[Rummyfan]

"Max Cleland should stop allowing Democrats to portray him as a war hero who lost his limbs taking enemy fire on the battlefields of Vietnam," she writes, claiming that he "lost three limbs in an accident during a routine non-combat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. In fact, Cleland could have dropped a grenade on his foot as a National Guardsman. ... Luckily for Cleland’s political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam."

Did Mr Conason refute anything in this excerpt? I think not.

[lugsoul]

No, but I did. As has everyone who has actually looked into the matter. Go read Cleland's Silver Star citation for starters. Then go check where he lost his limbs. And check your history books and read up on a place called Khe Sanh.