VoteVets, eh? Jonn will be interested to get this one.
It seems pretty clear that the Superintendent offered the opportunity for Boykin to un-invite himself, rather than the alternative of pulling the invitation. I don't know much about votevets.org other than what the linked article said and that their web site says they're a PAC.
They take a decidedly different tone than the OP.
Plans for a talk at West Point by a retired general known for his harshly anti-Muslim remarks were abruptly canceled on Monday after a growing list of liberal veterans' groups, civil liberties advocates and Muslim organizations called on the Military Academy to rescind the invitation.
Lt. Gen William G. Boykin "has decided to withdraw speaking at West Point's National Prayer Breakfast" on Feb. 8, said a statement issued Monday by the academy's office of public affairs. "In fulfilling its commitment to the community, the United States Military Academy will feature another speaker for the event."
General Boykin, a longtime commander of Special Operations forces, first caused controversy after the Sept. 11 attacks when, as a senior Pentagon official, he described the fight against terrorism as a Christian battle against Satan. His remarks, made in numerous speeches to church groups, werepublicly repudiated by President George W. Bush, who argued that America's war was not with Islam but with violent fanatics.
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****ing rat bastards. Every damned one of them.
