June 24, 2004

The Return of Stumpy

John Kerry's little mascot Max Cleland is back in the news again. And y'all wonder why I still subscribe to the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation. Where else would I find bullshit like this?

Max Cleland never wanted to come full circle.

But for the Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, his recent visits to see American soldiers wounded in Iraq have the feel of history repeating itself.

Oh crap! I know where this is going.

"This is Vietnam revisited in every way," Cleland, who lost two legs and an arm in a 1968 grenade explosion, said in an interview Wednesday. "I thought I'd never see it again in my lifetime. I thought we'd learned some basic lessons."

Max! Listen up! This is not Viet Fucking Nam. It is not even close. This is one of the reasons we kicked you out of the Senate. You are an idiot! We are patriots down here in Georgia. We do not like traitorous Dimocrats like you and John Fonda Kerry.

The calls of the Dimocrat Asshole Bird:

Squawk! Bush lied!

Squawk! Viet Nam!

Squawk! Halliburton!

Squawk! Quagmire!

Cleland visits troops at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, where he recovered more than three decades ago. He calls the soldiers "the young Max Clelands."

Jesus H. Christ! I hope not. Why would you want to insult these brave men? These guys are heroes, Max. They didn't fuck up behind enemy lines with a live hand grenade. And I hope they don't turn out to be liberal Dimocrats like you who put union jobs ahead of the safety of this country.

His interactions with them and the families of those killed form the core of the new documentary film, "Strong at the Broken Places."

His story of war, devastating injury, recovery and a life in politics is woven throughout the nearly hourlong film.

Just what we need! Another Dimocrat propaganda film. Maybe they can show this with Farenheit 9/11.

"The human loss of this misguided policy in Iraq is excruciating," said Cleland, who is campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate and fellow Vietnam veteran Sen. John Kerry. "It's the untold message of war, and one of the reasons I wanted to be involved in telling it was to make sure that people understand the costs involved."

Max, we know the costs involved. All we have to do is look at Viet Fucking Nam which your party made sure we lost. We can see all the misery and suffering that occurred after we left. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed by the communists. The boat people. Even Joan Baez, after the deaths in Viet Nam and the killing fields in Cambodia came to the realization that maybe we should have done sumpin' other than cutting and running.

And now we have Max and the Dimocrats who want us to do the same thing in Iraq. They wanted us to lose the Cold War and right off the bat the assholes want us to lose World War IV, which is the war against radical Islam. How can these assholes look at themselves in the mirror, and don't even bring up that fat fuck Ted Kennedy. We are coming up on the 35th anniversary of him leaving Mary Jo Kopechne to drown while he was trying to figger out how to save his political career. Thanks to the Kennedy money and the idiots in Massachusetts, he's still serving in the Senate and is an 'elder statesman' of the Dimocrat Party. He's a fucking murderer. And he's a Dimocrat. How fitting.

But back to Stumpy.

"He's a bridge between Vietnam and Iraq," Mahoney said. "The bridge between getting blown apart and putting your life back together in a totally new way because you've got to."

GMAFB! He's a fucking bridge to nowhere. Once again, Viet Nam and Iraq have nothing to do with one another except they're both wars the Dimocrats were against. They were on the wrong side of history during the Cold War and they are on the wrong side of history in this war.

Cleland also visits the family of Spc. Jamaal Addison, the first soldier from Georgia killed in Iraq.

"I'm hoping that this film sheds light on the fact that there were a lot of assumptions and misconceptions regarding the war that led us into this hell," said Addison's father, Kevin, a postal employee from Decatur. "It's gotten worse over time, and there's no sign of it getting better."

Way to go assholes! Play on a family's grief to deliver your anti-war, anti-American propaganda.

This is why you didn't get reelected Max. Georgia does not like people who are anti-American and agreeing to do this propaganda film shows the people in Georgia they were right about you.

You are an asshole!

Posted by denny at June 24, 2004 08:19 PM  
Comments

I am going to a rant later tonight on my blog about this Viet Nam/Iraq quagmire BS. One thing I will say right now, seems Cleland and Kerry forget is was that big assed liar, LBJ that escalated Viet Nam. For all his faults, Nixon did end the liberal/dem created quagmire.

Posted by: Sailor in the Desert on June 24, 2004 10:09 PM

You have a perspective on things that just makes me spit out my beer (hey wait, that would be alcohol abouse), I mean swallow me beer before I stare in amazement at what I am reading. Stumpy can't be touched because he's a "war hero." A war we were destined to lose because we were too worried about how the Dimocrats were portraying it. Striking similarities to World War III or whatever Fokken number we are on. Godspeed our military, I hope they aren't paying attention to CNN and Al Gore.

Posted by: Matt Ashby on June 24, 2004 10:27 PM

My rant on the quagmire is finally posted. Reality (read that as being a good capitalist and earning money) delayed my posting.

Posted by: Sailor in the Desert on June 25, 2004 06:53 AM

What continually amazes me is that Kerry, Cleland, etc, can say all of this with a straight face. Maybe they have one hand behing their back crossing their fingers. I work in telecom and I have seen what happens when you try to reach a goal and you don't care anything about what the cost is.

Posted by: sTEVE on June 25, 2004 08:33 AM

I don't know if it's accurate or not but I recall something I found in a blog a few years ago during the election. It is regarding Clelands wounds.

From this report it seems Cleland was a REMF in Saigon. There was a large battle close to the city and after it was over he choppered over with some other REMF's to take a look. After having walked around the site of the fighting for a few hours, when it came time to return to Saigon he decided to ride back in a jeep rather than the helicopter.

As he was walking to the jeep he saw a granade on the ground, bent down to pick it up and it went off.

While I'm sorry for every KIA and WIA produced by the war I don't think, if accurate, the reported circumstances of his wounding qualify him for minor god status.

P.S. In WWII my father was wounded while out with his buddies hunting for souvenirs. As it (hunting for souvenirs) was against orders he got treatment by the medic and never had the wound reported. No Purple Heart, no benefits.

Posted by: Casablanca on June 25, 2004 09:54 AM

Casablanca - You're right. Cleland did not receive a purple heart for his loss of limbs because it was a fuck up. Up until a few years ago, he even denied being a war hero. But then he went to Washington and turned from a conservative Dimocrat into a liberal Dimocrat. Now he's Kerry's mascot and spends a lot of time stumping for him and pretending to be a war hero.

Posted by: Denny Wilson on June 25, 2004 12:35 PM

It would be wrong of me to compare Kerry and Cleland to Dr.Evil and Mini-Me. Very, very wrong.

But funny.

Posted by: Blind Pig on June 25, 2004 03:35 PM

I can pinpoint precisely when I swore to myself that I would never vote for Max Cleland: Right before the 2000 election, when it was becoming clear that Al Gore's campaign was in serious trouble in the South, Max appeared at a big get-out-the-vote rally in Memphis. The thrust of his speech was that the nation really needed a combat veteran in the Oval Office (not -- it went without saying -- some guy who had just been in the Air National Guard).

Since Max had never, so far as I knew, expressed any qualms about the military record of the then-President (if you can put "military record" and "Bill Clinton" in the same sentence), I felt this was a bit hypocritical. And I wrote him a letter telling him so, speaking as one of his constituents.

Give him credit: He did reply. Too bad the reply was along the lines of, "Well, y'know, I didn't agree with Bill Clinton about _everything_!"

Weasel.

Posted by: F451 on June 25, 2004 11:24 PM

Makes you want to hang 'em both by the balls, but they don't have any. We have to thump them so hard in the next election that they'll never run for office again. The dems have had 70 years of screwing this country up, it's time to move them out.

Posted by: Jack on July 1, 2004 01:32 AM
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