[SpinyNorman]

Mr. Cleland, a former Georgia senator who lost both legs and an arm in the Vietnam War, mistaking a grenade for a beer bottle, not in battle as the Dems would have you believe.

[SubMareener]

and becoming nettlesome for Republicans, some of whom complain he is exploiting his war wounds

I don't know of anyone who knows the story of the fateful day when young Max thought he would have a beer with his buddies, who calls them "war wounds."

[xrp]

Ah, the baby boomers...the generation that NEVER can let Vietnam die.

I certainly can't wait until all of them die.

[Just mythoughts]

Title says it all about liberals. Cleland: Ex-Senator Rejoins a Battle as He Campaigns for Kerry.

America at war with liberals and terrorists.

[NYCVirago]

Before he lost his Senate seat, before his entire world seemed to collapse around him, Max Cleland would have had little reason to go to a forlorn union hall, way out in Wisconsin's dairy country....But Mr. Cleland, who said his 2002 loss was so devastating he was undergoing treatment for depression, insisted that he is not seeking retribution. He is, he said, seeking only healing....In defeat, Mr. Cleland lost not only his job, but also his sense of purpose, spiraling into a depression he called "too deep and too hurtful to describe."

Geez, he's a one-term senator who lost his seat. The fact that he "spiraled into depression" because of it says something about him, and it isn't good. Boo bleeding hoo.

He signed on as a motivational speaker, but found that, outside of veterans, he could not connect with the audiences. For Mr. Cleland, the political world is divided into two types of people: those who served in combat, and those who did not.

I guess that's why he endorsed Bush and Dole in 1996, right? No, he didn't -- he supported Clinton! So much for his vaunted principles!

The other interesting thing about this article is that it confirms Ann Coulter's explanation of Cleland's war wounds.

[river rat]

The more I hear about the behavior and statements by Cleland.... The more I'm willing to believe it WASN'T his grenade that he picked up...

It's becoming more and more plausible that the grenade did indeed belong to someone else ---- someone who rolled the grenade toward Cleland...

I believe this practice in the Army was called - Fragging.

Semper Fi

[Moby Grape]

Let's see....Cleland LOST his last election...now Cleland ENDORSES Kerry and Kerry loses 10 points in one day....Yeah, old Max is a REAL influence broker!!!!

..another NYT unreality moment.

[SeeRushToldU_So]

Smoke his @ss!.....dims are horrible for our well being.

[GWB00]

Max Cleland is an example of how one man's war record does not add to the candidate's strength when he plays politics with country's security and tries to coddle the Federal employees union over passing a Homeland Security Bill.

The same arguments will be made with Kerrey and he will suffer despite his war record in Vietman, where I think he served(Sarcasm/off)