The fake war hero:
(Above snippet from Stolen Valor : How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History
Believes that being forced into military service would better qualify you to be the leader of the free world rather then someone who was raised around the military:
Republican presidential candidate John McCain’s family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, “and he has a hard time thinking beyond that,” Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.
“I think he’s trapped in that,” Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. “Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous.”
Harkin said that “it’s one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that’s just how you’re steeped, how you’ve learned, how you’ve grown up.”
Of course we have to look at who this comes from. Tom Harkin who:
- Took photos of the captured enemy in Vietnam while on a fact finding mission for Congress, railed against their treatment, then sold the pictures for his own profit.
- Gave interviews shortly after to Communist media outlets attacking the treatment of the enemy (while omitting the treatment of our POW’s) which were later used for propaganda purposes against the US and the South Vietnamese.
- “During Harkin’s 1982 re-election campaign, his opponent documented that this Democratic congressman had always voted against foreign aid for countries friendly to the U.S., but that Harkin had voted to give taxpayer money to Communist Vietnam, Communist Cuba, Communist Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Marxist Sandinista Daniel Ortega in Nicaragua and other Communist nations.”
- In 1985 he joined Kerry on a trip to Nicaragua where he gave propaganda support to the Sandinistas and embraced Daniel Ortega
- Not long after Harkin and Kerry circulated a study written by the Marxist organization “Institute for Policy Studies” (It was later learned that one of the authors was employed by the KGB) that purported to show 77 instances in which President Reagan misled Congress about its Central American policies while ignoring Soviet or Cuban involvement in Central America.
- The ADA rates him as amongst the most liberal and leftist politicians in Congress
- And last but not least, he lied about his service in Vietnam
Ed Morrissey tears into Harkin and his party:
This comes, of course, from the same party whose Senate Intelligence chair suggested that military pilots have little human feeling. It precedes an effort by the New York Times tomorrow, along with some of McCain’s oh-so-courageous unnamed Senate colleagues, to suggest that McCain didn’t really experience Vietnam because his five-plus years as a POW kept him from learning all of the lessons John Kerry experienced in his three months in a Swift Boat. This also comes from the same party that celebrated Kerry’s military experience while denigrating George Bush’s National Guard service. According to Harkin today, Bush would be a better candidate — right?
At one time the left flew the meme that the few years Bush spent in the National Guard was not enough to qualify him to be President but now the years spent in service by McCain is too much service to qualify him?
I mean which is it?
Freakin hypocrites.
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