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 Max Cleland Survived His Vietnam War Wounds. But He Has Yet to Recover From His Last Campaign Battle.

This Ann Coulter has written real slime. Only in America. Our service men and women fight and die to defend your right to a free press.

And Coulter's nasty innuendo-- let's see the proof Ann-- ignores the fact that Cleland had won the Bronze and Silver Star before the explosion. Here is the language from Cleland's Silver Star award

What wounds did John Kerry receive to be awarded three Purple Hearts?

“We are happy to compare Senator Kerry’s record of service to anybody in the Bush campaign who has or has not served,” Meehan said.

At least Kerry went through the experience of the unpopular war before condemning it and joining the protest movement...you can't say the same for George W. Bush, who has a mysterious hole in his National Guard service, or for his vice president, Dick Cheney, the man of many deferments, who said the war came at an inconvenient time for him to join it.

Military Service Records of Senator John F. Kerry

In fact, there is considerable evidence that Mr. Bush skipped all duty for a full year, until April 1973. At that point, his two superior officers in Houston noted in writing in an official document: "Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report." They erroneously believed that he had been completing his duty in Alabama. Yet he somehow received an honorable discharge

Many states, Texas among them, had a record during the Vietnam War of providing a haven in the Guard for the sons of the well-connected, and a tendency to excuse shirking by those with political connections.