Liberals having trouble with letting go of bloody shirt of Cleland's "heroic loss of limbs"

Ann Coulter:

"...they are clearly implying – without stating – that Cleland lost his limbs in combat.

"It is simply a fact that Max Cleland was not injured by enemy fire in Vietnam. He was not in combat, he was not – as Al Hunt claimed – on a reconnaissance mission, and he was not in the battle of Khe Sanh, as many others have implied. He picked up an American grenade on a routine noncombat mission and the grenade exploded.

"In Cleland's own words: 'I didn't see any heroism in all that. It wasn't an act of heroism. I didn't know the grenade was live. It was an act of fate.'

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"...after Saxby Chambliss beat Cleland in the 2002 Georgia Senate race, liberals set to work developing a carefully crafted myth about Cleland's accident. Among many other examples, last November, Eric Boehlert wrote in Salon: '[D]uring the siege of Khe Sanh, Cleland lost both his legs and his right hand to a Viet Cong grenade.'

"Sadly for them, dozens and dozens of newspapers have already printed the truth. Liberals simply can't grasp the problem Lexis-Nexis poses to their incessant lying. They ought to stick to their specialty – hysterical overreaction. The truth is not their forte."

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