Note: edited to remove something mean I said about someone in my post. Don't want this thread locked!
I had posted earlier about Ann Coulter's libelous column of Max Cleland, where she said Cleland just stumbled upon a grenade as he was "about to drink beer with friends." I posted the account by Cleland's CO, Maury Cralle. I then got in touch with many of the web sites where Coulter's column is published. The first response came from World Net Daily. Here it is:
http://www.emory.edu/EMORY_MAGAZINE/summer97/max.html"After finishing his course work at Emory, Cleland volunteered to serve in Vietnam. Promoted to the rank of captain in the Army, he worked as a Signal Corps officer helping set up and maintain communications systems in the field and saw action in the bloody battle for control of Khe Sanh. Toward the end of his one-year tour of duty, Cleland was getting off a helicopter when he noticed a grenade had fallen off his vest. Thinking that the pin was still in, he instinctively bent down to pick it up and was rocked by a
tremendous explosion."
Cleland clearly had no idea the grenande (sic) was live, regardless of whose grenade it was. While what happened to him is regrettable, there was no bravery involved in doing what he did, nor is he a hero for doing so. Coulter is 100% spot on for calling the Dems to account for trying to pump him up as a war hero when he was, in fact, just one of many tragic casualties of a war started by Democrats and grossly mismanaged by Democrats. If Cleland and Kerry are the best that the socialists have to offer in their bid to malign Bush, they are in a lot of trouble.
Tom Ambrose
Commentary Editor
WorldNetDaily.com
How's that for arrogance?. Ambrose of course ignored the account supplied by Cleland's CO on what really happened, in favor of the fantasy version provided by Coulter -- an account that Coulter does not even attribute to anyone.
I find it amusing that right-wingers expect us liberals to believe that George W. Bush was not AWOL from the Alabama National Guard based on what one man, Bill Calhoun, has said, in that he remembers spending time with Bush in Alabama. Never mind that Bush was not even based in Alabama during the time frame Calhoun remembers. But that's supposed to be proof enough for us. The likes of Coulter will, of course, ignore the account given by Cleland's CO, in favor of the version that paints a Democrat in the worst possible light. Typical.