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Default The Audacity of Dopes

On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:51:39 -0500, John H wrote:


Find a lie and post it!


"Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine non-combat
mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade
on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. ...
Luckily for Cleland's political career and current pomposity about Bush,
he happened to do it while in Vietnam. ...

"Cleland ... didn't 'give his limbs for his country,' or leave them 'on
the battlefield.' There was no bravery involved in dropping a grenade on
himself with no enemy troops in sight."

Ann Coulter talking about triple amputee Max Cleland. The "non-combat"
mission was at Khe Sanh, April 8, 1968. Do you really think he was about
to go "drink beer with friends."