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Ted Cruz: I Won Those Purple Hearts!
The Daily Beast ^ | 05/15/2015 | Patricia Murphy

Posted on 07/16/2015 10:41:32 AM PDT by detective

The senator claims on the campaign trail that he was the reason the Fort Hood soldiers shot in a 2009 attack were awarded Purple Hearts. Why that’s stretching the truth just a tad.

Senator Ted Cruz’s presidential stump speech electrifies conservative crowds with a cocktail of growls, whispers, warnings of impending doom, and at least one claim of personal accomplishment so powerful, it often brings many in the audience to their feet.

(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...


TOPICS: Government; US: Texas; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; dailybeast; election2016; forthood; fthood; lyingliberals; rop; tedcruz; texas; workplaceviolence
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The article is an unfair, dishonest attack on Senator Cruz.

But it does provide interesting information. Senator Cruz introduced legislation in the Senate to mandate that the Pentagon award Purple Hearts to those injured at Ft. Hood. And it was this legislation that forced the Obama Administration to award the Purple Hearts.

The article talks about others who also worked on the same issue over the years. It does not mention the Obama people and the Senate Democrats who fought against it for so long. It unfairly smears Cruz as someone trying to take credit.

But it shows Cruz sponsored the legislation that got it done.

1 posted on 07/16/2015 10:41:32 AM PDT by detective
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Cruz: “I was very proud last year to introduce legislation in the Senate to mandate that the Pentagon award those Purple Hearts.”

The Beast: “I won those Purple Hearts.”

Liberal rag playing to the simpletons. I used to wonder how those people could sleep at night, but I came to realize defamation of conservatives is their JOB.


2 posted on 07/16/2015 10:46:39 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Liberalism is the poison ivy that infests the garden of society.)
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This is from the same people that lauded J F'ng Kerry for the fake 'purple hearts' he obtained FOR HIMSELF ...

... for a self-inflicted wound to his buttocks from rice pellets, as a result of Kerry's decision to throw a concussion grenade into a rice pile.


3 posted on 07/16/2015 10:54:31 AM PDT by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: detective

What did they say about Algore inventing the Internet?


4 posted on 07/16/2015 10:54:36 AM PDT by Lx (Do you like it? Do you like it, Scott? I call it, "Mr. & Mrs. Tenorman Chili.")
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To: detective
The article is an unfair, dishonest attack on Senator Cruz.

And you can bet there will be many more to come.

5 posted on 07/16/2015 10:58:59 AM PDT by South40 ("I probably identify more as a Democrat." ~Donald Trump)
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6 posted on 07/16/2015 10:59:29 AM PDT by smoothsailing
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To: detective

Another great Cruz video...

http://www.c-span.org/video/?c4537125/senator-ted-cruz-south-carolina-freedom-summit

16:50 mark is where he talks about Fort Hood


7 posted on 07/16/2015 11:01:03 AM PDT by Java4Jay (The evils of government are directly proportional to the tolerance of the people.)
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Obama and the Senate Democrats fought against it

Bears repeating.

8 posted on 07/16/2015 11:03:11 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: detective
I'm a big fan of doing my own research for exactly this reason. The media can't be trusted.

it is a melancholy truth that a suppression of the press could not more compleatly deprive the nation of it’s benefits, than is done by it’s abandoned prostitution to falsehood. nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. the real extent of this state of misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knolege with the lies of the day.
- Thomas Jefferson
9 posted on 07/16/2015 11:03:59 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Sad fact, most people just want a candidate to tell them what they want to hear)
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Something new to support him on. I didn’t know he did this. Way to go Cruz!!!!


10 posted on 07/16/2015 11:05:38 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Restore Liberty!)
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To: detective

But Al Gore invented the internet...


11 posted on 07/16/2015 11:08:53 AM PDT by thorvaldr
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To: detective; Kale; Jarhead9297; COUNTrecount; notaliberal; DoughtyOne; MountainDad; aposiopetic; ...
    Ted Cruz Ping!

    If you want on/off this ping list, please let me know.
    Please beware, this is a high-volume ping list!

    CRUZ or LOSE!

12 posted on 07/16/2015 11:34:57 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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Cruz should now state that being allowed to carry a gun would have been way better than being awarded any kind of medal.


13 posted on 07/16/2015 11:55:40 AM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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From newsmax April 2015

During a campaign stop in famously independent New Hampshire on Sunday, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz trumpeted his support for guns, telling a crowd that he’s “pressing” for the Senate Armed Services Committee to hold hearings to consider allowing soldiers to carry their personal concealed firearms on military bases, Politico reports


14 posted on 07/16/2015 12:19:42 PM PDT by stanne
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Thanks, that is one of the statements by Cruz I had heard of.

Fact: Ted Cruz supports the right of our soldiers to carry on base.

All facts not in on today's incident but it sounds like this issue may come to the forefront again.

15 posted on 07/16/2015 12:24:37 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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To: right way right

The article is an unfair, dishonest attack on Senator Cruz.


16 posted on 07/16/2015 1:01:55 PM PDT by 2001convSVT (Going Galt as fast as I can.)
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“The article is an unfair, dishonest attack on Senator Cruz”
Yes it is, but I do not worry so much about Cruz’s ability to turn such attacks back on his enemy’s.


17 posted on 07/16/2015 1:46:11 PM PDT by right way right (Disclaimer: Not a prophet but I have a pretty good record.)
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I’ve listened to the speech. He says his legislation and dogged determination forced DOD to recognize the combat injuries received by Ft Hood soldiers during Hassan’s attack. He never says he earned those Purple Hearts.

Which, if the author had half a brain, he would realize would be an impossible thing to claim, since the Purple Heart is won for combat wounds. Never heard Cruz claim to have been wounded in Congress. Although some probably wanted to shoot him.


18 posted on 07/16/2015 2:53:55 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: FreeAtlanta

I’ve been supporting him all the way, and sending him money. I am convinced that he’s the real deal…...


19 posted on 07/16/2015 3:59:39 PM PDT by basil
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To: detective
This accusation is...


20 posted on 07/16/2015 5:01:10 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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