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To: Boston Blackie

Sorry, but Hackworth's bread and butter was trying to appear as one who called "bullshit" on the top brass. Yet by doing so he became a hypocrite, as one who had to kiss butt to attain the rank he did and earn the b.s. accolades along that way that he never declined.

I do not doubt his patriotism, heroism, or service. I simply point out that he was likely guilty of the same hypocrisy he decried.

I just call him on his "bullshit" the same way he did to others.

We can pretend that his motives were pure, but he was in fact a self-promoter who disingenuously packaged himself as one interested exclusively in the well-being of soldiers.

Live by the sword, die by the sword.


16 posted on 05/30/2005 5:22:17 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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To: Notwithstanding

Would not a refusal to accept a decoration in the name of your command be also hypocritical.


26 posted on 05/30/2005 7:02:53 AM PDT by picti
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