Sore Loser Cleland linked to Source of Forgery

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In an Aug. 21 posting, Burkett referred to a conversation with former senator Max Cleland (D-Ga.) about the need to counteract Republican tactics: "I asked if they wanted to counterattack or ride this to ground and outlast it, not spending any money. He said counterattack. So I gave them the information to do it with. But none of them have called me back."

Cleland confirmed that he had a two- or three-minute conversation by cell phone with a Texan named Burkett in mid-August while he was on a car ride. He remembers Burkett saying that he had "valuable" information about Bush, and asking what he should with it. "I told him to contact the [Kerry] campaign," Cleland said. "You get this information tens of times a day, and you don't know if it is legit or not."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A30043-2004Sep17?language=printer

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In Vietnam, he lost 3 limbs.  Yes, he lost them picking up a grenade on a training range when heading back for a beer, but so what..?

You have to be kidding me, because I was under the impression from all the Dems crying, "it is an outrage to throw this man out of the Senate", that Cleland lost those limbs while fighting an entire army!!!

My pastor went to Vietnam and went through the same training and didn't blow himself up through some mistake of his own - so am I to consider Cleland more of a hero than my pastor simply because Cleland makes a mistake in training leading to his loss of three limbs?

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In Vietnam, he lost 3 limbs.  Yes, he lost them picking up a grenade on a training range when heading back for a beer, but so what..?

You have to be kidding me, because I was under the impression from all the Dems crying, "it is an outrage to throw this man out of the Senate", that Cleland lost those limbs while fighting an entire army!!!

My pastor went to Vietnam and went through the same training and didn't blow himself up through some mistake of his own - so am I to consider Cleland more of a hero than my pastor simply because Cleland makes a mistake in training leading to his loss of three limbs?

Did he say it made him any more of a hero than any other Veteran? No, he said it doesn't STOP him being a hero. You mis-interpreted what he said.

I'm not misquoting him at all.  I didn't know how he lost his limbs, I simply assumed, through all the fuss of "the grevious error" of throwing him out of the Senate ,that he was some great war hero because "he left three limbs in the mud of Vietnam".

But now, I find out that he lost those limbs through his own mistake in a training exercise.

My point was that he isn't the "hero" the Dems make him out to be.  He is indeed a hero, but he is no more of a hero than anyone else who served in Vietnam.  What sets Cleland apart is the fact he lost three limbs by screwing up.