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As the nation was observing Veterans' Day on Nov. 11th, the Gore campaign was distributing a five page memo with instructions to local Democrat election officials in Florida on how to disqualify as many military absentee ballots as possible from overseas troops.

The instruction falsely stated that absence of a "postmark" on military ballots was grounds to throw them out.

In some counties half or nearly all of the military ballots were disqualified. Orange county, for instance rejected 117 of 147 overseas ballots.

This writer was shipped as a replacement radio operator in 1951 to an Army Signal Corps battalion that had suffered 90% casualties when the Communist Chinese troops entered the Korean conflict. It has been extremely difficult to refrain from criticizing, in this column, the Clinton/Gore administration as it climbed into bed with the Communist generals involved in that slaughter. But with the new revelations of the past week, a line has been crossed.

For partisan political advantage, the Gore campaign is willing to throw out the votes of those who are enduring sacrifice (some with families on food stamps) and putting their lives on the line to protect our right to vote. Gore operatives were convinced the military overseas vote would heavily favor Bush, so they decided to pull out all the stops and pressure local Democrats to arbitrarily invalidate military ballots.

The outrage at these acts should cross party lines. If Al Gore manages to win the vote in Florida, and thus the presidency, with this cowardly tactic (as well as other vote manipulations going on in the manual recount) impeachment proceedings should be instituted as soon as he takes office on January 20, 2001

It is ironic that George W. Bush may benefit from this controversy since he seems just as willing to climb into bed with the Chinese butchers as are Gore and Lieberman..