Posted on 08/19/2004 10:48:44 AM PDT by BMC1
Sen. Tom Harkin, who called Vice President Dick Cheney a "coward" on Tuesday for not serving in Vietnam, has been exposed for lying about his own Vietnam service - or, rather, lack thereof.
"Senator Harkin is a proven fabricator when it comes to his own Vietnam-era record," reports the Wall Street Journal in Thursday editions. Revisiting its own 1979 report on the tart-tongued Iowa Democrat, the Journal notes:
"In 1979, Mr. Harkin, then a congressman, participated in a round-table discussion arranged by the Congressional Vietnam Veterans' Caucus. 'I spent five years as a Navy pilot, starting in November of 1962,' Mr. Harkin said at that meeting, in words that were later quoted in a book, Changing of the Guard, by Washington Post political writer David Broder. 'One year was in Vietnam. I was flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. I did no bombing.'"
The Journal continues:
"That clearly is not an accurate picture of his Navy service. . . . Mr. Harkin's Navy record shows his only decoration is the National Defense Service Medal, awarded to everyone on active service during those years. He did not receive either the Vietnam Service medal or the Vietnam Campaign medal, the decorations given to everyone who served in the Southeast Asia theater."
"It turned out Mr. Harkin had not seen combat and was stationed in Japan."
In fact, rather than doing his part to beat back global Communism, Harkin was actually an aider and abettor to Moscow's cause.
Unnoted in today's Journal report; in 1986 Harkin famously traveled to Managua, Nicaragua to assure Fidel Castro's proxy Daniel Ortega that Senate Democrats were working overtime to thwart President Reagan's efforts to bring Democracy to the region.
With him on the mission - fellow peacenik Sen. John Kerry.
Like the whale kennedy said, "Lie after lie after lie after lie after lie after lie."
Don't they know, "The truth shall set you free."
so now we have another dem on record lying about military service. He is definatly presidential candidate material.
Another lying 'Rat politician lying about their service in Viet Nam...
why am I not surprised...
Maybe I should run for office just so we can have at least one person in Congress who actually served at least one complete tour of duty in the Viet Nam war in C O M B A T !
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Is this equivalent to Air National Guard service? I understand that there are those who claim Guard status is about the equivalent to this plane ferrying duty.
Apicture of a Commie and two traitors.
Three commies. I don't know about the broad, though. ;)
Shameless and pathetic.
bump
She may be related to Kerry she has a horse face and I think if you listen hard you can hear her neighing.
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