...and darned lucky to have survived. LOLOL
Posted on 10/07/2007 7:01:45 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
lib/dems were for the phony soldiers before they were against them!!!
What fascinates me about the military experts the dems choose to make their profound military pronouncements is they choose losers like Kerry, Murtha, Harkin, McBeth etc.
Kerry, is that you???
I just read the LBJ/Silver Star account. I agree, laughable.
Bahbah:
I absolutely agree with you. It just seemed to me that the author appeared to be saying he was never IN the military.
"appeared", that is the key word. The libs pick apart the words used, and re assert the emphasis.
They are masters at being word-smiths. Remember "W" and those 16 words?
Anyone that followed the news knew he was repeating a report from the UK intelligence agency.
The NYT's, WaPo and the rest made it appear that was "W's" speech and feelings.
WE have to be vary careful how we phrase every single comment or report, they don't.
Unfortunately, this is incorrect, although it was for a mere 40 to 44 days, depending upon the account one reads.
Actually it may be technically correct.
Boot Camp (USMC) is three months or approx 90 days. You are not considered a Marine nor are you called a Marine until graduation day.
Not sure about the Army.
Yeah! Now I remember. When I was on liberty in Japan and Okinawa.
Those cute bar girls kept plying me with "Singapore Slings" until I was gassed out of my mind. 8>)
I would not mind being corrected. I don't think what McBeth did or had in mind was "service" to this country.
Precisely.
Democrats Chastise Limbaugh for Insulting Troops
Oct. 6, 2007
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has introduced a “Bill of Attainder” against conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh for “usurping the prerogatives of congress.” The flap started when Limbaugh characterized self-proclaimed war hero and war critic, Jesse Macbeth, a “phony soldier.”
“It is not for Mr. Limbaugh to say who is or isn’t a soldier,” Reid said. “Nor should he be casting aspersions on brave men like Jesse Macbeth for their outspoken opposition to the atrocities committed by our troops. Congress is the judge of these matters.”
Reid asserted that “the testimony of soldiers like Macbeth has been corroborated by many others.” “Senator Kerry (D-Mass.) has informed me that our troops have been terrorizing women and children in the dead of night,” Reid went on. “Congressman Murtha (D-Pa.) pointed out that our Marines have been killing civilians in cold-blood. I have heard similar stories from Senator Durbin (D-Ill.) and Senator Obama (D-Ill.).”
As it turns out, Macbeth who claimed to have been an Army Ranger was in the Army only 44 days and never served in Iraq or Afghanistan. The lack of actual participation in the war did not stunt Macbeth’s imagination. He described how he and other U.S. Army Rangers slaughtered Muslims as they prayed in a Baghdad mosque.
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) cautioned that we “not rush to dismiss Macbeth’s account of atrocities just because he embellished his war record.” Harkin said boasting about one’s military service is “a harmless vice” akin to “fishermen’s tales of the one that got away.”
Harkin once claimed to have flown combat missions in Vietnam, only to later be forced to admit that he only flew into Vietnam on a few occasions to “sample the ‘killer weed’ and get some action with ‘hot Asian babes.’”
Reid’s bill calls for Limbaugh to be permanently banished from the airwaves and to perform two million hours of community service helping non-English speakers register to vote.
read more...
http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm
Ellis had earlier rejected the allegations that Thomas Jefferson had fathered Sally Hemings' children, but just before the 1998 elections, at the height of the Lewinsky scandal, he suddenly decided he believed that Jefferson had had the affair. Trash Jefferson to enhance the stature of William Jefferson Clinton.
In the case of Kerry and Murtha they have refused to disclose their service records.
Clintoon the Sex Predator, Gore the Buffoon, Kerry the Traitor makes up quite a cast!
lefteous it is then
Actually that's not quite right either. MacBeth washed out of basic, spending 44 days as a private at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2003, but was released "for issues related to entry-level performance and conduct," he didn't serve on active duty long enough to be considered a "soldier" much less a "veteran".
Incidently, his birth name was Jesse Adam Al-Zaid. Here's the Court Record of his name change. It was a long time ago, July of '86, so he would have been pretty young, maybe only a few years old. Still something that probably bears looking into.
Even though he was being disingenuous , Harkin was technically correct. When I was on active duty, I was assigned to the engineering division of an Air Force depot. It is “putting your ass on the line” to fly aircraft after the civilian depot monkeys get done with them. I also used to work with a former Army Officer who flew every sort of helicopter the Army had, after they underwent maintenance, and not even at the depot. He said much the same. The only one that really scared him was the Chinook series. He knew “too much” about the mechanicals in those.
"Fake but accurate" raises it's ugly socialist head once again.
I guess Harkin knows all about "embellishing" events which never happened into the historical record.
...and darned lucky to have survived. LOLOL
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