On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:53:35 -0600, thunder wrote:

On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 04:46:03 -0500, HK wrote:


Reggie read something on the internet and believed it.

It really wasn't about the beer, or the grenade. Imagine a Liberal
trashing a soldier that lost three limbs in the service of this country.
That's what Saxby Chambliss did, and also Ann Coulter. I used the quotes
to point out that some on the right, have lost their moral compass, if
they ever had one.

Does the loss of limbs give a person the right to do or say anything they
wish?

Where is the 'trashing' of the man? He did something stupid. He was
certainly not a hero.

"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."

More, from another source:

"Cleland may be the bravest, most patriotic man alive, but the terrible
wounds he suffered from the grenade accident don’t testify to those traits.
Coulter has a point when she mocks Terry McAuliffe for strongly implying
that Cleland lost his limbs in combat. He didn’t, which is why he wasn’t
awarded a Purple Heart."
--
John H

* Some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them. *