Buchanan on National Defense

Text excerpted from Pat Buchanan's speech at the AARP Conference, Bedford, NH
January 26, 1996

Those young Americans were shot down in that friendly fire
incident in Iraq.  Sixteen bodies were brought home to Dover
Air Force Base.  Vice President of the United States issued a
formal statement.  He said the parents of these young
Americans, can be proud, they died in the service of the
United Nations.  My friends they didn't take an oath to the
United Nations, they took an oath to you and me, constitution
of the United States.  When I become President of the United
States, never again will young Americans be sent into battle,
except under American officers and to fight under an American
flag.[applause]