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Archive for February 2004
Anne is lying again
Posted by on 02/11/04 at 11:01 pm
Category: PoliticsAnne is trying to outdo Saxby Chambliss’s libel of Senator Max Cleland. In Anne’s own words:
Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat 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 — or what Cleland sneeringly calls “weekend warriors.” Luckily for Cleland’s political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam.
Where does Anne come up with this story about Senator Cleland being on his way to drink beer with friends? Anne doesn’t say and that’s because it’s simply not true. According to the “Distinguished Member of the Regiment” biographical entry on the Army Signal Center web site, Senator Cleland was on a mountaintop near Khe Sanh with his Signal team to set up a radio relay when the explosion happened. Senator Cleland had just disembarked from a helicopter when he saw the grenade and, thinking it was his, picked it up, according to the account he gives in his book Strong at the Broken Places. Doesn’t sound to me like he was on his way to get a few cold ones with his buds.
Anne should be ashamed, that is if she had any shame.