EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND

",,, let's hope they've got all they're going to get."

There is always the "Wide Load" signs for them to carry.

But only to travel during daylight hours....

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This looks more like a gig ~you~ would fancy!

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I'd be curious to actually KNOW what his heroics were involved with his particular war incidents.

He got a silver star in an action not related to his war wounds. I hope we have the good sense to keeping our criticism to his actions as a Senator and Kerry supporter and lay off his service in Vietnam. However he lost his limbs, it was while doing his duty and unlike John Kerry he has never lied about what happened to him.

"This looks more like a gig ~you~ would fancy!"

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What is morst informative is that the Cleland visit to Crawford was a big 24 hour story..perfect "political theater"..yet from Friday through the weekend..not ONE mention of it anywheres...

Thanks, I will join you there later.

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"What is morst informative is that the Cleland visit to Crawford was a big 24 hour story..perfect "political theater"..yet from Friday through the weekend..not ONE mention of it anywheres..."

Lefties cannot see beyond the end of their noses. Emotions run their lives, like unruly children.

I'm watching ret Gen McPeak on FOx as I type..If this is the best Kerry can get to defend him...he's toast..BTW..this guy McPeak is Slade Gorton's twin...

Poor Max, the "Stepin Fetchit" of the Kerry campaign.

More like second base of the Kerry campaign.

"I'm watching ret Gen McPeak on FOx as I type..If this is the best Kerry can get to defend him...he's toast..BTW..this guy McPeak is Slade Gorton's twin..."

Kerry's campaign is Toast and has been since 1971. As a Vietnam era Vet, I despise the man and everything he stands for.

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I'd be curious to actually KNOW what his heroics were involved with his particular war incidents.

* Awarded Bronze Star and Silver Star

"Cleland volunteered as communications officer for 2d Battalion, 12th Cavalry, which had been chosen for Operation Pegasus the relief of Khe Sanh in April 1968. CPT Cleland was on a mountaintop with his Signal team to set up a radio relay when he lost his legs and right arm to a grenade explosion. For Khe Sanh he received the Bronze Star for meritorious service and Silver Star for gallantry in action."

The awards of star medals appear unrelated to the grenade explosion accident which caused hs injuries. The Silver Star Medal Citation references action on 4 April. The grenade explosion was on 8 April.

Silver Star Medal Citation

Captain Cleland distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous action on 4 April 1968 during an enemy attack near Khe Sanh.

When the battalion command post came under a heavy enemy rocket and mortar attack, Captain Cleland, disregarding his own safety, exposed himself to the rocket barrage as he left his covered position to administer first aid to his wounded comrades. He then assisted in moving the injured personnel to covered positions.

Continuing to expose himself, Captain Cleland organized his men into a work party to repair the battalion communications equipment, which had been damaged by enemy fire.

His gallant action is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service, and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit and the United States Army.

Grenade Explosion Accident. In his own words,

On April 8, 1968, I volunteered for one last mission. The helicopter moved in low. The troops jumped out with M16 rifles in hand as we crouched low to the ground to avoid the helicopter blades. Then I saw the grenade. It was where the chopper had lifted off. It must be mine, I thought. Grenades had fallen off my web gear before. Shifting the M16 to my left hand and holding it behind me, I bent down to pick up the grenade. A blinding explosion threw me backwards.

http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Max_Cleland <-- Has references

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EXPLOITING MAX CLELAND

by Mia T, 8.29.04

ax Cleland is remarkable.

What a pity he allowed delusory left-wing flights of fancy and lust for power rob him of his nobility.

The irony and the tragedy of Max Cleland overwhelms.

Remarkably, Cleland did not become an embittered man when John Kerry's self-inflicted, bacitracin + bandaid-treated, tickets-out-of-Vietnam-and-onto-the-JFK-career-path scratches were deemed worthy of three purple hearts while his three missing limbs were deemed worthy of none; this, even after insult was added to injury when he was dispatched to Texas to lend his phantom limbs to Kerry's self-serving cause.

Cleland became embittered, rather, because he actually began to believe the principal neo-neoliberal premise--the neo-neoliberal premise that undergirds all other neo-neoliberal premises--which is, that he was entitled to his Senate seat not because of his abilities but because of his disabilities, not because of his policies but because of our pity...or even our shame.

Cleland lost the election because he supported his party's union quid-pro-quo policy at the expense of America's national security. That his patriotism was challenged is a leftist canard. What was challenged was his judgment and ability to protect the people of Georgia and America against the post-9/11 realities. (NOTE: I would add this caveat: Cleland and the Left conflating the two charges, (i.e., equating lack of judgment with lack of patriotism), suggests their own guilty knowledge of same.)

If Max Cleland lost nobility last week, John Kerry lost any semblance of decency. Harnessing and fomenting Max Cleland's denial and bitterness, Kerry sought finally to bring to fruition his cynical 1971 scheme that would shamelessly exploit a crippled vet for his own self-aggrandizing purposes.

Today, with the following throwaway line, Brit Hume, Kerry's childhood pal, perhaps not so unwittingly revealed the core of Kerry's unfitness--the constancy over time of John Kerry's overweening opportunism.

Delivering the Kerry coup de grâce with the uptown refinement and politesse we've come to expect from him, Hume slyly observed: "John Kerry gave his 1971 testimony with a [Kennedy-esque] accent I didn't hear when I knew him as a little boy and an accent I haven't heard since."

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