John Murtha
Mostly Cajun
looks at John Murtha and has a little problem with Murtha's consistency:
Remember John Murtha?
He’s ths dummocratic congressman who touted his own service in the Marines during his anti-bush, anti-war rants.
Well, I’m starting to understand Mr. Murtha. Seems he’s kinda like Mr. John “F*ck you buddies” Kerry in the way that he remembers his wartime service. Things seem to change. Murtha waves his two Purple Hearts around a lot, but there’s a problem. He never tells the same story twice about the wounds he received which qualify him for the awards. According to this article:“In the first incident, his right cheek was lacerated, and in the second, he was lacerated above his left eye. Neither injury required evacuation,”
Cajun then goes on to quote other sources as follows (excerpted):
"
I was wounded in the arm with shrapnel" and "
In the other, my knee was banged up and my arm was banged up"
and
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struck in the ankle by a shot"
and
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small scratch on your cheek" and "
The other purple heart [sic] you even declined to explain,” wrote Bailey"
And Cajun's closing comment:
So here, it seems, we have another big-mouth dummocrat pseudo-war hero who can’t seem to tell the same story twice about himself…
And now Murtha is anti-Bush and anti-Iraqi Freedom. Another partisan hack.
Posted by DaveH at January 15, 2006 5:33 PM