posted 02-17-2004 12:04 PM            

http://www.anncoulter.org/columns/2004/021104p.htm

Cleland Drops A Political Grenade
February 11, 2004

Treason: Liberal Treachery from the Cold War

FORMER Sen. Max Cleland is the Democrats' designated hysteric about George Bush's National Guard service. A triple amputee and Vietnam veteran, Cleland is making the rounds on talk TV, basking in the affection of liberals who have suddenly become jock-sniffers for war veterans, and working himself into a lather about President Bush's military service. Citing such renowned military experts as Molly Ivins, Cleland indignantly demands further investigation into Bush's service with the Texas Air National Guard.

Bush's National Guard service is the most thoroughly investigated event since the Kennedy assassination. But the Democrats will accept only two possible conclusions to their baseless accusations: (1) Bush was "AWOL," or (2) the matter needs further investigation.

Thirty years ago, Bush was granted an honorable discharge from the National Guard –– which would seem to put the matter to rest. But liberals want proof that Bush actually deserved his honorable discharge. (Since when did the party of Bill Clinton, Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd get so obsessed with honor?)

On "Hardball" Monday night, Cleland demanded to see Bush's pay stubs for the disputed period of time, May 1972 to May 1973. "If he was getting paid for his weekend warrior work," Cleland said, "he should have some pay stubs to show it."

The next day, the White House produced the pay stubs. This confirmed what has been confirmed 1 million times before: After taking the summer off, Bush reported for duty nine times between Nov. 29, 1972, and May 24, 1973 -- more than enough times to fulfill his Guard duties. (And nine times more than Bill Clinton, Barney Frank or Chuck Schumer did during the same period.)

All this has been reported -- with documentation -- many times by many news organizations. George magazine had Bush's National Guard records 3 1/2 years ago.

All available evidence keeps confirming Bush's honorable service with the Guard, which leads liberals to conclude ... further investigation is needed! No evidence will ever be enough evidence. That Bush skipped out on his National Guard service is one of liberals' many nondisprovable beliefs, like global warming.

Cleland also expressed outrage that Bush left the National Guard nine months early in 1973 to go to Harvard Business School. On "Hardball," Cleland testily remarked: "I just know a whole lot of veterans who would have loved to have worked things out with the military and adjusted their tour of duty." (Cleland already knows one -- Al Gore!)

When Bush left the National Guard in 1973 to go to business school, the war was over. It might as well have been 1986. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson had already lost the war, and President Nixon had ended it with the Paris peace accords in January. If Bush had demanded active combat, there was no war to send him to.

To put this in perspective, by 1973, John Kerry had already accused American soldiers of committing war crimes in Vietnam, thrown someone else's medals to the ground in an anti-war demonstration, and married his first heiress. Bill Clinton had just finished three years of law school and was about to embark upon a political career -- which would include campaign events with Max Cleland.

Moreover, if we're going to start delving into exactly who did what back then, maybe 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.

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.

There is more than a whiff of dishonesty in how Cleland is presented to the American people. Terry McAuliffe goes around saying, "Max Cleland, a triple amputee who left three limbs on the battlefield of Vietnam," was thrown out of office because Republicans "had the audacity to call Max Cleland unpatriotic." Mr. Cleland, a word of advice: When a slimy weasel like Terry McAuliffe is vouching for your combat record, it's time to sound "retreat" on that subject.

Needless to say, no one ever challenged Cleland's "patriotism." His performance in the Senate was the issue, which should not have come as a bolt out of the blue inasmuch as he was running for re-election to the Senate. Sen. Cleland had refused to vote for the Homeland Security bill unless it was chock-full of pro-union perks that would have jeopardized national security. ("OH MY GOD! A HIJACKED PLANE IS HEADED FOR THE WHITE HOUSE!" "Sorry, I'm on my break. Please call back in two hours.")

The good people of Georgia -- who do not need lectures on admiring military service –- gave Cleland one pass for being a Vietnam veteran. He didn't get a lifetime pass.

Indeed, if Cleland had dropped a grenade on himself at Fort Dix rather than in Vietnam, he would never have been a U.S. senator in the first place. Maybe he'd be the best pharmacist in Atlanta, but not a U.S. senator. He got into office on the basis of serving in Vietnam and was thrown out for his performance as a senator.

Cleland wore the uniform, he was in Vietnam, and he has shown courage by going on to lead a productive life. But he didn't "give his limbs for his country," or leave them "on the battlefield." There was no bravery involved in dropping a grenade on himself with no enemy troops in sight. That could have happened in the Texas National Guard -- which Cleland denigrates while demanding his own sanctification.

posted 02-17-2004 08:53 PM            

Sounds like typical BIMBO Coulter-speak.

UNINFORMED as usual. She wrote a book praising Bush's Patriot Act yet..on Alex Jones live show she admitted she hadn't even read the whole thing.

NOW she is blaming "liberals" about Bush's Military inquiry..yet..the REAL inquiries are coming from FORMER COLLEGUES...NOT POLITICIANS!!

Like this FED EX PILOT.

http://themech.proboards22.com/index.cgi?board=politics&action=display&num=1076742443

posted 02-19-2004 10:04 AM            

Shame on You, Ann Coulter - Well known Republican mistress

By Scott Galindez
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Monday 16 February 2004

Ann Coulter's recent attack on Max Cleland shows just how un-patriotic
the right has become. In a recent column, Ms. Coulter rewrites history
in a shameful attack on a real American hero:
Excerpts from Coulter's column:

     "Cleland 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 - 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."

But he didn't "give his limbs for his country," or leave them "on the
battlefield." There was no bravery involved in dropping a grenade on
himself with no enemy troops in sight. That could have happened in the
Texas National Guard - which Cleland denigrates while demanding his own
sanctification."

posted 03-05-2004 09:03 AM            

• “The swing voters---I like to refer to them as the idiot voters because they don't have set philosophical principles. You're either a liberal or you're a conservative if you have an IQ above a toaster.”-- Beyond the News, Fox News Channel, 6/4/00

• “I think [women] should be armed but should not [be allowed to] vote...women have no capacity to understand how money is earned. They have a lot of ideas on how to spend it....it's always more money on education, more money on child care, more money on day care.”-- Politically Incorrect, 2/26/01

• “...a cruise missile is more important than Head Start.”-- Speech, 11/01, rebroadcast by C-Span in Jan. 2002

• “In his brief fiery ride across the landscape, Joe McCarthy bought America another thirty years. For this, he sacrificed his life, his reputation, his name. The left cut down a brave man, but not before the American people heard the truth.”-- The Drudge Report, quoting from Coulter’s new book, Treason, 6/19/03

• “When I began swooning for George W. Bush during the Republican primaries, my friends warned me that I was going to have to eat my words. It's now a month into his presidency, and I'm even more doe-eyed about Bush than ever.”-- Column, 2/22/01

• “We hate them. Americans don't want to make Islamic fanatics love us. We want to make them die. There's nothing like horrendous physical pain to quell anger. Japanese Kamikazes pilots hated us once, too. A couple of well-aimed nuclear weapons got their attention. Now they are gentle little lambs.”-- Column, 9/25/02

• “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.”-- Column, 9/13/01

• “We need to execute people like John Walker in order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.”-- Speech to Conservative Political Action Conference, January 2002

• “The only beef Enron employees have with top management is that management did not inform employees of the collapse in time to allow them to get in on the swindle.”-- Column, 1/24/02

• “My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building."-- New York Observer interview, 8/20/02

• “Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.”-- WorldNetDaily, 12/10/03

• “God help us if the Democratic Party ever wavers on its three major planks: abortion, gay marriage and banning the Boy Scouts. (Perhaps they could save a step by figuring out how to automatically abort all future Boy Scouts.)”-- WorldNetDaily, 12/10/03

• “It is simply a fact that Max Cleland was not injured by enemy fire in Vietnam. He was not in combat, he was not...on a reconnaissance mission, and he was not in the battle of Khe Sanh, as many others have implied. He picked up an American grenade on a routine noncombat mission and the grenade exploded.”-- Column, 2/18/04

posted 03-05-2004 07:20 PM            

You got Coulter on the right

and you have Carville on the left.

BOTH are DEDICATED to making you see things only ONE WAY or ONE OTHER WAY.

Evil or Ultra Evil.

posted 03-06-2004 09:18 PM            

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unmarried
I hear that he/she/it is running a totally clean campain
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the spray will effect right and left equally
and we will be able to now marry a buffalo
i mean, how good can it get?

martha, come back here dude
my tri sexuality is not done with you yet
~~~~~~~~~squeal~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Chainie, if I told you once...
i have toadyed you a thoUsand times
quit messing with the camera lights
it's dark down here in this friggin tunnel
stop mourfin around with kerry over there behind the curtain
we got a world to take over
you hear
martha you minxs
snarf