May 17, 2010

CT Atty General Richard Blumenthal Claimed Vietnam Service
— Dave in Texas

Service records say "no". (NYT link).

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”

There was one problem: Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records.

There's a video embedded with the story, and his language is unambiguous.

"We have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam".

The article notes times when he is fuzzier with his language, but also times like the 2008 talk in Norwalk, when it's really not all that ambigous.

This is stupid on steriods. It's boggles the mind (and a boggled mind is of absolutely no use to anyone).

Also it will kill his Senate bid.

Dummy.


via Andy Levy on Twitter.


UPDATE: Blumenthal remembers the last mission.

"Hartford... shit; I'm still only in Hartford... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. "

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 09:31 PM (asRwH)

UPDATE2: Slublog has this fertile mind with the p-shops, doesn't he?

UPDATE3: The spin begins. Focus is on the deferments, not the lie about having served in VietNam. [link via DrewM.]

Lame. Look at the video again. It isn't about his deferments, it's his lie about having served in VietNam.

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*Slubs adds "with apologies to Adam Baldwin". But I'll bet he laughs his ass off too.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at 05:28 PM | Comments (259)
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1 HAHAHA!  Dumbass!

Posted by: Moemo at May 17, 2010 05:30 PM (JDrQ3)

2 I am making a preemptive strike and calling this guy a waste of oxygen and a you-know of what.

Posted by: sifty at May 17, 2010 05:30 PM (QZVn4)

3 It would be sweet indeed if the Dems still managed to blow Connecticut after the Dodd switcheroo.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 17, 2010 05:30 PM (Wpgaw)

4

Throw this wannabe warrior asswipe in jail and throw away the key. I'm so tired of this bullshit.

Posted by: Blazer at May 17, 2010 05:30 PM (t72+4)

5 "Hartford... shit; I'm still only in Hartford... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up back in the jungle. "

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 05:31 PM (asRwH)

6 Awww, that's too bad if  it's not true. That cocksucker Seth MacFarlane (I hope I'm spelling his name wrong) could make fun of him, too.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 17, 2010 05:31 PM (QSMOq)

7 He raided his candidacy in a manner reminiscent of Jenjis Khan.

Posted by: sifty at May 17, 2010 05:32 PM (QZVn4)

8 I second that Lacey. Seth McFarlooser is a cocksucker, and so is this Blumenthal douche.

Posted by: sifty at May 17, 2010 05:33 PM (QZVn4)

9 WTF is wrong with people like this? Don't they learn when it blows up in other people's faces?

Posted by: fluffy scratches his head at May 17, 2010 05:34 PM (SwkdU)

10 Are we sure he didn't sling hash at a pho restaurant at some time?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 17, 2010 05:36 PM (dnH0+)

11 Dick Blumenthal went into Cambodia with me on that 1968 Christmas Eve under orders from Nixon. It's SEARED into my memory

Posted by: Sen. Lurch Heinz-Kerry at May 17, 2010 05:36 PM (sYxEE)

12 SWIFTBOATING!!!!111!!1!!11eleventy!!

Posted by: Dick Blumenthal, D(umbass) - CT at May 17, 2010 05:36 PM (r8LqP)

13 I think there is a DD 214, or something like that, he can produce if he isn't a lying sack of shit. Which he is.

Posted by: Ronster at May 17, 2010 05:37 PM (tAmmU)

14 Yeah, there is a G-d!
(God for you non-Jews)

OT:  Gingrich may not be able to pick NY-23 candidates, but he must be considered a great man.  Interview with National Review--fantastic:
http://tinyurl.com/2dplsye

Posted by: ParisParamus at May 17, 2010 05:37 PM (GgR+e)

15 That cocksucker Seth MacFarlane (I hope I'm spelling his name wrong) could make fun of him, too.

Hey, remember the time I ignored all the chances I had to make fun of Democrats?

Posted by: Seth One-Note Plagiarist Cocksucking Motherfucker MacFarlane at May 17, 2010 05:37 PM (Wpgaw)

16 democrap!!!

Posted by: Stan Smith at May 17, 2010 05:38 PM (EC3UD)

17 Marine Reserves in D.C.  That took Serious Juice to get into back then.  Very Serious Juice

He probably laid on his back on the floor, drunk, staring up at the ceiling fan, hallucinating that he was in the jungle again

I hate this shit so much I can even begin to express it.  Guys with no connections died at 19 and this rich boy dances above all of it.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at May 17, 2010 05:38 PM (JrRME)

18 12 Dick Blumenthal went into Cambodia with me on that 1968 Christmas Eve under orders from Nixon. It's SEARED into my memory
Posted by: Sen. Lurch Heinz-Kerry at May 17, 2010 09:36 PM

It's true. I flew him to the rendezvous with Kerry under heavy enemy fire

Posted by: Sen. Tom Top-Gun Harkin at May 17, 2010 05:38 PM (sYxEE)

19 He was right next to me the whole time.

Posted by: That kid with all the medals that got his ass arrested at May 17, 2010 05:39 PM (veaqz)

20 CAN'T even begin to express it.  Can't type when I'm screaming at the screen

Posted by: SantaRosaStan at May 17, 2010 05:39 PM (JrRME)

21 Is Mr. Blumenthal going to get the "chicken-hawk" treatment, like Dick Cheney did?

/Hell no!

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 17, 2010 05:40 PM (c0A3e)

22

I don't really give a shit about the deferrments... they happened and he wasn't the only guy who got em.

But to claim you served, in Vietnam, when you did not?

 

That is loooooow.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at May 17, 2010 05:40 PM (Wh0W+)

23 Dick Blumenthal parachuted with me when we went into 'Nam to capture Bin Laden

Posted by: Joe the Biden at May 17, 2010 05:40 PM (sYxEE)

24 Reminds me of all the danger filled missions I've been on (whips off sunglasses).

Posted by: Sherriff Joe Biden at May 17, 2010 05:40 PM (Lt+t9)

25 Flaming SKULL!!!! For the D-BAG!!!! 

Posted by: Indian Outlaw at May 17, 2010 05:41 PM (8zsWd)

26 One time me and some guys were in Central America, a real shithole. There was me, an Austrian, a former wrestler, two black dudes, a big Indian dude, a hot latina woman...anyway, we got attacked by this big invisible alien. It was awful. It had lasers and a big spear and knives strapped to his arm. It killed everybody but me and the hot latina woman.

I wouldn't shit you.

Vote for me.

Posted by: Big Dick Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 05:41 PM (QZVn4)

27 In the Peoples Republic of Connecticut, this is a feature, not a bug!

Posted by: realist at May 17, 2010 05:41 PM (4RDr3)

28

Hartford... shit; I'm still only in Hartford... Every time I think I'm gonna wake up...I'mback in Asylum Hill.

When I was home after my first tour, it was worse. I'd wake up and there'd be nothing,......but David lettermans sack draped across my forehead. I hardly said a word to my wife, until I said "yes" to a divorce. When I was home after my first tour, it was worse.


[grabs at flying insect]

Posted by: General Richard "Old Blood & Guts" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 05:42 PM (t72+4)

29 I remember him taking the controls to put us down in Bosnia while under heavy fire. He was amazing!

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at May 17, 2010 05:42 PM (r8LqP)

30 I can vouch for Dickie.

He was on my team during our super-secret mission to Casanova during the Wee-Wee Rebellion of 1970.

Posted by: Sheriff Joe Biden at May 17, 2010 05:42 PM (Mmw0q)

31 We need to relocate Blumenthal to Okinawa.  Get him outta 'Nam, now.

Posted by: Zombie Jack Murtha at May 17, 2010 05:43 PM (YX6i/)

32 It still took over two years for this to come out? I wonder why the media doesn't fact check things anymore??/

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 17, 2010 05:43 PM (veaqz)

33 Quick, someone dig up some TANG memos!

Posted by: CBS News at May 17, 2010 05:43 PM (sYxEE)

34 Maybe he had a job as a waiter in a restaurant in Vietnam.

Posted by: zmdavid at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (ojiNn)

35

More stolen valor.

O/T:  Final PPP poll, Rep. Burns 48, Critz 47.  (Murtha's seat.)

Posted by: rdbrewer at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (vwwNz)

36 They don't call me Attorney General for nothing... right? Four stars... suckas!

Posted by: Tricky Dick Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (r8LqP)

37 He was 20 points ahead of the nearest Republican contender.

Just goes to show, New England has that special kind of asshole that votes.

Posted by: Barbarian at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (EL+OC)

38 I refuse to believe that is a real NYT link.  The tip-off?  It only took 3 paragraphs to identify his political party. 

Nice try Dave in Texas...if that's your real name.

Posted by: The Hammer at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (YBTwf)

39 22 Is Mr. Blumenthal going to get the "chicken-hawk" treatment, like Dick Cheney did?

/Hell no!

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 17, 2010 09:40 PM (c0A3e

That's 'cause he went IN HIS MIND! Cheney didn't.

 

Posted by: Typical Duplicious DemocRAT at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (Lt+t9)

40

this is disgusting. Who the hell are these people??  This is much worse than Kerry, at least Kerry actually went to Vietnam, this jerk Blummy didn't even go!  how the hell do these people sleep at night??

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (ACkhT)

41 Why do these guys think they can get away with this crap?

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (iBTj9)

42 33 It still took over two years for this to come out? I wonder why the media doesn't fact check things anymore??/

You wonder?  Don't, my friend.  They're completely in the tank for the Dems, and aren't even bothering to hide it anymore.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (c0A3e)

43 It's true!  We were mortar crewmen together!

Posted by: ex-Toronto Blue Jays manager Tim Johnson at May 17, 2010 05:44 PM (c6Umi)

44

"Sir, I am (coughs) unaware of any such operation; nor would I be disposed to discuss such an operation, if it did, in fact, exist."

-Dick Blumenthal-

Posted by: -Shawn- at May 17, 2010 05:46 PM (OM72e)

45 Heh.  Poser. Glory Stealer.

Why is it that the Libs all hate the Military until they can gain some advantage by pretending to be a Veteran?

I hope some Vietnam Combat Vet pops him right in the kisser, unannounced.

Posted by: TXMarko at May 17, 2010 05:46 PM (USlgP)

46 Whenever I see some punk wanna-be-hipster douchebag wearing some second-hand military uniform jacket he didn't earn I want to grind a broken bottle into his fucking eye sockets.

Someone who claims to have served in Vietnam but didn't.... ohhhhh shit. Have a friend who won the Silver Star in service with the 101st Airborne over there and would love to introduce him to Richard Fucking Blumenthal.

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 17, 2010 05:46 PM (Wpgaw)

47 CT voter will elect him.

Posted by: Arlen Specter at May 17, 2010 05:46 PM (7+pP9)

48 34 Quick, someone dig up some TANG memos!

Posted by: CBS News at May 17, 2010 09:43 PM

What documents? There were no fake memos, Bush got out of serving, and I broke the story. Can't find it for some reason

Posted by: Charles Comic Bookstore Johnson at May 17, 2010 05:46 PM (sYxEE)

49

The article went on to state that Blumenthal, often listed as Captain of the Harvard swim team, was never on the Harvard swim team. Blumenthal is often listed as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal, when in fact he was one of dozens of editors of the Yale Law Journal in his law school class.

 

No wonder Barry called him with support.

Posted by: RWC at May 17, 2010 05:47 PM (v1nVF)

50 46 Whenever I see some punk wanna-be-hipster douchebag wearing some second-hand military uniform jacket he didn't earn I want to grind a broken bottle into his fucking eye sockets.

Do you publish a newsletter?

Posted by: Barbarian at May 17, 2010 05:47 PM (EL+OC)

51 I am sick to my stomach, I really am. 

Posted by: johnc_recent_EX-democrat at May 17, 2010 05:47 PM (ACkhT)

52 There is a special place in Hell for creatures like this. And I hope this one is in the express lane.

Posted by: sifty at May 17, 2010 05:47 PM (QZVn4)

53 Fucker, god damnit

Posted by: robtr at May 17, 2010 05:48 PM (fwSHf)

54 mpur 42, they are Democrats in New England. They see themselves as the great vanguard of Progress, and Conservatives as "trailer dwellers". (I am here quoting the words of the "SpaceJesus".)

Posted by: Zimriel at May 17, 2010 05:48 PM (TjZdQ)

55 Hell, yes he was there.  It was his grenade.

Posted by: Max Cleland at May 17, 2010 05:48 PM (OFSgm)

56 Dick could swing out an M-16 and mow the enemy down in a manner reminiscent of Jenjis Khan

Posted by: Sen. Lurch Heinz-Kerry at May 17, 2010 05:49 PM (sYxEE)

57

I was going to the worst place in the world and I didn't even know it yet. Weeks away and hundreds of miles up the Connecticut river that snaked through New England like Ron Jeremy's cock plugged straight into a Vienna Choir Boy. It was no accident that I got to be the caretaker of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz's memory any more than being back in New Haven was an accident. There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine.

Posted by: General Richard Iron Dick" Blumenthall at May 17, 2010 05:49 PM (t72+4)

58 I predict that this man will still be able to find at least 45% of the electorate to vote for him. Pray that his opponent doesn't face a third-party challenge.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 17, 2010 05:49 PM (TjZdQ)

59 Linda McMahon was already gaining in the polls. Blumenthal still had a big lead, but it's only May.

This should make things interesting. Going to be very tough to knock off the most popular Democrat in CT, but stranger things have happened...

Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 17, 2010 05:51 PM (Wpgaw)

60 46 Whenever I see some punk wanna-be-hipster douchebag wearing some second-hand military uniform jacket he didn't earn I want to grind a broken bottle into his fucking eye sockets.

I can pedal faster than you can run, nyah nyah!

Posted by: Charles Comic Bookstore Johnson at May 17, 2010 05:51 PM (sYxEE)

61 #50 Holy Cow! Are we sure he's really Attorney General?

Posted by: zmdavid at May 17, 2010 05:52 PM (ojiNn)

62 So, do Democrats falsely claiming to be Vietnam vets call themselves baby-killer and spit on themselves?

Must be tough for the administration of filthy commie flower-children to control themselves around veterans of any variety.

Posted by: sifty at May 17, 2010 05:52 PM (QZVn4)

63 We had a dogtag-wearing douchebag in our bar last weekend actually. He was generally shunned by the regulars. Nobody started an overt scene though.

I did mention the Stolen Valor Act to the lady who brought it to my attention, but I'm not sure that just wearing a dogtag is enough to trigger its provisions.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 17, 2010 05:52 PM (TjZdQ)

64 This is Seth Mcfarlane appalling.

Posted by: Trish at May 17, 2010 05:52 PM (yqhkv)

65 This is the kind of common-sense declaration Americans have learned to expect from their Democratic friends which will guarantee 67.29 new seats in Congress this fall.

Posted by: assdraggin' at May 17, 2010 05:53 PM (S9AJM)

66 Look, if Nadal Malik Hasan can suffer PTSD from combat he never experienced, then Atty General Blumendouch could have served in Nam without actually being in Nam. 


Posted by: The Hammer at May 17, 2010 05:53 PM (YBTwf)

67 65 We had a dogtag-wearing douchebag in our bar last weekend actually. He was generally shunned by the regulars. Nobody started an overt scene though.

I did mention the Stolen Valor Act to the lady who brought it to my attention, but I'm not sure that just wearing a dogtag is enough to trigger its provisions.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 17, 2010 09:52 PM

If the tags belonged to his brother or other close male relative who died in combat, he might be wearing them as a memorial. Odds are though, he was a hipster douchebag wearing them as a fashion accessory

Posted by: kbdabear at May 17, 2010 05:55 PM (sYxEE)

68 Wearing dogtags with your name and address or just general info like allergies (like when you're camping) is ok, but making them just like military ID is illegal I think.

Posted by: sifty at May 17, 2010 05:56 PM (QZVn4)

69 67 Look, if Nadal Malik Hasan can suffer PTSD from combat he never experienced, then Atty General Blumendouch could have served in Nam without actually being in Nam. 


Posted by: The Hammer at May 17, 2010 09:53 PM

Hey, quit stealing my spin!

Posted by: Chrissy Matthews at May 17, 2010 05:56 PM (sYxEE)

70 They sell dog tags at the Air and Space Museum. I bought one for my little sister....What the good Demo-rat needs is a toe-tag.

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 17, 2010 05:56 PM (veaqz)

71 This really ticks me off, that the Dems' support of the military is based on convenience. When it's popular to be in the service, every candidate is a veteran; when it's not, they're all members of peace orgs or draft-dodgers.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 17, 2010 05:56 PM (W396d)

72

For those that served in 'Nam, this is a slap in the face. May he get run over by a bus.

Posted by: Ronster at May 17, 2010 05:56 PM (tAmmU)

73 This man's story is absolutely true. We gave him a loudhailer and tied him to the tail boom of a Huey so he could sing Wagner while we were on a mission.

Later we requisitioned  a tape recorder.

Posted by: Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Kilgore at May 17, 2010 05:57 PM (S9AJM)

74

How many people had I already Blumpkined? There were those six that I knew about for sure. Close enough to blow their last shitty breath in my face. But this time, it was an American and a t.v. personality. That wasn't supposed to make any difference to me, but it did. Shit... charging a man with murder in this place was like handing out excessive cock sucking tickets at a San Francisco street fair. I took the mission.

What the hell else was I gonna do?

Posted by: General Richard "Iron Dick at May 17, 2010 05:57 PM (t72+4)

75 I watched Apocolypse Now and Platoon, and it FELT like I was there

Feeling like you were there is just the same as being there.

This persecution of me reminds me of when my store was smashed by nazi thugs on Krystalnacht

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 05:58 PM (sYxEE)

76 So tell me why this jackass isn't being brought up under the Stolen Valor law?

Posted by: instinct at May 17, 2010 06:00 PM (tRumj)

77 He shoulda stayed for the triple feature in "Feel Around"...The last movie was Deep Throat.

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 17, 2010 06:00 PM (veaqz)

78 Tea Partiers are just jealous of my medals for crochet, badminton, and latch-hook rug making.

Posted by: Big Dick Blumenthal, Brownie at May 17, 2010 06:00 PM (QZVn4)

79 I wasn't only a prisoner at Auschwitz, I rescued it along with Obama's grand-uncle

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:00 PM (sYxEE)

80 This is the end, my only friend, the end...

Posted by: Dick Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:01 PM (mRKwV)

81 Linda McMahon is trying to purchase this election. My house has been blanketed with her glossy promotions.
She is not a conservative.

She is a Snowe/ Collins type in disguise, and riding the conservative wave in.

Posted by: lauraw at May 17, 2010 06:01 PM (rNe2E)

82 My team was imprisoned for a crime we didn't commit. We busted out. Now we help people solve problems the law can't.



Posted by: Dick "Hannibal" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:03 PM (QZVn4)

83 Looks like it's time to . . .

[removing sunglasses]

. . . put this Dick in the Box!



Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!

Posted by: CSI: Hartford at May 17, 2010 06:04 PM (Mmw0q)

84 Only reichwing teabagers would try to get political mileage out of this innocuous slip of the tongue. 

Posted by: Bob Dornan at May 17, 2010 06:04 PM (7+pP9)

85 Come to Illinois, you can run for whatever you want here, no matter what's in your background!! And the media will fawn over you, and pay no attention to the GOP candidate!

Posted by: Scott Lee Cohen at May 17, 2010 06:04 PM (rzJpR)

86


He was close, real close. I couldn't see him yet, but I could feel the tendrils of his ball sack hair wafting against my cheek, as if the boat were being sucked upriver and the water was flowing back into New Haven. God I wanted to suck his cock....real bad.

Whatever was going to happen was going to happen...... and it was gonna stay in f'cking New Haven.

Posted by: General Richard "Iron Dick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:05 PM (t72+4)

87 In the Cub Scouts, I aced Webelos when I perfected a radical new design for the Pinewood Derby cars

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:05 PM (sYxEE)

88 So tell me why this jackass isn't being brought up under the Stolen Valor law?

Posted by: instinct at May 17, 2010 10:00 PM (tRumj)

He could be, I emailed them and they are tenacious. If you claim service in order to get benefits (like a job as a senator) you fall under the law sort of. Those guys that track that shit will if nothing else make his life miserable for awhile.

Posted by: robtr at May 17, 2010 06:06 PM (fwSHf)

89 Caw Caw Rawr!!!

Posted by: Dick Blumenthal, Wilderness Explorer at May 17, 2010 06:06 PM (QZVn4)

90 He absolutely was in Nam. He served on Swift Boats with me and Senator Kerry. We all received Decorations for Bravery for our three months of service

Posted by: Admiral Boorda at May 17, 2010 06:07 PM (rG4O2)

91 I still get a giggle at how the milblogs renamed Michael Patrick McManus Chan "General Ballduster McSoulpatch".

Posted by: Zimriel at May 17, 2010 06:07 PM (TjZdQ)

92 the guy's the real deal! we served together in Irack.

Posted by: Jesse Mcbeth at May 17, 2010 06:08 PM (SBIko)

93 Let me be perfectly clear:

I have not, nor ever will, claim to be a corpseman.

Posted by: Barack Obama, Author at May 17, 2010 06:08 PM (Mmw0q)

94 Atty General Blumenthal has my full endorsement for the senate seat in CT. 

His struggles and exploits while serving our country in Vietnam remind me of the hardships and hurdles I faced while inventing the internet.  You just don't find that type of courage very often.

Posted by: Al Gore at May 17, 2010 06:09 PM (YBTwf)

95 I was selected All American at QB from Harvard. The only reason I didn't win the Heismann was because the committee didn't want a Jew to win it

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:09 PM (sYxEE)

96 Was Crist there too? He looks like he may have been sprayed with Agent Orange...

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 17, 2010 06:10 PM (veaqz)

97 Dick Blumenthal was in charge of cleaning the grease traps in the galley on one of my re-fueling ships in the Hoth system. A real shit-bird. Had to bust his worthless ass out of the service.

Heard he got a job massaging Jabba the Hutt's prostate.

Posted by: Admiral Akbar, Rebel Alliance, Ret. at May 17, 2010 06:10 PM (QZVn4)

98 Also, I got fifteen O.W.L.s and twelve N.E.W.T.s while at Hogwarts. Only that bitch Hermione did better than me.

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:10 PM (qTAYx)

99 Next year, President Obama promises to keep the awesomeness at a mortal level so I can finally get the Nobel that I deserve.

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:12 PM (sYxEE)

100 O/T Finally the Mark Levin re-wind posted, they are slow today..

Posted by: KZnextzone at May 17, 2010 06:12 PM (veaqz)

101


The machinist, the one they called Chef, was from New Orleans. He was wrapped too tight in Jello Pudding covered plastic  for Vietnam; probably wrapped too tight for Bangkok .

Posted by: General "Iron Dick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:12 PM (t72+4)

102 I released the Kraken.

Posted by: Richard Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:13 PM (qTAYx)

103 New Haven, CT, 1970. I was the best cook Uncle Sam ever saw, slinging hash for the Fighting 103rd. As we marched north, our supply lines were getting thin. One day a couple of GIs found a crate, inside were six hundred pounds of prime Texas steer. At least it once was prime. The use date was three weeks past, but I was arrogant, I was brash, I thought if I used just the right spices, cooked it long enough... I went too far. I over seasoned it. Men were keeling over all around me. I can still hear the retching, the screaming. I sent sixteen of my own men to the latrines that night. They were just boys.

Posted by: Richard "Frank" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:13 PM (rzJpR)

104 Sgt Blumenthal sure did know his stuff in Vietnam.  That's all I've got to say about that.

Posted by: Forrest Gump at May 17, 2010 06:15 PM (YBTwf)

105 If this asswipe has claimed service at least 8 times publicaly he has also claimed it around his friends and acquantances. They will start coming out of the woodwork.

Posted by: robtr at May 17, 2010 06:15 PM (fwSHf)

106 Yeah, I was thinking of joining the Marines or some such back in the day *clears throut, spits, adjusts crotch*

I was going to go with Dick to enlist, but decided not to. Guess he went on and did it without me.

Posted by: Hardcore Hillary Clinton at May 17, 2010 06:17 PM (r8LqP)

107 Guest on Batchelor saying the guy got five deferments among them continuing his education at Harvard and studying over seas.  He apparently enlisted in the marine corps at the very end but was stationed in Washington. 

Do Selena is saying 12 PA is not going to ole arlen because of low low historically low turnout which batchelor seems to think indicates that Rendel has left ole arlen.

And then this story which they feel completely changes CT.

Posted by: curious at May 17, 2010 06:17 PM (p302b)

108

It was steamy,..... very steamy sailing up the Connecticut River. The mosquitos were on us like Garry Glitter on a Thai pre-school.

Posted by: General Richard "Iron Dick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:18 PM (t72+4)

109 Dick Blumenthal?  Never heard of him. 

Posted by: VC Charlie Gibson at May 17, 2010 06:18 PM (YBTwf)

110 throut = throat  (where'd I put that reset button)

Posted by: Hardcore Hillary Clinton at May 17, 2010 06:19 PM (r8LqP)

111 The man's enlarged my mind.  He's a poet-warrior in the classic sense.

Posted by: photojournalist at May 17, 2010 06:20 PM (XIXhw)

112 I'm sure this sounds antisemitic but I swear to God, the first time I saw a picture of this guy several years ago, I immediately thought he was the twin brother of Reinhard Heydrich, the thoroughly evil head of the SD under Heinrich Himmler.  Well, it seems the perfectly safe seat just became less so.

Posted by: DocinPA at May 17, 2010 06:22 PM (lWAR2)

113 Oh yeah I remember Dick (Blumenthal). I don't know if he saw any action in the field, bur he definitely got some action from me (and about half-a-dozen pretty nasty STD's).

Posted by: Tranny Vietnamese Hooker at May 17, 2010 06:22 PM (r8LqP)

114 I love the headline: "CandidateÂ’s Words on Vietnam Service Differ From History"

Baby, I didn't lie to you, my words just differ from history.

IRS guy, I didn't cheat on my taxes; the numbers just differ from history.


Posted by: ChuckC at May 17, 2010 06:23 PM (rLuF9)

115 Doesn't this bring GOP to 50 back in play?

Posted by: wtfci at May 17, 2010 06:25 PM (EbpbH)

116 Nah not at all odd timing, it works like this. Al-NYT and the newsies know they have destroyed their credibility with independents and the GOP on their ham handed snowjob for Barry so they'll sacrifice some dems for the next two years in ways that are as safe for the DNC as possible. This guy getting his comeuppance right now allows the CT donks the time needed to run either ned lament or Donk #234 against the GOP challenger while allowing Al-NYT to crow "we are too balanced".

*Oddly* when the time comes for campaign 2012 the amnesia and "odd timing" will occur. Had the CT AG been a plucky GOPer in exactly the same bind he'd have the story sprung on him the weekend before the election.

Believe it.

Person feeling most stupid over this scandal is Chris Dodd for obvious reasons.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:26 PM (e93wD)

117 Man, talk about walter mitty complex.

Posted by: Gecko45 mall Ninja at May 17, 2010 06:27 PM (e93wD)

118 This is the kind of common sense patriotism needed to rally Democrats this year. Polls will show a huge surge in support for Blumenthal as a result!

Posted by: slap-happy-wagon at May 17, 2010 06:27 PM (zzP3l)

119

120,

I think our retaking the Senate is both ill-advised and thankfully unlikely.  Our having the appearence of power with 50 seats would make expectations artifically high while empowering Slo-Joe Biden far beyond his worth.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:28 PM (e93wD)

120 You'd think they'd learn, after a while. Glad I'll never get close to this asswipe.

  Back in the early days of AOL, in the political chats, it was nearly a cottage industry busting the screen berets.. Stupid assholes to a man.

 I dodged the draft by enlisting and took 6, there was a couple of friends that weren't as lucky as me--seeing bipedal feces like Blumenthal claim kinship with guys who did time, without 5 deferments and DID see the elephant is beyond my descriptive power. Fucker dishonors the Marines.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 17, 2010 06:30 PM (ud5dN)

121 We were spread out on a ridge overlooking Rt. 91 near Enfield. We couldn't have been more than a few clicks from the Mass border. Intel said Charlie was holding up in the Cinemas in the Mall. My scouts said for once intel was tight. Thirty five VC were mixed in with the crowd waiting to see "Bullitt" Heh. They were going to see some bullets.

Posted by: Max "Asslick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:32 PM (ONBbr)

122 Must have meant "...since the days that I served during Vietnam..."

Posted by: Smapty at May 17, 2010 06:32 PM (bAySe)

123 Why do these guys think they can get away with this crap?

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 17, 2010 09:44 PM (iBTj9)

Because, up to now, they have always gotten away with it.  It has cost them votes, and sometimes elections (only sometimes), but they have always really gotten away with it.

Kerry, at least, built his lies out of exaggeration (Boone Pickens' million dollars is still offered to anyone who can prove something untrue among what the Swiftboat Vets for Truth said or wrote) and it cost him the election, for the most part (that, and his desire to surrender in Iraq) but his Senate seat is still safe.  Murtha did far worse, accusing the Haditha marines of murder in Congress ... and then didn't even have the decency to acknowledge that he was wrong, in the worst way.  He called his own constituents "racists", "bigots", and "idiots" and he still won.  Dems don't care about lying or far worse.

This might sink Blumenthal, in the current atmosphere, but only because of the uniqueness of this time, forced by the assault of the feral government on the citizenry and the nation since The Precedent came in.  Might.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 06:33 PM (Qp4DT)

124


At first I thought they handed me the wrong dossier. I couldn't believe they wanted this fine upstanding man and glorious piece of ass dead. Third Generation Cornell cow college, top of the animal husbandry class, ESPN, MSNBC, about a thousand Bukaki decorations, etc, etc...


Posted by: Richard "Iron Dick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:34 PM (t72+4)

125

127 irongrampa,

Hats off, I wish the wannabes who thump their chest while reminsicing over their PX duty got a day's taste of the fear and baggage that go with the harder angels of national service.

My time in the Army was peaceful and short.  There is enough honor for me in knowing I raised my right hand and tried, no need to "borrow" other men's deeds, pain, and pride for my own.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:35 PM (e93wD)

126

Doesn't this bring GOP to 50 back in play?

It's Connecticut.  If it isn't this Dem, it will be another Dem.


Posted by: Ira at May 17, 2010 06:39 PM (EW49d)

127 We advanced along the ridge until it dropped down into the Connecticut River. We were on one side Charlie was on the other. I ordered my men to rent paddle boats from Riverside Park, and we'd sneak up on Charlie like ducks on a snail.

Posted by: Max "Asslick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:39 PM (ONBbr)

128 Posted by: Gecko45 mall Ninja at May 17, 2010 10:27 PM (e93wD) Heh. That's some of the funniest shit ever.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 17, 2010 06:40 PM (9Lm5R)

129

130 PoP,

In the guys defense he likely is the rare democrat decent enough to feel shame over what his party did to the Vietnam Vets, he just couldn't resist making his shame over what was done to his fradulently self-inclusive "us"....

and yeah it is/was far too easy for the Mitty Marauders to get away with it for far too long.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:40 PM (e93wD)

130 lowandslow "General Ballduster McSoulpatch" Whatever happened with that?

Arrested in February. I presume at this point he's posted bail and awaiting a trial. (The courts are backed up around here, unfortunately.)

Posted by: Zimriel at May 17, 2010 06:41 PM (TjZdQ)

131 CT now in play....the last thing the Democrats needed.

BTW, one of the GOP contenders (Rob Simmons) served 19 months in 'Nam and won TWO bronze stars!

This is a gift the GOP cannot afford to waste.

Posted by: Chris R at May 17, 2010 06:41 PM (AO4qz)

132

135,

and oddly appropo, although there is nothing funny about the highstakes world of Mall Security and Personal protection......

 

heh

Posted by: Gecko45 mall Ninja at May 17, 2010 06:42 PM (e93wD)

133 #132--Sven---always maintained that ANYONE who served honorably in ANY capacity deserves to be honored for that service.


  Thank you, sir.

Posted by: irongrampa at May 17, 2010 06:42 PM (ud5dN)

134


It was quiet.....real quiet. Like Keith Olbermann making painstaking attempts to squat on a plunger in the shower without alerting his mother and alarming his cats .


It was that quiet.

Posted by: Richard "iron Dick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:42 PM (t72+4)

135

137,

please do tell I must have missed this one....

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:43 PM (e93wD)

136

The article went on to state that Blumenthal, often listed as Captain of the Harvard swim team, was never on the Harvard swim team

For proof of how disturbed this man is, look at it this way: lots of guys have lied about serving in combat.  They're all scum, but it's been done before.  How many people have lied about being Captain of the swim team when they were never on the swim team in the first place?  I mean, the SWIM TEAM.  That's really f***ed up. 

Posted by: joejm65 at May 17, 2010 06:44 PM (/HwV2)

137

140 IronGrampa,

I got hurt during my first contract, my wife is a better soldier than I ever was.  She has two tours in the Middle East under her belt and a combat action badge.  My blood boils at things like this, but as I said in a post above I think the guy was prob ably that rare democrat who legitimately felt guilt over what his fellow democrats did to you guys coming home and then screwed it up and went full Mitty.

Be safe

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:45 PM (e93wD)

138 Ballduster gets swept up: http://tinyurl.com/yz58sqj

Seriously, I can't claim any inside knowledge. I just remember this from last February and then quit following the story. If anyone knows any further details, please do put us some f'in' knowledge.

Posted by: Zimriel at May 17, 2010 06:45 PM (TjZdQ)

139

143 Posted by: joejm65 at May 17, 2010 10:44 PM (/HwV2) ,

wow that changes things a bit....he is just an idiot then....

That is so easy to check on, you sorta wonder why no Al-NYT fact checker came forth with the data no?

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:47 PM (e93wD)

140 I'm a veteran, who, by the way, killed Ho Chi Minh with my bare hands.  Seriously, people don't "forget"whether they were or were not in Vietnam.  He should be prosecuted.

Posted by: dan in michigan at May 17, 2010 06:48 PM (9jRMu)

141 Checked the statistics.  Toys for Tots was high risk.  Cleaning parks was a death sentence.

Posted by: dan in michigan at May 17, 2010 06:50 PM (9jRMu)

142

http://tinyurl.com/y9v9977

 

Got it...ah the McManus case.....now I recall a bit of it.

 

He was at that Democrat victory party dressed like a combination of Audie Murphy and Autie Custer.....

Good to know.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:50 PM (e93wD)

143

Hey, sven. Good to see you.

-->In the guys defense he likely is the rare democrat decent enough to feel shame over what his party did to the Vietnam Vets, he just couldn't resist making his shame over what was done to his fradulently self-inclusive "us"....

That's the whole thing, though, HE has to feel shame over the fact that he's a lowlife. Dems have figured out that they aren't even embarrassed about being lowlifes, anymore. They just push through this stuff and the public, usually forgets and loses interest, with the MFM covering. We have to rely on them having at least the tiniest, most infinitesimal sense of shame and propriety. I don't know Blumenthal, but I don't get a good feeling that he measures up. And, the public might force it this time, but that would only go to show how unique things are, now.

-->and yeah it is/was far too easy for the Mitty Marauders to get away with it for far too long.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 10:40 PM (e93wD)

I think that the absolutely insane way the dems have raped our governmental institutions, under the direction of the Indonesian Imbecile, and attacked the populace, has finally gone too far. I still think it's too late.  The federal government has gone feral and will not be domesticated, again.   We just won't make it through 2 1/2 more years with The Precedent, but it's nice that there is some defense being offered.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 06:51 PM (Qp4DT)

144

 I mean, the SWIM TEAM.  That's really f***ed up. 

Well, you must understand.  Simply EVERYONE at Harvard knows EVERYONE who was on the crew team.  I would have never gotten away with that, doncha know.

Posted by: Richard "Dickie" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 06:51 PM (EW49d)

145 This was in the news as we were leaving Fort Polk, had the old vets working as Role-Play for the JRTC pretty irritated.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 06:52 PM (e93wD)

146

Would someone please give me the name of one Democrat who hasn't lied about his involvement, or lack thereof, in Vietnam?

Posted by: BB at May 17, 2010 06:54 PM (qF8q3)

147 Goodbye Dick. I looked forward to watching Simmons kick your ass six ways to Sunday in the debates but c'est la vie. The early scuttlebutt is the Dems will run Chris Murphy instead, who is a weak ass candidate indeed but the Dems are scraping the barrel at this point. I hope they do as that also puts Murphy's District in play, which it was anyway. Look for the republicans to pick up 2 House and Dodd's seats come November. Yeah, they will be RINOs but at least they might be frugal, Hawkish RINOs.

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 06:55 PM (d2PJi)

148

Would someone please give me the name of one Democrat who hasn't lied about his involvement, or lack thereof, in Vietnam?

Posted by: BB at May 17, 2010 10:54 PM (qF8q3)


Jim Webb

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 06:55 PM (d2PJi)

149

143 Posted by: joejm65 at May 17, 2010 10:44 PM (/HwV2) ,

wow that changes things a bit....he is just an idiot then....

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 10:47 PM (e93wD) 

Big time.  This would be pathetically stupid beyond words. 

Wow, if true.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 06:56 PM (Qp4DT)

150

That is so easy to check on, you sorta wonder why no Al-NYT fact checker came forth with the data no?

We have newspapers here in Connecticut.  Apparently, none of them lifted a finger to do a shred of fact-checking on this guy.  No surprise... 

Posted by: joejm65 at May 17, 2010 06:57 PM (/HwV2)

151 Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 10:40 PM (e93wD)

Dick felt no shame. Instead he did it to be a beard for the out and out leftists and give them credibility on foreign policy and veterans issues. It's worse, not better.

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 06:58 PM (d2PJi)

152 This was in the news as we were leaving Fort Polk, had the old vets working as Role-Play for the JRTC pretty irritated. Anytime someone mentions JRTC, I have to smile.....since I went through a rotation when it was still at Ft. Chaffee. Consensus seems to be that swampy Ft. Polk is teh suck.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 17, 2010 06:58 PM (9Lm5R)

153 Yep, from the Slate article:

Son of a wealthy German immigrant, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard, captained the swim team, and was editorial chairman of the Harvard Crimson.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 07:01 PM (Qp4DT)

154 158

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 10:58 PM (d2PJi) ,\

Agreed, I was trying to give him the benefit of the doubt on why he started.  After finding out he lied about captaining the Harvard swim team it became clear he is just a liar and delusional.  Nailing a person who doesn't wear medals on their service record is not too easy-the person has to sign a release for the DD-214 like John kerry lied about being willing to do.

Add in the medals and the feds can investigate to their hearts content, but the harvard thing is so reckless it just shows he was thinking he had that ted Kennedy brand DonkAss armor that allows the newsies to set new records for idiocy.....

unreal.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:04 PM (e93wD)

155

159 Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 17, 2010 10:58 PM (9Lm5R) ,

I miss the people, and miss some of the place but at the end of the day I don't miss the rattlers or the the LoveBugs down in la la land......they ate the paint of my Buick with their acidic toxic blood.....felt like it was a minature version of Aliens

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:06 PM (e93wD)

156 I'm surprised there wasn't a former member of the Harvard swim team at Slate who knew that Blumenthal wasn't even on the friggin' team!  Of the readership, there have to be tons of Harvard swimmers.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 07:07 PM (Qp4DT)

157 I was born in 1976  and I served in Vietnam also. So what is the big deal.

Posted by: Barack Obama at May 17, 2010 07:08 PM (ALucN)

158

162 Anymoose,

on a more serious note I suspect that this guys Mitty complex is a manifestation of the Liberal "I want to do right injustice therefore I am entitled to do any wrong to do right" paradigm they all seem to incorporate into their epistomology at a young age.....

They see our current Opfor as having been "wronged" therefor they will do the minimum against the enemy they must to not cede power, but they save their harshest tactics and total hatred for their countrymen who disagree with their "crusade'.....

clinical actually.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:09 PM (e93wD)

159

165 PoP,

yeah I think they were covering down and winking at him fooling the rubes....

the only thing worse would've been trying to claim he was captain of the Harvard Rowing Team or something.....

surreal.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:10 PM (e93wD)

160

166 Obamacles,

er uh um I was like 9 when Billy Ayers was trying to "educate" the NCO ball at Fort Dix.....

honest indonesian!

Posted by: Barack T. Ogabe esq. at May 17, 2010 07:11 PM (e93wD)

161 I love the smell of naplam in the morining...It smells like a Republican Victory,!  Son, Some day this shit bag Obama will be out of office...

Posted by: Lt Col. Kilgore at May 17, 2010 07:11 PM (ALucN)

162

It was on my deep insertion mission behind Khmer Rouge lines in Paris that I gave Blumenthal my magic Hat, and indirectly herpres via that stewardess we shared....

by the way I served in vietnam you know?

Posted by: .50 Kerry at May 17, 2010 07:13 PM (e93wD)

163 What a Posner!

Posted by: Reiver at May 17, 2010 07:14 PM (eQFuE)

164

170 Col. Kilgore,

Freakin' savages won't they ever give up?

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:14 PM (e93wD)

165 I was there with Blumenthal... We shared rice on the Ho Chi Min trail firing AAA at B-52D's dropping snake-eyes on the innocent Viet Cong. Say lay off of the man.... OK!!!

Posted by: Jane Fonda at May 17, 2010 07:14 PM (ALucN)

166 Fucking Nuke them.... Pig after Pig.... Cow after Cow.... I hate them... Those Fucking Gooks...

Posted by: Col Kurtz and Blumenthal After ARC Light Mission at May 17, 2010 07:16 PM (ALucN)

167

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 11:10 PM (e93wD)

The weirdest part is that Blumenthal is probably very smart and had serious accomplishments at Harvard worthy of bragging about.  He must just be a pathological liar, in the most clinical sense.  Blumenthal must be so twisted that the average person could see it in a PET scan.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 07:17 PM (Qp4DT)

168 WTF is it with people named 'Blumenthal' and the Democratic Party? First Slimy Sid and now this guy. And now we'll see what's wrong with the people of Connecticut...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 17, 2010 07:20 PM (EGNY1)

169 Hartford, Hartford, Hartford... we've all been there...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 17, 2010 07:21 PM (EGNY1)

170 Nuke them to they glow, then use their ass's for runway lights to land the B-52's after the Nuclear Strike.......

Posted by: Chief of Staff Blumenthal to Gen Curtis Lemay at May 17, 2010 07:21 PM (ALucN)

171 You can never get too much of this piece of dem combat recollections.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 07:22 PM (Qp4DT)

172

176 PoP,

Yeah that is what I'm thinking.  Wonder if the Newsies will have a sidden epiphany as Ogabe leaves office that he may well have been "less than forthright" on the issues?

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:23 PM (e93wD)

173 We bombed the shit out of the Gooks in Laos and Cambodia.  I supported Nixon during Linebacker II. Those bastards diserve to die. Ahhh...What Dear.... I was dreaming about torching Gooks in Vietnam... Wow what a bad dream, but we can use this during our campaign...no one will know or find out......

Posted by: General Blumenthal USAF (Ret) Vietnam at May 17, 2010 07:28 PM (ALucN)

174 Wonder if the Newsies will have a sidden epiphany as Ogabe leaves office that he may well have been "less than forthright" on the issues?

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 11:23 PM (e93wD)

When the MFM gets scared, they might.  But they are in on this fight, with The Precedent and the Washington junta, to the very end.  The Precedent and the MFM are going to try to burn this nation down before it all comes crashing in on them.  I think that only The Precedent had this intention from the beginning, but he drew the Dems and the MFM in far enough (and then some, though they went perfectly willingly, even enthusiastically) that they are committed, too.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 07:28 PM (Qp4DT)

175

180 PoP,

I hear Ron "Iceman" Brown was KIA in a dogfight with a Mig-39 in reality.....

 

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:29 PM (e93wD)

176

183 PoP,

Yeah pretty much.....Chris Tingle is now saying that Captain Eloquence of the USS Hope'N'Change has a duty to nationalize the entire oil industry....

 

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:30 PM (e93wD)

177 For anyone who wants a good laugh, go to the Times article and read the comments.  Apparently, Bush did this too...

Posted by: joejm65 at May 17, 2010 07:33 PM (/HwV2)

178 I wanted to level Hanoi and Haiphong , but that Commie Lib Cocksucker Lemay said NO... Fucker, If you would have listened to me...Vietnam would be hosting Disneyland Asia Today...

Posted by: General Blumenthal USAF (Ret) Vietnam Commie Hater at May 17, 2010 07:35 PM (ALucN)

179

186,

Yeah I am certain the Newsies "gave him the pass they are denying Blumenthal"....

it is surreal....Ogabe wound up taking back custody of the "new Bull market" since the DJIA somehow went Rocky from Rocky 3 and 4 and stumbled across the bell dying but gaining 5.67 points.....

"over adversity"

yeah the reporting is just the same as it was during the Bush years....you know when the same newsies would say of a 142 point increase "slow rate of increase shows market concerns over bush economic policy".....

 

"what media bias"?

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:35 PM (e93wD)

180

The Japanese used to have a term for such useless people : a Human Fertilizer Machine.

(which is what they used to call Tom Harkin)

Posted by: NTTAWWT at May 17, 2010 07:35 PM (lQRmV)

181 If I was alive today I would for Richard Blumenthal. He served brilliantly in Vietnam with me, I mean against me....

Posted by: Ho Chi Minh at May 17, 2010 07:38 PM (ALucN)

182 WAit, it gets BETTER. Blumenthal is now calling the NYT's story a 'hit piece' and his press secretary has released a written statement: ============================= The New York Times story is an outrageous distortion of Dick Blumenthal’s record of service,” Blumenthal’s campaign manager, Mindy Myers, said in a statement. “Unlike many of his peers, Dick Blumenthal voluntarily joined the Marine Corps Reserves in 1970 and served for six months in Parris Island, SC and six years in the reserves. He received no special treatment from anyone.” Previewing a campaign event tomorrow, Myers wrote that “Dick has a long record of standing up for veterans. Tomorrow, veterans will be standing up with Dick.” Blumenthal will hold a news conference tomorrow. He will be flanked by veterans. ========================= Hey, veterans as props? Where have I seen that before?

Posted by: manofaiki at May 17, 2010 07:42 PM (uSh7j)

183 It must have been all those Ho Chi Minh tee shirts he and his SDS democrap antiwar protesters were wearing back in the day, that must have confused Mr. Blumenthal. Or maybe it was a tour of Vietnam and Cambodia at Christmas, that he might have taken with Jean Fraude Ketchup? Or possibly he went along to North Vietnam with Hanoi Jane Fondue, and remembers those glory days fondly?
Or maybe he participated in the Winter Soldiers Show Trials, and his hippy dippy LSD street theatre anti american performances stuck with him through forty years? Or maybe he'll claim that he's being swiftboated? Or that the story is true even if the facts can't be verified because Bush destroyed his service records to sabotage his campaign. I'm sure Blumenthal's service records are safe and sound with Obama's long form birth certificate. Anyway, I'm sure the democraps will be able to dig up another democrap warrior to run in CT, there are just sooo many patriots there, what with Yale Law School leading the pack.

Posted by: eaglewingz08 at May 17, 2010 07:43 PM (lFaac)

184 Scott Coen of Masslive, NPR, The NYT...all of them are piling on Dick, saying he lied and misrepresented himself. These are liberals piling on, what gives? The MSM doesn't eat one of their own this quickly without a plan in place.

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 07:50 PM (d2PJi)

185 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 17, 2010 11:47 PM (wk1nH)

You're wrong. They might have bit the bullet and voted for him anyway if this dropped 3 weeks out from the general election but not this far in advance.

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 07:52 PM (d2PJi)

186 Vietnam?  Thought Blumenthal helped Patton and Obama's uncle liberate Poland?

Posted by: Crusty at May 17, 2010 07:52 PM (qzgbP)

187



It was quiet....quiet like sneaking up on a band of tricker treaters with a Sailor Bob mask on and wielding a stabby dildo,,,,and steamy...oh god steamy...and hot. I was outflanked by the resistanceÂ…Â… outflanked like having my asshole outflanked by NAMBLA and a Catholic monastery.

Posted by: General Richard "Iron Dick" Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 07:56 PM (t72+4)

188

195 Rocks,

they are feebly grabbing back some of their spent "credibility"....they know this far out they can run another donk.....they'll probably resurrect ned lament for the job

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 07:58 PM (e93wD)

189 I think you might see a push from Lamont as he's an egomaniac but he won't gain any traction. Lamont spent too much time mouthing off after losing to Lieberman. I don't hear anyone say anything good about him any more.

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 08:05 PM (d2PJi)

190 Besides, he's already running for Governor.

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 08:06 PM (d2PJi)

191 "Every minute I stay in this room I get weaker. And every minute Peter Schiff squats in the bush he gets stronger." BTW, Ned Lamont is already running for gov in CT. He's probably been kicking himself in the ass for the last twenty minutes.

Posted by: BuddyPC at May 17, 2010 08:08 PM (N/Bgb)

192

Ned lament is egomaniacal enough to try a darkhorse and run for both unless explicitly precluded by lw, and even then he may go for the "Lautenberg express" vis a vis donks courts......

 

believe it.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 17, 2010 08:09 PM (e93wD)

193

believe it.

Posted by: sven10077 at May 18, 2010 12:09 AM (e93wD)

I was thinking the exact same thing.  After all, Biden just ran for Senate and Vice Precedent at the same time.

Dems love that shit because they are nothing but despicable, lying scumbags.

Posted by: progressoverpeace at May 17, 2010 08:13 PM (Qp4DT)

194 On my 2nd "tour" in Vietnam I would often wake up screaming, thinking I was in Connecticut.

Posted by: Musket Man at May 17, 2010 08:16 PM (H1QfQ)

195
Listen to internet radio for WTIC in Hartford at 9:00 AM tomorrow and see what Jim Vicevich does with it. If he can get traction, then it might damage Blumenthal, but it is highly unlikely.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at May 17, 2010 08:17 PM (x7MwC)

196 This is Vicevich"s blog:

http://radioviceonline.com/



Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at May 17, 2010 08:20 PM (x7MwC)

197 Google the news for Blumenthal. Every paper, most of them liberal,  and news organization will have this as the top issue in the morning. Not only will it have traction it's already sprinting.  Dick may survive this but it's going to be a very rough 2 weeks.

Posted by: Rocks at May 17, 2010 08:25 PM (d2PJi)

198 Flashbazzo-

It's the top stories on the websites of 3 of the 4 major Connecticut TV stations, and second on the other, due to breaking news.  It's also tops on the Hartford Courant's website.  This will get play.

Whether it is the beginning of the end for Blumenthal remains to be seen, though.

Posted by: cinyc at May 17, 2010 08:25 PM (6oqXG)

199 I really hope you guys are right, but I've been so disappointed in this state that I dare not get enthused about anything.

Blumenthal came in at the end of the Bailey Boys era.   It was the east coast version of the Daleys.

Posted by: flashbazzbo, s.e. at May 17, 2010 08:29 PM (x7MwC)

200 He definitely puts the I in slime.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 17, 2010 08:30 PM (rurh0)

201 I am currently the Atty Gen for Connecticut and a Senate candidate.  Oh yeah, and A LYING SACK OF SHIT

Posted by: Little Dick Blumenthal at May 17, 2010 08:44 PM (Glxw+)

202

Why do I keep thinking about driving a nail through his forehead slowly with a 12 oz hammer?

Maybe I said that wrong. I meant maybe we could have a Beer Summit.

Posted by: Musket Man at May 17, 2010 08:54 PM (H1QfQ)

203 Are we going to have an overnight thread tonight? Because I've got important things to say which I can barely keep unsaid. Like, "Pukey titties."

Posted by: Cowboy at May 17, 2010 08:54 PM (XYcTY)

204

Hey Dick Blumenthal was awarded a varsity letter in the  "breast stroke" from the girls at Radcliffe back in the day.  It was his press secretary who screwed up and thought the letter meant he was on the swim team.

And old Dicky went on to see some action in a real combat zone as a teacher in one of the inner city schools in Washington D.C.

And we're just lucky that Dicky didn't claim three Purple Hearts for (1) a smashed thumb; (2) a splinter in his finger while fixing a park tent deck with his USMC unit; and (3) a phony one just for the hell of it.   I mean somebody has to keep up with John Kerry, and there aren't any rice baskets around to throw a concussion grenade into.

Posted by: Comanche Voter at May 17, 2010 08:58 PM (ktYjH)

205 It makes one wonder what else he has in his closet.  This sort of thing does not normally disqualify a Democrat candidate.

Posted by: A Balrog of Morgoth at May 17, 2010 09:24 PM (ZESU0)

206 Hmmmm.

I remember when my buddy Al used a blooper on those Hessian bastards at the Battle of Trenton.  I was yelling to my buddy, Al, "Hey Al get up here man!  Oh for the love of God you ain't got no legs!?".

That was before General George Washington had to nuke Baltimore.

Posted by: Mullah Biden at May 17, 2010 09:39 PM (MwCol)

207 That's outrageous!

Posted by: rockley63@hotmail.com at May 17, 2010 09:47 PM (RykTt)

208 Now, compare Blumenthal's record, and his presentation of that record, with that of W.

The records are pretty comparable, both wangled stateside reserve billets once it was pretty apparent that the war was no longer the 'good war' it'd looked like when Kerry had gone off to get his combat ticket punched a couple years earlier,

Of course, W never fibbed about it, though that didn't stop the press from chewing on him.

Ordinarily Blumenthal could count on the usual Democrat-media double-standard to protect him, but he may have been telling tales too long and too publicly for them to cover his butt this time.

It'd be nice if we were able to say "Wow, those Times guys smacked one out of the park" but since it's the Times we're left asking "How long have they known and why did they decide to go with it now?"

I'm going to presume they found out someone else has been sniffing around, they concluded that it'd come out anyway, and they'd therefore pull the trigger far enough in advance of the candidacy deadlines to give the Dems a couple days to do some polling and decide if he's fatally wounded as a candidate.

Posted by: mrkwong at May 17, 2010 10:01 PM (G8Eo0)

209 Johnny. Johnny! JOHNNY!!!!

Posted by: Principal Skinner at May 17, 2010 10:04 PM (Bu9Jo)

210 Jesse Ventura was caught doing the same thing.

(He wasn't a SEAL and wasn't in Vietnam)

Posted by: Boxy Brown at May 17, 2010 10:10 PM (PWM6Q)

211

I think mrkwong has summed it up rather nicely.

The only question remaining, given his analysis, is that it is too perfect. It is cynical, yes, but also so on-target that it you know it's true, or something very close to it is true, and that's verfied through experience.

Whats disturbing is when you ask, "Why don't people realize the wisdom of these words?" Because the answer is, "They do."

Then, it hits you: "They don't care; they don't give a damn about the corruption of the NYT and political establishment and all. They just don't give a damn at all. Worse: they do give a damn, as long as it serves their interest. Otherwise, fuck you."

Ahhhh -- back in the New York Groove!

Corrupt, so corrupt, these leftists. You can't argue with them or even show how corrupt they are, because their supporters don't give a damn, so why should they give a damn?

They just do; they do what they're sent to do; that's all the infernal bastards do.

Posted by: Cowboy at May 17, 2010 10:14 PM (XYcTY)

212 Oh, and "mo' pukey titties."

Posted by: Cowboy at May 17, 2010 10:16 PM (XYcTY)

213

I served in WWII and WWI and the Spanish American War and the Civil War (a total of 2 years with the Union side and a total of 2 years with the Confederate side) and in The Revolutionary War and oh, with Charles Martle at the Battle of Tours. I was his XO.

Can a be a U.S. Senator from Connecticut? Do I qualify?

Posted by: FeralCat at May 17, 2010 10:18 PM (w8TlU)

214

Back in the Summer of Love in da Nam, I was 2 years old. But, try telling that to my hardass CO, who had me going on an upriver infiltration misson. I was sent to kill this colonel named "Kurtz",

but before that,, realize ...

Posted by: Cowboy at May 17, 2010 10:18 PM (XYcTY)

215 There's no "if" here. He's done. Obama's entire 'God bless the troops' shtick is predicated on cutting off this sort of thing at the knees. The essence of what Blumenthal did by saying this is to dishonor those who died in Nam, those who served and died after, those who were wounded horribly yet live in hardship and pain, repeat for every military action since then, repeat for Iraq, repeat for Afghanistan. Reagan sort of did this, but he was staring to show signs of Alzheimers and he was late in his last term; his heart was in the right place. This guy was just going for a cheap reach around, and it was a pure evil lie. There is some nice irony here: from now on, he can sort of claim a Viet Nam War wound; and for that he's about to get the Perp Heart.

Posted by: Al Bundy's conscience at May 17, 2010 10:27 PM (zfRju)

216 FUCK YOU!  BLUMINTHOL KICKS ALL REICH WING FUCKING ASS!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: KayInMaine at May 17, 2010 11:20 PM (3JEuT)

217 All I can say is what an asshole. Also, if I am not mistaken there is now a federal law on the books making this a crime.

Of course no Democrat ever gets prosecuted while Holder is in office.

Posted by: Vic at May 17, 2010 11:27 PM (6taRI)

218 118 Oh yeah I remember Dick (Blumenthal). I don't know if he saw any action in the field, bur he definitely got some action from me (and about half-a-dozen pretty nasty STD's).

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Posted by: The Vietnamese Chicken at May 17, 2010 11:51 PM (Lt+t9)

219 138 CT now in play....the last thing the Democrats needed.

BTW, one of the GOP contenders (Rob Simmons) served 19 months in 'Nam and won TWO bronze stars!

This is a gift the GOP cannot afford to waste.

Posted by: Chris R at May 17, 2010 10:41 PM (AO4qz)

Oh yes we can!

Posted by: Michael Steele at May 17, 2010 11:52 PM (Lt+t9)

220 I was a Roman soldier who helped put Jesus on the cross. I regret my youthful stupity, but I cannot tell a lie.

Posted by: Riccardo Washington Blumenthal at May 18, 2010 03:10 AM (gbCNS)

221

Maybe he can claim post-traumatic stress from...something or other...

What an f-ing moron. What is it with these stupid politicians? They think nobody's going to check?

Posted by: JEA at May 18, 2010 03:12 AM (AfORa)

222 23 pieces of spam overnight! Jeepers.

*zap

Posted by: lauraw at May 18, 2010 03:49 AM (DbybK)

223 JEA, apparently he's been caught before and never had to deal with any fallout. If you're on the correct side, you can make up all these fun fantasies about yourself and the press will let it glide.

It's good to be a Democrat. Or, it used to be.

This year it's going to suck donkey balls.

Posted by: lauraw at May 18, 2010 03:50 AM (DbybK)

224 I suspect that the NYT new about this for a long time and sat on it until someone else was about to drop the dime and rat them both out.

Posted by: Vic at May 18, 2010 03:57 AM (6taRI)

225 I pinned the purple heart on Joan of Arc's chest after she was after she was burned at the stake.  I wake screaming from that traums, but the vets benefits for my PTSD is more than enough thanks from this great country. I would never ask for political points for that service, but I'll gladly accept an NFL Draft jersey.

Posted by: General Riccardo Washington Blumenthal at May 18, 2010 03:58 AM (gbCNS)

226 23 pieces of spam overnight! Jeepers.

*zap

Posted by: lauraw at May 18, 2010 07:49 AM (DbybK)

One of the other posters said that a large percentage of the server storage was actually being eat up with spam. Even the archives are getting hit with spam now. 

Posted by: Vic at May 18, 2010 03:59 AM (6taRI)

227 You just know this dope swaped many stories with other folks in private conversations regarding this lie.  How he can even show his head in public ever again is beyond understanding.

Posted by: Moemo at May 18, 2010 04:31 AM (JDrQ3)

228 Looks like the headlines about this are going to lead with "GOP says".

Posted by: kansas at May 18, 2010 04:34 AM (2kVkH)

229

He was just ahead of his time in seeking that new Excessive Restraint Medal.  

Posted by: Sean at May 18, 2010 04:37 AM (9Gi0o)

230
It doesn't matter, Democrats are allowed to lie.

Take your corruptocrat dictator, and like it!

Posted by: Lemon Kitten at May 18, 2010 04:49 AM (0fzsA)

231 Remember that a-hole about 6 months ago who got nabbed for Stolen Valor?

"I tell ya what, it's seared in mah hayd, seared in mah hayd..."

Posted by: Corona at May 18, 2010 04:49 AM (woZIc)

232 His lies are a resume enhancement anywhere in the northeast. Bet he wins anyway.

Posted by: A Casual Observation at May 18, 2010 05:07 AM (ITzbJ)

233

7.62 milimeter...Full Metal Jacket!!!!!! Yea I torched the Gooks on the Ho Chi Minh trail with the CIA, Air America, and Col Kurtz. I am proud of what I did and would do it again for President Obama. So stuff it -- you panty waste Republitards with balls the size of a fruit fly !!!!!!

Posted by: Col Blumenthal (US Army Special Forces) at May 18, 2010 05:11 AM (k7Ddt)

234 You want the truth Mr and Mrs CT???? You want the truth ??? Let me tell you something...You want me on the that barstool, you need me on that barstool.....Deep down in places where you hide, you bad mouth me about the freedom I provide all you here in CT.... I wish you would just say thank you and move on because I don't give a damn what you think !!!!! Your Goddamn right I lied about Vietnam !! What I am being charged with a crime...You Fucking Americans no nothing about defending a liberal northeast state like CT !!!!!!!!! I am getting me hat and going back to DC for a coctail party !!!!

Posted by: Col Blumenthal (Commanding Officer , GITMO Bar) at May 18, 2010 05:22 AM (k7Ddt)

235 Look at the bright side. At least Blumenthal didn't kill a 2-year-old baby like John Kerry. And Bush flew an incredibly unreliable and dangerous jet fighter. Blumenthal ran a Toys for Tots box.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at May 18, 2010 05:47 AM (2J8Q6)

236 Blumenthal is my hero.

Posted by: Jesse Macbeth at May 18, 2010 05:48 AM (2J8Q6)

237 Mine too!

Posted by: Scott Beaumont at May 18, 2010 05:49 AM (2J8Q6)

238 Mark Ambinder in the Atlantic sets the spin:  Connecticut Attorney General Dick Blumenthal is denying a New York Times report that he routinely lied about his service in Vietnam.

Note the subtle lie Ambinder slips in to give the lying Blumenthal the out:  That the Times is claiming he "routinely" lied about his service in Vietnam. 

This allows the liar to say (indignantly, surely) 'I may have misspoken once or twice but on many occasions I clearly said I never served in Vietnam.  So *it's obvious* that I wasn't trying to mislead anyone.'

To me, Ambinder's clever (but mendacious) defense of a caught-dead-to-rights Democrat pol should disqualify him from any journalistic position.  And of course Blumie should be toast.  But as others have noted above, in CT opposition to all things military, and lying about having served, are *positive attributes.*

Posted by: sf at May 18, 2010 05:52 AM (eSMQV)

239 I knew Bloomy in the 1960's. Bloomy was a friend of mine. Sir, You are no Bloomy !!!!!!!

Posted by: Ho Chi Minh at May 18, 2010 06:00 AM (k7Ddt)

240 It's just so exciting that Connecticut seems to matter for just one shining moment. Oh, and the Dodd thing. And Lieberman/ Lamont the last time.

Yeah, ok...too bad we only matter when things are for shit.

Posted by: lauraw at May 18, 2010 06:02 AM (WcLow)

241 You Lib idiots in CT. You deserve what you get. I hope Bllumenthal wins and your economy goes down the shitter. Maybe you will understand what the USA really stands for ???

Posted by: Buster Hymand at May 18, 2010 06:07 AM (k7Ddt)

242 Buster, please take this in the kindest possible way, which is how I intend it: go eat a rancid cock and die of a lip infection.

Posted by: lauraw at May 18, 2010 06:11 AM (WcLow)

243

Lauraw,

 Leave my delicate, supple, pink, soft, collagen enhanced lips out of the conversation !!!!!!

 

Posted by: Buster Hymand at May 18, 2010 06:26 AM (k7Ddt)

244

Blumenthal is one of the most santimonious nanny-state pricks on the planet. Of course, he's wildly popular in CT, red diaper capitol of the Northeast.

This couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Conspiracy theory time - perhaps Blumenthal had something else that was about to come out, which would have been much more damaging to the Democrat brand than some Stolen Valor remarks - something a little more Spitzer like. So the Dems, through their proxy the NYT, spike his campaign with this 'little peccadillo' (to progressives and many moderates, that is) in order to limit the damage.

 

 

Posted by: West at May 18, 2010 06:29 AM (1Rgee)

245 Don't switch Dicks in the middle of a screw, vote for Blumenthal on November 2!    What an asshole.

Posted by: raisin at May 18, 2010 07:49 AM (8NiWI)

246

And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
    Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
    And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
    That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.

Posted by: theCork at May 18, 2010 07:50 AM (zL5Q1)

247 Scott Coen of Masslive, NPR, The NYT...all of them are piling on Dick, saying he lied and misrepresented himself.

During All (liberal) Things Considered on NPR this morning they were playing the less incriminating audio and blaming the teabaggers for creating this non-troversy.

Posted by: John Galt at May 18, 2010 08:09 AM (F/4zf)

248 Is Blumenthal the POS AG from Connecticut that was going to "expose" the AIG workers for having the unpatriotic gall of working for their contractual salaries?

Posted by: FireHorse at May 18, 2010 08:26 AM (cQyWA)

249

I am glad that Mr. Blumenthal was caught in his lies, exaggerations and misstatements and I am amazed that the New York Times actually reported his party in the 3rd paragraph (usually, they avoid ever mentioning party when a Democrat is caught, while even the smallest Republican faux pas will be identifed "REPUBLICAN' in the first sentence).

However, there *is* a larger truth in Mr. Blumenthal's misstatements. The Left was well known for disrespecting military personnel, whether they came back from Vietnam, Germany, Korea or were entirely stateside. My older cousins serving at the time always changed into civvies as soon as they could to avoid hassles.

Posted by: Curmudgeon at May 18, 2010 08:33 AM (ujg0T)

250

Remember all that Shit about Bush and how we must understand the artistic view point on his assassination in a book/movie. Now someone has done the same thing about our Dear Leader and the MFM goes crazy...........

A Jefferson County teacher picked the wrong example when he used as­sassinating President Bar­ack Obama as a way to teach angles to his geome­try students.


Someone alerted autho­rities and the Corner High School math teacher was questioned by the Secret Service, but was not taken into custody or charged with any crime.



"We did not find a credible threat," said Roy Sex­ton, special agent in charge of Birmingham's Secret Service office. "As far as the Secret Service is concerned, we looked into it, we talked to the gentleman and we have closed our investigation."



A Corner High geometry teacher picked the wrong example, President Barack Obama, to use in a lesson on angles. The lesson resulted in a Secret Service investigation. (AP) Sexton said he generally doesn't discuss threat cases, but confirmed his of­fice investigated the inci­dent. No federal charges followed the probe.



The teacher was appar­ently teaching his geometry students about parallel lines and angles, officials said. He used the example of where to stand and aim if shooting Obama.



"He was talking about angles and said, 'If you're in this building, you would need to take this angle to shoot the president,' " said Joseph Brown, a senior in the geometry class.



Efforts to reach the teacher for comment Mon­day were unsuccessful.

 Superintendent Phil Hammonds said the teacher remains at work, and there are no plans for termination.



"We are going to have a long conversation with him about what's appropriate," Hammonds said. "It was extremely poor judgment on his part, and a poor choice of words."



Caroline Polk, the parent of a ninth-grader at the school, said she doesn't be­lieve the teacher ought to be fired.



"We all make mistakes, and we should be able to learn from our mistakes," she said. "What he said was just wrong and inappropri­ate. Everyone's got their own opinions, but we have to be aware of our sur­roundings. At this point, it just needs to be handled in a way that it won't be re­peated."

Posted by: Silence DoGood at May 18, 2010 08:52 AM (k7Ddt)

251

I earned my general's rank the same day that I passed the bar. I'm a humble man, but I had to accept the title of Attorney General by default.

Posted by: General Riccardo Washington Blumenthal at May 18, 2010 08:56 AM (gbCNS)

252 He still has the hat.

Posted by: damian at May 18, 2010 09:25 AM (4WbTI)

253 I served with him, you fags!

Posted by: Proud Liberal Vet at May 18, 2010 09:32 AM (VDgKF)

254

some Blumenthal war experiences you weren't aware of:

Battle of the Chateaubriand
Guacamole Canal
Iwo Jicama
Battle of Balogna
The Seven Course War
The Seige of Asti Spumante
The Bottle of Burgundy

Apparently DC is a very dangerous place.

Posted by: mark c at May 18, 2010 09:40 AM (SBIko)

255

The man served during the Vietnam war as a Marine Reservist, He should be thanked for his service.

Many men and women served during the Vietnam war estimates are about three million. One million men served inside Vietnam or in the Tonkin Gulf. Many more served in Guam, Thailand and other bases that supported the war effort.

Many men also served in Europe, and other locations during the Vietnam war.

Everyman who served during this era felt the scorn from his fellow American's not just the veterans who served in country or afloat in the Tonkin Gulf.

He is one of the ones who served during the Vietnam war, "We veterans" as he said and he is one of the three million of us, the We who served.

"All gave Some, Some gave all."

Semper Fi

Posted by: HEP-T at May 18, 2010 11:47 AM (H7JNF)

256 I think there is a DD 214, or something like that, he can produce if he isn't a lying sack of shit. Which he is.

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