"...[General Wesley Clark US Army Ret.] ultimately graduated as valedictorian of West Point...Clark eventually applied for a Rhodes Scholarship and learned in December of his senior year at West Point that he had been accepted. He spent his summer at the United States Army Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia. Clark worked in the Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) program during his Rhodes Scholarship, completing his degree at Magdalen College at the University of Oxford in August 1968..."
"...Clark was then given command of A Company, 1st Battalion, 16th Infantry of the 1st Infantry Division in January 1970. In February, only one month into his command, he was shot four times by a Viet Cong soldier with an AK-47. The wounded Clark shouted orders to his men, who counterattacked and defeated the Viet Cong force. Clark had injuries to his right shoulder, right hand, right hip, and right leg, and was sent to Valley Forge Army Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania to recuperate. He was awarded the Silver Star for his actions during the encounter."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wesley_Clark#Military_career
Showing posts with label John McCain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John McCain. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
McCain the fabulist and Reagan the liar
McCain campaign ad irony alert: narrator, "Only 1 man didn't play politics with the truth," as video plays of St. John walking and talking with Pres. Raygunz.
If 1 spoke truth, then Ronnie must have lied through his teeth when he told the American people he would not negotiate with terrorists while at the same time his administration personally delivered a birthday cake and a Bible to Ayatollah Khomeini as we illegally sold Iran weapons.
If Ronnie Raygunz ever did meet the truth, he raped, sodomized, decapitated it and then kept the torso for future necrophilia.
But the American people voted for him anyway even after he said in first debate against Mondale that only opposition to dictator Marcos in Philippines and against apartheid in S Africa came from communists, an absurd, fantastical statement.
Nevertheless the media—led by George Will ‘s supposedly neutral commenting on ABC after working as Reagan debate coach—focused on Raygunz “performance”—“there you go again”—rather than the falsehoods he uttered.
That explains how otherwise logical people can vote vote for fact free McCain; they become seduced by emotional impact of words they hear rather than analyze them for factual content.
If 1 spoke truth, then Ronnie must have lied through his teeth when he told the American people he would not negotiate with terrorists while at the same time his administration personally delivered a birthday cake and a Bible to Ayatollah Khomeini as we illegally sold Iran weapons.
If Ronnie Raygunz ever did meet the truth, he raped, sodomized, decapitated it and then kept the torso for future necrophilia.
But the American people voted for him anyway even after he said in first debate against Mondale that only opposition to dictator Marcos in Philippines and against apartheid in S Africa came from communists, an absurd, fantastical statement.
Nevertheless the media—led by George Will ‘s supposedly neutral commenting on ABC after working as Reagan debate coach—focused on Raygunz “performance”—“there you go again”—rather than the falsehoods he uttered.
That explains how otherwise logical people can vote vote for fact free McCain; they become seduced by emotional impact of words they hear rather than analyze them for factual content.
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