I don't know if that's funny or something else. Cleland got blown up when he picked up a high explosive after jumping off a helicopter that only landed for a beer run.
I'm not checking out the wackos on DU. YOU keep us current:)
Yeah I know. That's why I altered "smoking gun" to "hand grenade." In poor taste maybe, but I could not resist.
However, his injuries occurred, Cleland was severely wounded in Vietnam. That's always tragic, no matter one's politics. But I am very tired of sKerry and other RATs always wheeling Cleland out and screaming about how those nasty Republicans "questioned Max Cleland's patriotism." And I am disappointed that Cleland lets himself be used that way.
I am not questioning his patriotism, but I do question his judgment, and his dignity for allowing himself and his disabilities to be used that way. He has gone from being an inspiration to people with disabilities, and from all that I have read a fine man, to some sort of sideshow freak. And he now faces ethics questions and a possible criminal investigation. Bitterness is a terrible disease.