Posted on 10/02/2007 5:51:24 PM PDT by moneyrunner
Tom Harkin is a Democrat Senator from Iowa who is known as one of the most Liberal and vituperative creatures to inhabit that chamber.
The Democrats, smarting from the backlash to the MoveOn.org ad “General Betray-Us,” are trying to hit back. They are attacking Rush Limbaugh for using the term “phony soldier” in referring to fakes like Jesse MacBeth who claimed to have been and Army Ranger who participated in massacres in Iraq.
The Left is claiming that Rush referred to soldiers who disagree witht he way the war is being fought.
This propelled him into instant hero status on the Left. The only problem was that Jesse was not an Army Ranger, had never been to Iraq and had been discharged from the Army before he left boot camp. Of course Jesse was not the only “phony soldier” that the left has put forward. There is also the famous Scott Thomas Beauchamp who wrote several articles for the New Republic, all of whom where fake. A whole book has been written – Stolen Valor – which gives the long and sordid details about “phony soldiers” who came back from war with claims that later proved to be false.
Interestingly enough, among those “phony soldiers” is Tom Harkin, (D-Iowa) who was a Navy pilot and claimed to have flown combat patrols in Viet Nam. The only problem was that his story is not true, he ferried planes from one place to another and never served in Viet Nam at all.
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Harkin … high on BS.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005496
Has Harkin ever been called on his lies?
Oh. Sorry, I should have remembered. He’s a Leftist.
[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.]
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/8/19/85102.shtml
I am sick to death of “these people” and there hatred of America.
Again I say thank you to all those Republicans who did not vote in 2006, which emboldened these idiots.
When is the last straw?
Harkin is high on his own sanctimony.
Hark-a-crite!
All those Republicans are home polishing their principles, and keeping them all shiny for President Hillary Clinton, and First Lady Bill, in 08.
Followed by the hundreds of midnight pardons...
One way to lose a war is to have a lot of little armies too proud to work together. And make no mistake, we are in a war in this country.
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