This is for Patriot. I have tried to find the transcript of his speech, to no avail. If anyone has it, I’d appreciate you sending it to me at questiongirl@blueherald.com. Too bad McGovern isn’t still in the Senate!

Former Sen. George McGovern gave one hell of a speech at the National Press Club in Washington last Friday, but it didn’t seem to get much attention.

The 84-year old South Dakota Democrat and 1972 presidential candidate, whose antiwar campaign was snowed under by Richard Nixon, gave another scorching antiwar speech, this time against the Iraq war.

He said he hopes to live to be 100 because he wants to “get American soldiers out of the Iraqi hellhole Bush-Cheney and their neo-conservative theorists have created in what was one called the cradle of civilization. ”

McGovern, who served 18 years in the Senate before losing his seat to Republican Jim Abdnor in 1980, hasn’t been heard from much lately, but he was definitely front and center as he challenged President Bush by directly addressing him with “some impertinent questions.”

McGovern, whose own military credentials are unassailable — he flew 35 missions as a B-25 pilot in World War II — asked a series of 16 questions of Bush, ranging from “How can you sleep at night knowing that 3,014 young Americans have died in a war you mistakenly ordered?,” to “… after such needless death and destruction, first in the Vietnamese jungle and now in the Arabian desert, can you order 21,500 more American troops to Iraq?”

Read more at the HuffingtonPost