On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:33:05 -0500, "Reginald P. Smithers III, Esq."
wrote:

thunder wrote:
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."

Actually, according to Max Cleland, that is exactly what he was doing,
but according to an eyewitness, it was a rookie private who stated he
dropped the grenade, not Cleland. Cleland picked up the grenade
because he thought it was his, and he always bent the pins so they would
not go off accidentally.

No - grenades come from the factory with the pins bent - Cleland
straightened his like a lot of us did.

What Cleland did was pretty stupid.

--

"Never fight an inanimate object."

P.J. O'Rourke