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Again...Ann Coulter was specifically responding to the propaganda of the Democrats that said "Cleland left 3 limbs behind on the battlefields of Vietnam," which says that he lost them while in a combat operation. He did not.

Ann doesn't owe Cleland an apology.

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Again...Ann Coulter was specifically responding to the propaganda of the Democrats that said "Cleland left 3 limbs behind on the battlefields of Vietnam," which says that he lost them while in a combat operation. He did not.

Perhaps I misunderstood what was posted in posts #5 & #18. But, if those are accurate then Coulter has grossly mischaracterized the circumstances of Cleland's wounding. While setting up a forward radio relay tower on a mountain top secured by an infantry company may sound tame to some, it was certainly a combat operation at that time. It may not have been a hot LZ at the time, it doesn't matter, it was part of a sustained combat mission to relieve the forces at Khe Sanh. It was, by any measure, a combat mission.

Ask anyone who has spent any time on remote fire bases or radio relay sites and the chances are pretty good that they will not characterize it as "routine non combat".

Now, if the info in posts 5 & 18 is not the accurate story, then all bets are off.