How can you possibly respond to crap like this??

[SilasSoule]

A post from another board that I frequent. These people give me a severe case of nausea.


You know what really is a shame Max Cleland. Wheeling his wheel chair thrugh the hot Texas sun to deliver a letter for Kerrys SELF INFICTED wound purple heart, when Clealand has no legs from a self inflicted wound and he has NO PURPLE HEART?????????????

[The Straight Story]

1. Don't waste time responding

Use that time to send something factual and relevant to someone who does not know about it. Like some slick legislation the bushmeister and crew are tacking to something.

Don't let these people divert us from the real issues which have substance or we will get sucked into a battle of weekly world news proportions. We don't need to win over voters with this kind of crap like they do, quick hits - hope they swing a vote - then forget about the person, we can win them over and keep them over with facts and ideas that stick with em.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

2. i know how

Ready? You say, no that's not what really is a shame. No, what really is a shame is making fun of veterans who have fought and been maimed for this country. Then revive the old, "Have you no sense of decency sir?"

[liberalmuse]

3. Don't bother...

these people are suffering from self-inflicted stupidity.

[A_Possum]

4. Nice blog comment on this

At joeuser.com

To suggest that Kerry was awarded three Purple Hearts for “self-afflicted” wounds, is, of course, pure navy scuttlebutt . Only civilians, who have no understanding of the deadly power of U.S. weapons, would be gullible to find it believable of a person running for office whom they despise. However, for fellow veterans who would suggest such a thing and thereby reduce war to joke should be under suspicion themselves for ever really engaging the enemy.

In combat, it is possible to be victimized by uncontrollable fear — we called that Island Happy — by making a mistake, such as pausing too long in squeezing the trigger or the pull of a grenade and wind up with a bayonet in your gut, or simply too lazy to dig a foxhole or stupidly to remove a helmet while under a Nambu or mortar attack, resulting in a Purple Heart. Training, along with self-preservation — usually obviates such cases, or at least, held to a minimum. So called light wounds that temporarily disable a fighter, requiring treatment, is sent to triage, patched up and rested for a time before returned to the front, whereupon he would look gung-ho courting a bloody bandage, his red badge of courage. Though he might have assumed eligibility for a Purple Heart, it is never the victim’s prerogative to demand nor even request it, as it all depends on medical records and the intensity at the moment of treating the seriously wounded in triage.


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Nice comments following too.