WAR! There is no mis-speaking when talking about whether you were or were NOT in combat in Vietnam! That the Corrupt Media LIED for years and disparaged the fine men and women of the United States Military because of their ideological bent was sickening enough but for a candidate for the United States Senate to LIE over and over and over again to make himself out to be a man of honor a man of bravery makes one’s stomach twist in knots!

SHAME ON HIM!

(I’ve never tried to post a photo in a comment before, so I hope this worked. If not, it’s the one where Algore is bent over adjusting the sling on his M-16 while the muzzle is pointing straight up at his face and he’s essentially staring right down the barrel.)

Just heard someone on Hugh Hewitt’s program report that Chrissie Matthews has concluded that Blumenthal is toast.

Gee, I must assume Keith Overbite will call him The Worst Person In The World tonight?!

For Liberty,
ColdWarrior, PC (that’s “precinct committeeman,” not “political child!”)
Conservatives, UNITE! CHANGE the Republican Party and save the world by UNITING INSIDE the Party as precinct committeemen. NOW!

Some crap weasel in the local West Hartford VFW allowed the poser to use their hall. Blumenthal doesn’t even meet the criteria for membership in the VFW.

“Mr. Blumenthal was considered one of the best friends a veteran could have in Connecticut. It is a true shame that he let a false claim of Vietnam service change that,” said Richard DiFederico, in a statement. “Those who served in uniform during the Vietnam era also deserve our gratitude, which makes Mr. Blumenthal’s claim to be something he is not so outrageous.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37455.html#ixzz0oNJIQ1oI

Represenataive Rob Simmons and Vets For Freedom were also quoted in the Politico piece:

GOP Senate candidate and former Rep. Rob Simmons, a decorated military veteran who spent 19 months in Vietnam, seized on Blumenthal’s appearance Tuesday in an interview with Fox News.

“He’s not a veteran of foreign wars,” said Simmons, who is a VFW member. “He should not be a member of the VFW, and I find it offensive that he’s still wrapping himself in the veteran flag of those of us who served in Vietnam.”

Vets for Freedom, a conservative group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans, joined in a chorus of criticism Tuesday and called on Blumenthal to formally apologize to those who actually fought in Vietnam.

“After the New York Times exposed his real service record, Mr. Blumenthal remained defiant at his rebuttal press conference, saying he takes ‘full responsibility’ for the statements, yet refuses to apologize,” said Pete Hegseth, an Iraq war veteran and the group’s executive director, in a statement. “Mr. Blumenthal also claims he merely ‘misspoke’ on a few occasions, and did so unknowingly. As a combat veteran of Iraq, I find this very hard to believe. All veterans know what they did and where they were. There’s a big difference between the battlefield and your hometown.”

As for the whining, sniveling, leftist possible vets standing with him at his press conference, well… They’ve thrown away any dignity they ever possessed. I care just as much about how many 5 minute speeches Blumenthal has given in the rain as I did about Louise Slaughter’s friend who wore her dead sisters teeth and I’ll be damned if I’ll allow him to soil my VFW hall with his snivelling excuses. Blumenthal’s Service was honorable, until he decided to use it for his personal and political gain. You are exactly right Socrates, Blumenthal knew he lied every single time he “misspoke.” But he is a nice fit in the Democrat Party with winter soldier Kerry.

Each and every military veteran knows precisely where his/her service fits into that spectrum, from home-station stateside supply clerk to sand-in-the-face, bullets-whizzing-by down & dirty combat duty. No self-respecting vet could ever mistakenly confuse exactly where their service fits in that spectrum.

Blumenthal’s Clintonesque lawyerly parsing of words, “in” Vietnam versus “during” brings to mind my home state’s recent Senatorial primary winner Mark Kirk’s commercials, where he served “over” Afghanistan. Perhaps technically correct, but what’s being implied?

I am forever grateful for each military person’s honorable service to our country, wherever, whenever, however. It’s demeaning to puff up one’s resume by spinning the nature of military service for a purely political end, and an embarrassment when the truth comes out. If one’s capable of embarrassment, that is.

I graduated from college in 1966, went to USAF Officer Training School, became a Supply Officer, and was assigned to SAC. (B-52′s & KC-135′s) Closest I ever got to Viet Nam was Guam & Okinawa. B-52′s were flying bombing missions over Viet Nam from there. (Arc Light) Was given a job and did it. Left USAF in 1971. (Captain)
I am incensed that anyone would lie about their military service. It is simply unforgiveable. Why would anyone ever believe anything Blumenthal said again?

Every day I am reminded of why I hate the Treason Media.

The truly disgusting thing is that this has become a story not about Blumenthal’s deliberate lies regarding his “service” but about framing and, of course, narrative.

The message (and it has been well received by the press in this country) is that if you simply stop reporting the story it will go away and allow the candidate to tell the story his own way, which you can then pick up and repeat, and that will become the truth again.

There are a few people who are trying to make sure that the world doesn’t just amount to a fable, artfully crafted by the powerful, but they’re in the minority.

Blumenthal is betting that everyone will forgive and forget, and accept his version of the story as “misstatements”.

We live in an age where the truth really doesn’t matter. It was always thus, more or less. The difference now is that the truth not mattering has been accepted and enshrined as a theoretical principle — even a virtue — of public discourse.

It won’t last long, and it will end in spectacular fashion. The lies eventually pile up to the point that they create catastrophes.

My own Viet Nam experience was as a gun bunny, (powder man on a 155mm), with minimal hostile action to my locations, (one mid-night homemade claymare attack with only one minor injury), but that was enough to know the difference between “In Viet Nam” and “During Viet Nam”.

Thank God this guy is a democrat!