Of Tammy Duckworth, Allen West, and right-wing hypocrisy
The story (most of you have already heard):
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rep-joe-walsh-doubles-down-accusation-tammy-duckworth-144349000.html?bcmt=1341509600248-9f4b3e8d-599e-4835-8c0f-1789649a7cf3&bcmt_s=u#ugccmt-container-b
Rep. Joe Walsh stands by accusation Tammy Duckworth politicizes her military service
By Rachel Rose Hartman, Yahoo! News
Freshman Rep. Joe Walsh, who has earned a reputation for caustic remarks and spontaneous tirades, this week accused opponent Tammy Duckworth--a double-amputee who lost her legs while serving as a Black Hawk helicopter pilot in Iraq--of using her military service to score political points.
The Illinois Republican-- who has not served in the military-- on Wednesday chose not to back down from comments he made accusing his Democratic opponent of talking too much about her time in the Army.
"She is a hero, and that demands our respect, but it doesn't demand our vote," Walsh said Wednesday on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer. "All she does, guys, is talk about her service."
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"Now I'm running against a woman who, I mean-- my God-- that's all she talks about," Walsh told an audience in Elk Grove, Ill. "Our true heroes, the men and women who served us, it's the last thing in the world they talk about."
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So let me get this straight. A veteran like Tammy Duckworth (or in years past, Max Cleland) serves in the military honorably (without controversy or violation of any of the military laws and regulations) and even literally sacrifices limb in the course of such service is deserving of scorn and ridicule.
Yet Allen West, a man who was nearly court martialed and forced into early retirement for conducting a mock execution on a beaten, unarmed detainee, mentions his military service every 5 seconds (without mention of the circumstances resulting in the hasty end to his service)....and the right considers him an "American hero" and how dare we criticize him for disgracing his uniform and disgracing our country.
In what bizarro world do these people live?
I guess if you are a military veteran, you must do something to disgrace your uniform if you want to brag about your service. 
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