[MeekOneGOP]

... The "Capital Gang" panelist, it may have been popular liberal Al Hunt, but I cannot recall, said that Ann Coulter flatly lied about Cleland. Does anyone know the truth here? Do the people of GA know about this case perhaps?

Here is the link to Ann's article posted here on FR ...

Cleland Drops A Political Grenade

I don't think she lied. She could have worded her criticism a little more delicately given the situation he is a triple amputee, however.

Mark Steyn also commented on her comments regarding Cleland in his last article:

Kerry should be wary of dredging up past

Excerpt:

Likewise, Max Cleland, the former Georgia senator turned cable show hit man for the Kerry campaign on the Bush National Guard ''scandal.'' He's untouchable because, as Terry McAuliffe likes to say, he's a ''triple amputee who left three limbs on the battlefield of Vietnam.''

As Ann Coulter pointed out in a merciless but entirely accurate column, it wasn't on the ''battlefield.'' It wasn't in combat. He was working on a radio relay station. He saw a grenade dropped by one of his colleagues and bent down to pick it up. It's impossible for most of us to imagine what that must be like -- to be flown home, with your body shattered, not because of some firefight, but because you made a stupid mistake. Once upon a time, Cleland loathed the Silver and Bronze Stars he'd been given: He was, in his words, ''no hero'' -- which is true. He was a beneficiary of the medal inflation that tends to accompany unpopular wars. But Cleland learned to stop hating himself to the point where he's happy to be passed off as a hero wounded in battle because that makes him a more valuable mascot to the campaign. Sad.

[Sender]

Whatever the circumstances of Max Cleland losing his limbs, whether in a fierce firefight or picking up a grenade or in a mashed potato accident in an army kitchen, it really doesn't matter. He lost his limbs in honorable service to his country, and we should leave it at that.

If we go down that low road that asks 'didn't he just pick up a grenade?' then we also open the door to more of the same from the Democrats. I'd like to see the level of discourse over the next few months raised a bit.

disclaimers: -honoring and respecting Max Cleland does not require liking him nor voting for him
-Democrats will sink to loathsome, subhuman lies and slander no matter what we do