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ON PEGGY NOONAN ON HILLARY CLINTON SENDING MEN TO WAR (It runs in the family)
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| 7.07.06
| Mia T
Posted on 07/07/2006 5:05:55 AM PDT by Mia T
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To: Grampa Dave
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:07:06 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: ChiefJayStrongbow
"What's he jumping on me for? I didn't kill the kid!"
The London Sunday Times, May 29, 1994:
It was the moment President Bill Clinton wanted to restore his
tattered reputation with the military before his departure for the
D-Day celebrations in Europe this week, James Adams reports.
He had just presented posthumous Congressional Medals of Honour,
America's highest military decoration, to the widows of two
soldiers for valour in Somalia. After inviting the families for a
moment of quiet reflection in the Oval Office, the president
approached Herbert Shughart, the father of one of the two
soldiers, and offered his hand.
Eventually, after Clinton had sat on the paper work for eight
weeks, two of the slain soldiers, Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and
Sergeant First Class Randall Shughart, were posthumously awarded
the Medal of Honor. As usual in such cases, the medals were
presented to the next of kin.
Following the May 23 presentation at the White House, the families
of the two men were invited into the Oval Office for a private
visit with Clinton. Inside the office, the father of Sergeant
Shughart refused to shake Clinton's hand, then looked him in the
face and calmly told him that he was responsible for his son's
death, that it was for no purpose, that he was not fit to be
President, and not fit to be Commander in Chief.
Clinton was visibly shocked, amazed, and momentarily speechless.
It is revealing that he was surprised that the man should feel
that way. Clinton really doesn't think the way most people do,
seeming to lack a sense of personal responsibility. After a brief,
awkward silence, Clinton caught his breath. Becoming angry, he
turned to the mother of the dead soldier and said, "What's he
jumping on me for? I didn't kill the kid!" (Emphasis added).
One other incident that didn't make the American press, happened after the wounded soldiers were brought back to Walter Reed Army Hospital outside Washington.
"Clinton was advised to go see them, but he didn't want to," McKenny said. "Somewhat reluctantly, he finally did go. When he got there, he offered to have his picture taken with each one of them. At least four turned him down, saying they wouldn't dishonor their dead friends or their uniform by having their pictures taken with him.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:07:06 AM PDT
by
Wolverine
(A Concerned Citizen)
To: Wolverine; ChiefJayStrongbow; All
Thank you for posting this, Wolverine.
The clintons are psychopaths.
Mutants.
Aliens.
We must not, in this Age of Terror,
allow another Perot or Perot-surrogate issue
elect a defective and dangerous clinton by a plurality.
Putting doctrinal purity ahead of
making sure a defective and dangerous clinton
never again controls this country
is pre-clinton thinking.
We no longer have the luxury of time or circumstance
to massage our sensibilities, to indulge our indignations.
We will not survive another clinton.
(We may yet not survive the first one.)
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:20:11 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
Clinton once said he "loathed" the military. Its pretty clear the feeling is mutual; as well it should be.
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:22:54 AM PDT
by
D1X1E
To: D1X1E
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:29:35 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: bmwcyle
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:30:11 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Defender2
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:34:58 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: FlyVet
28
posted on
07/07/2006 6:35:28 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: ALOHA RONNIE
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posted on
07/07/2006 6:36:05 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
Wow. I need an antidote, quick! Hillary overload!
To: Mia T
What was always staggering to me about this scene was not what it says about Clinton's sexual practices -- I couldn't care less one way or another -- but about his unseriousness. -- Krauthammer, ibid. For me, it symbolized the utter contempt in which he holds the military; those who sacrifice life, limb, mental health, and the friends and family who suffer along with them.
We read that those such as the President, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz often visit the wounded without fanfare. How hard this must be to face these wounded, knowing you are the one that sent them off to battle. But face them, they do. I don't doubt they have tears in private moments.
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posted on
07/07/2006 7:21:00 AM PDT
by
FlyVet
To: FlyVet
Thanx, FlyVet.
bump.
I think it's the confluence of the clintons' utter contempt for the military, their fundamental cowardice and their pathological self-interest.
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posted on
07/07/2006 7:29:44 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: austinaero
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posted on
07/07/2006 7:31:30 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: UWSrepublican
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posted on
07/07/2006 7:51:30 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: UWSrepublican
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:07:47 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: WorkingClassFilth
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:53:17 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: yoe
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:53:37 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: FlyVet
38
posted on
07/07/2006 8:54:43 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Brian Allen
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posted on
07/07/2006 8:55:19 AM PDT
by
Mia T
(Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
To: Mia T
Thanks Mia, we must never forget the lives that were needlessly lost due to the disgraced ex-President and his despicable wife.
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posted on
07/07/2006 9:06:29 AM PDT
by
ncountylee
(Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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