Quaint ...

This from a man who never put his ass on the line for anything in his life. I know a lot of guys who had "better things to do" during Vietnam and came home in boxes because they couldn't weasel one deferment, let alone five:

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The standards of this Academy only highlight the deepest and most fundamental difference between the United States and our sworn enemies. A month ago, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Pace, spoke to this class about each officer's duty to follow a moral compass in all of his or her actions. In these four years you have learned the rules of warfare and professional military ethics. You've studied the tenets of morality. You've reflected on the seven Army values: of loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage. You have lived by a code of honor, and internalized that code as West Point men and women always do.

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Who in Hell let him speak to the Cadet Corps anyway? Were I one of them, I'd take being lectured on "loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, and personal courage" by Vice President Cheney as an insult. As a former enlisted man, I can't help but laugh at the irony.