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Its from an article written on August 23, 2000
Which now makes it history and no longer news!!!


WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 23
2000
IN THE MILITARY
American flag dips
to Vietnam, China?
Naval officers claim Clinton to change
regulation to placate totalitarian regimes
By Geoff Metcalf
© 2000 WorldNetDaily.com
President Clinton reportedly plans to visit China and Vietnam before the 
end of his term, and, according to high-ranking Navy officers, the 
commander in chief will alter long-standing naval regulations to allow the 
American flag to fly below that of Vietnam when he sails into the communist 
nation's territorial waters on a U.S. Navy ship.
Highly placed Navy sources who spoke on condition of anonymity believe this 
action on the president's part would further devastate already tenuous Navy 
morale.
As part of his swan song, Clinton reportedly intends to visit two ports 
aboard Naval vessels. Trip one takes him to the People's Republic of China, 
which has a regulation that no war ship of any country may enter its 
territorial waters flying a flag higher than that of the People's Republic 
of China. According to one Navy source, China and the U.S. have effected a 
compromise whereby both flags -- the U.S. and the PRC -- will be flown from 
U.S. naval vessels at the same height.
But visceral outrage is resulting from a proposed change to Navy 
regulations that would result in the American flag being displayed 
subordinate to the flag of Vietnam.
Navy regulations and tradition prescribe that no country's flag will be 
displayed in a superior position to the U.S. flag. However, Vietnam's rules 
reportedly demand that the Vietnamese flag shall always fly in a superior 
position to any other country's flag. High-ranking naval officers, speaking 
on condition that their names not be published, say the reason for all the 
alarm, anger and career-threatening rhetoric is that Clinton allegedly has 
either ordered, or is about to order, the secretary of the Navy to amend 
regulations to permit the Vietnamese flag to be displayed over the U.S. flag.
"I'd like to blow the g-d-thing up!" said one frustrated officer.
The United States Navy Regulations began with the enactment by the 
Continental Congress of the "Rules for the Regulation of the Navy of the 
United Colonies" on Nov. 28, 1775. So a long and proud history bolsters the 
long-held Navy tradition that no country's flag will fly higher than that 
of the United States.
Commenting on the report, Col. David Hackworth, America's most decorated 
living war veteran, said, "What's new? Clinton has done everything else to 
dishonor the flag, why not make it number two?"
He added, "Congress ought to pull this traitor's travel plug ... now."
Calls to the Navy Staff Operations and Special Events office were referred 
to the Public Affairs Office, which then referred WND to the news desk. 
When WND outlined the scenario, the spokesman -- whose first comment was 
"Wow" -- later called back to say, "We haven't been able to find anything 
on it yet, but we're trying to run the story to ground."
Adm. Thomas B. Fargo, commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, 
reportedly has visited the People's Republic of China recently also, 
although the reason for the trip is not known.
If you'd like to sound off on this flap over the U.S. flag, go to today's 
WorldNetDaily poll.
Geoff Metcalf is a staff reporter for WorldNetDaily.
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I'd like to blow the g-d-thing up!
-- Officer in the U.S. Navy, on the prospect of the Vietnamese flag being 
flown higher than the American flag when President Clinton sails on a U.S. 
Navy ship to Vietnam before leaving office
Navy regulations and tradition prescribe that no country's flag will be 
displayed in a superior position to the U.S. flag.
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