's the same today. Take the
Anti-Global-Warming (or is it World Trade? Oh-who-knows-what-the-hell
-they-want demonstrators) They all charged their black outfits and plane
tickets on dad's credit card before driving to the airport in their SUV's.

5) "Any profiling is racial profiling." Who's killing us here, the
Norwegians? Just days after the attack, the New York Times had an
article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden
family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff,
never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm
crushed. I think we're all crushed. Please come back. With a cherry on
top? Why don't they just change their names, anyway? It's happened in
the past.

Think about it. How many Adolfs do you run into these days? Shortly
after that, I remember watching TV with my jaw on the floor as a
government official actually said, "That little old grandmother from
Sioux City could be carrying something." Okay, how about this: No, she
couldn't. It would never be the grandmother from Sioux City. Is it even
possible? What are
the odds? Winning a hundred Powerball lotteries in a row? A thousand? A
million?

And now a Secret Service guy has been tossed off a plane and we're all
supposed to cry about it because he's an Arab? Didn't it have the
tiniest bit to do with the fact that he filled out his forms
incorrectly- - three times? And then left an Arab history book on his
seat as he strolled off the plane? And came back? Armed? Let's please
all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and think practically.
I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four
seconds away from hitting Mt. Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy
next to me to say, Well, at least we didn't offend them."

SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered
brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their
immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political
science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper
sticker that says, "No More Hiroshimas"? I wish I had one that says,
"You First. No More Pearl Harbors."

Dick Hawley

Wow...good speech...and I was starting to think Hackworth was the only one with the balls to speak out......

Especially #3!

I was stationed in DC during Carter's reign and the General hit the nail on the head. The argument at the time was that Human Intelligence (HumInt) was too expensive and unreliable. Satellite and other types of electronic intelligence was much cheaper over the long run, and since you didn't have to bribe it, train it, and make sure it didn't change sides, it was more reliable.

At the time, the politicians where all cutting budgets and eliminating funding for HumInt. The 'troops', including CIA where screaming that the electronic spies were not going to provide the information required. The politicians screamed back that it saved money.

I surprised that this fact hasn't had more 'air time'. The intelligence failures that occurred where not due to ineptitude of US Intelligence Agencies, but was a failure that occurred over 25 years ago. Just another case of politicians killing people and blaming others.

Urban legend:

[url] http://www.snopes.com/rumors/hawley.htm[/url]

It was a column by humorist Larry Miller which appeared in The Daily Standard on 14 January 2002; the version circulating on the Internet omits the opening and closing paragraphs which are worth reading and on the Urban Legends website, as well as commentary by General Hawley (yes, he really does exist).