Remember the entire clamor about George W. Bush’s military service? He didn’t go to Vietnam; he used influence to stay out of Vietnam. He lied about this, he lied about that. Dan Rather lost his job at CBS and others involved in the George W. Bush campaign smear left CBS in disgrace. Fact is, George W. Bush volunteered for duty in Vietnam but they didn’t fly the fighter jets he was trained on over there so his request was denied.

John Kerry lied, lied and lied some more about his service, begged for medals and even committed treason while on active duty reserve visiting with a delegation from Hanoi, North Vietnam and participating with the anti-war group Winter Soldiers.

Now we have one more Democrat trumping up is military service and doing it in front of active duty service men and women and retirees of the United States Armed Forces.

From the NY Times: (Hat Tip – Drudge Report)

At a ceremony honoring veterans and senior citizens who sent presents to soldiers overseas, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut rose and spoke of an earlier time in his life.

“We have learned something important since the days that I served in Vietnam,” Mr. Blumenthal said to the group gathered in Norwalk in March 2008. “And you exemplify it. Whatever we think about the war, whatever we call it — Afghanistan or Iraq — we owe our military men and women unconditional support.”

OOPS! There is one glaring problem:

Mr. Blumenthal, a Democrat now running for the United States Senate, never served in Vietnam. He obtained at least five military deferments from 1965 to 1970 and took repeated steps that enabled him to avoid going to war, according to records.

The deferments allowed Mr. Blumenthal to complete his studies at Harvard; pursue a graduate fellowship in England; serve as a special assistant to The Washington Post’s publisher, Katharine Graham; and ultimately take a job in the Nixon White House.

In 1970, with his last deferment in jeopardy, he landed a coveted spot in the Marine Reserve, which virtually guaranteed that he would not be sent to Vietnam. He joined a unit in Washington that conducted drills and other exercises and focused on local projects, like fixing a campground and organizing a Toys for Tots drive.

OH, please forgive me for I have misspoken:

In an interview on Monday, the attorney general said that he had misspoken about his service during the Norwalk event and might have misspoken on other occasions.

“My intention has always been to be completely clear and accurate and straightforward, out of respect to the veterans who served in Vietnam,” he said.

These lying politicians always get away with a dodge, apology or telling us they were misunderstood – only after they get caught in their huge lie. However, there is a consistent pattern over the years about Blumenthal’s service and lack of it.

In 2003, he addressed a rally in Bridgeport, where about 100 military families gathered to express support for American troops overseas referring to how returning Vietnam veterans were treated.

“When we returned, we saw nothing like this,” Mr. Blumenthal said. “Let us do better by this generation of men and women.”

At a 2008 ceremony in front of the Veterans War Memorial Building in Shelton, he praised the audience for paying tribute to troops fighting abroad, noting that America had not always done so.

“I served during the Vietnam era,” he said. “I remember the taunts, the insults, sometimes even physical abuse.”

In at least eight newspaper articles published in Connecticut from 2003 to 2009, Blumenthal is described as having served in Vietnam.

The New Haven Register on July 20, 2006, described him as “a veteran of the Vietnam War,” and on April 6, 2007, said that the attorney general had “served in the Marines in Vietnam.”

On May 26, 2009, The Connecticut Post, a Bridgeport newspaper that is the state’s third-largest daily, described Mr. Blumenthal as “a Vietnam veteran.”

The Shelton Weekly reported on May 23, 2008, that Mr. Blumenthal “was met with applause when he spoke about his experience as a Marine sergeant in Vietnam.”

Slate magazine, produced a profile of Mr. Blumenthal in 2000, it said he had “enlisted in the Marines rather than duck the Vietnam draft.”

Five deferments and he wasn’t seeking to avoid the draft? I’m surprised he didn’t catch pneumonia from the draft! There is no record that Blumenthal ever sought to correct the record of these stories.

“I don’t know if we tried to do so or not,” he said. He added that he “can’t possibly know what is reported in all” the articles that are written about him, given the large number of appearances he makes at military-style events.

Politicians have people checking stories about that as full-time jobs. Like so many in the political class, Mr. Blumenthal is a pathological liar.

Now that he is caught, like a rat, Mr. Blumenthal is “correcting” himself at speaking engagement. In a Senate debate in March he responded to a question about Iran and the use of military force by saying:

“Although I did not serve in Vietnam, I have seen firsthand the effects of military action, and no one wants it to be the first resort, nor do we want to mortgage the country’s future with a deficit that is ballooning out of control.”

The NY Times also discusses another lie about swimming at Harvard. One problem, he was never on the Harvard swim team.

In two largely favorable profiles, the Slate article and a magazine article in The Hartford Courant in 2004 with which he cooperated; Mr. Blumenthal is described prominently as having served as captain of the swim team at Harvard. Records at the college show that he was never on the team.

While Blumenthal is busy with his Olympic-sized backpedaling here is another whopper:

In an interview, Jean Risley, the chairwoman of the Connecticut Vietnam Veterans Memorial Inc., recalled listening to an emotional Mr. Blumenthal offering remarks at the dedication of the memorial. She remembered him describing the indignities that he and other veterans faced when they returned from Vietnam.

“It was a sad moment,” she recalled. “He said, ‘When we came back, we were spat on; we couldn’t wear our uniforms.’ It looked like he was sad to me when he said it.”

Ms. Risley later telephoned the reporter to say she had checked into Mr. Blumenthal’s military background and learned that he had not, in fact, served in Vietnam. Imagine that! Blumenthal can now join John Kerry in the Vietnam Hall of Shame for Famous Liars.

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Jim Towey writes:

“Ex-soldiers don’t need to be told they’re a burden to society.”

Veteran’s should be honored, Veteran’s Day should be celebrated nationally with closed government offices, closed businesses, parades, fireworks and gala events. It’s not!

Last year, bureaucrats at the VA’s National Center for Ethics in Health Care advocated a 52-page end-of-life planning document, “Your Life, Your Choices.” It was first published in 1997 and later promoted as the VA’s preferred living will throughout its vast network of hospitals and nursing homes.

The Bush White House took a look at how this document was treating complex health and moral issues, the VA suspended its use. Unfortunately, under Barack Hussein Obama, the VA has now resuscitated “Your Life, Your Choices.”

Dr. Robert Pearlman, chief of ethics evaluation for the center, a man who in 1996 advocated for physician-assisted suicide in Vacco v. Quill before the U.S. Supreme Court and is known for his support of health-care rationing is also the primary author of this workbook.

“Your Life, Your Choices” presents end-of-life choices in a way aimed at steering users toward predetermined conclusions, much like a political “push poll.” For example:

A worksheet on page 21 lists various scenarios and asks users to then decide whether their own life would be “not worth living.”

The circumstances listed include ones common among the elderly and disabled:

Living in a nursing home, being in a wheelchair and not being able to “shake the blues.”

 There is a section which provocatively asks,

“Have you ever heard anyone say, ‘If I’m a vegetable, pull the plug’?”

There also are guilt-inducing scenarios such as,

“I can no longer contribute to my family’s well being,”

“I am a severe financial burden on my family”

and that the vet’s situation “causes severe emotional burden for my family.”

Mr. Towey continues:

I was not surprised to learn that the VA panel of experts that sought to update “Your Life, Your Choices” between 2007-2008 did not include any representatives of faith groups or disability rights advocates. And as you might guess, only one organization was listed in the new version as a resource on advance directives: the Hemlock Society (now euphemistically known as “Compassion and Choices”).

A July 2009 VA directive instructs its primary care physicians to raise advance care planning with all VA patients and to refer them to “Your Life, Your Choices.” Not just those of advanced age and debilitated condition—all patients.

Barack Hussein Obama and his Marxist/Fascist hybrid Liberal ilk should cut costs to American taxpayer’s by referring themselves to “Your Life, Your Choices.” The sooner they take their own advise the better America will be for it. Indeed!

Barack HUSSEIN Obama

Former Community Organizer and Apologist

(Marxist/Fascist Hybrid-IL)

Obama the apologist is back on tour in the Middle East and Europe. From The Heritage Foundation:

10. Apology for Guantanamo in Washington: “There is also no question that Guantanamo set back the moral authority that is America’s strongest currency in the world. … Rather than keeping us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security. It is a rallying cry for our enemies.”

9. Apology for the Mistakes of the CIA: “So don’t be discouraged by what’s happened in the last few weeks. Don’t be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we’ve made some mistakes.”

8. Apology for U.S. Policy toward the Americas: “Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors. We have been too easily distracted by other priorities, and have failed to see that our own progress is tied directly to progress throughout the Americas.”

7. Apology before the Turkish Parliament: “The United States is still working through some of our own darker periods in our history. … Our country still struggles with the legacies of slavery and segregation, the past treatment of Native Americans.”

6. Apology for Guantanamo in France: “I don’t believe that there is a contradiction between our security and our values. And when you start sacrificing your values, when you lose yourself, then over the long term that will make you less secure.”

5. Apology for the War on Terror: “Unfortunately, faced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. … In other words, we went off course.”

4. Apology at the G-20 Summit of World Leaders: “I would like to think that with my election and the early decisions that we’ve made, that you’re starting to see some restoration of America’s standing in the world.”

3. Apology to the Summit of the Americas: “While the United States has done much to promote peace and prosperity in the hemisphere, we have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms. … So I’m here to launch a new chapter of engagement that will be sustained throughout my administration. The United States will be willing to acknowledge past errors where those errors have been made.”

2. Apology to the Muslim World: “We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.”

1. Apology to France and Europe: “Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.”

Heading to Normany what will Obama apologize for? To set the record straight here is what the great Ronald Reagan said at Normandy in 1984

On the 40th Anniversary of D-Day, President Ronald Reagan addressed a group of World War II Veterans at Pointe du Hoc, France.

June 6, 1984
Remarks to Veterans at U.S. Ranger Monument below:

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We’re here to mark that day in history when the Allied armies joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history.

We stand on a lonely, windswept point on the northern shore of France. The air is soft, but forty years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. At dawn, on the morning of the 6th of June 1944, 225 Rangers jumped off the British landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. Their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion: to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. The Allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the Allied advance.

The Rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers on the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. And the American Rangers began to climb. They shot rope ladders over the face of these cliffs and began to pull themselves up. When one Ranger fell, another would take his place. When one rope was cut, a Ranger would grab another and begin his climb again. They climbed, shot back, and held their footing. Soon, one by one, the Rangers pulled themselves over the top, and in seizing the firm land at the top of these cliffs, they began to seize back the continent of Europe. Two hundred and twenty-five came here. After two days of fighting only ninety could still bear arms.

Behind me is a memorial that symbolizes the Ranger daggers that were thrust into the top of these cliffs. And before me are the men who put them there.

These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.

Gentlemen, I look at you and I think of the words of Stephen Spender’s poem. You are men who in your “lives fought for life…and left the vivid air signed with your honor.”

I think I know what you may be thinking right now–thinking “we were just part of a bigger effort; everyone was brave that day.” Well, everyone was. Do you remember the story of Bill Millin of the 51st Highlanders? Forty years ago today, British troops were pinned down near a bridge, waiting desperately for help. Suddenly, they heard the sound of bagpipes, and some thought they were dreaming. Well, they weren’t. They looked up and saw Bill Millin with his bagpipes, leading the reinforcements and ignoring the smack of the bullets into the ground around him.

Lord Lovat was with him–Lord Lovat of Scotland, who calmly announced when he got to the bridge, “Sorry I’m a few minutes late,” as if he’d been delayed by a traffic jam, when in truth he’d just come from the bloody fighting on Sword Beach, which he and his men had just taken.

There was the impossible valor of the Poles who threw themselves between the enemy and the rest of Europe as the invasion took hold, and the unsurpassed courage of the canadians who had already seen the horrors of war on this coast. They knew what awaited them there, but they would not be deterred. And once they hit Juno Beach, they never looked back.

All of these men were part of a roll call of honor with names that spoke of a pride as bright as the colors they bore: the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Poland’s 24th Lancers, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, the Screaming Eagles, the Yeomen of England’s armored divisions, the forces of Free France, the Coast Guard’s “Matchbox Fleet” and you, the American Rangers.

Forty summers have passed since the battle that you fought here. You were young the day you took these cliffs; some of you were hardly more than boys, with the deepest joys of life before you. Yet you risked everything here. Why? Why did you do it? What impelled you to put aside the instinct for self-preservation and risk your lives to take these cliffs? What inspired all the men of the armies that met here? We look at you, and somehow we know the answer. It was faith, and belief; it was loyalty and love.

The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or on the next. It was the deep knowledge — and pray God we have not lost it — that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest. You were here to liberate, not to conquer, and so you and those others did not doubt your cause. And you were right not to doubt.

You all knew that some things are worth dying for. One’s country is worth dying for, and democracy is worth dying for, because it’s the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man. All of you loved liberty. All of you were willing to fight tyranny, and you knew the people of your countries were behind you. people of your countries were behind you.

The Americans who fought here that morning knew word of the invasion was spreading through the darkness back home. They thought–or felt in their hearts, though they couldn’t know in fact, that in Georgia they were filling the churches at 4 a.m., in Kansas they were kneeling on their porches and praying, and in Philadelphia they were ringing the Liberty Bell.

Something else helped the men of D-Day: their rock hard belief that Providence would have a great hand in the events that would unfold here; that God was an ally in this great cause. And so, the night before the invasion, when Colonel Wolverton asked his parachute troops to kneel with him in prayer he told them: Do not bow your heads, but look up so you can see God and ask His blessing in what we’re about to do. Also that night, General matthew Ridgway on his cot, listening in the darkness for the promise God made to Joshua: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

These are the things that impelled them; these are the things that shaped the unity of the Allies.

When the war was over, there were lives to be rebuilt and governments to be returned to the people. There were nations to be reborn. Above all, there was a new peace to be assured. These were huge and daunting tasks. But the Allies summoned strength from the faith, belief, loyalty, and love of those who fell here. They rebuilt a new Europe together.

There was first a great reconciliation among those who had been enemies, all of whom had suffered so greatly. The United States did its part, creating the Marshall plan to help rebuild our allies and our former enemies. The marshall plan led to the Atlantic alliance–a great alliance that serves to this day as our shield for freedom, for prosperity, and for peace.

In spite of our great efforts and successes, not all that followed the end of the war was happy or planned. Some liberated countries were lost. The great sadness of this loss echoes down to our own time in the streets of Warsaw, Prague, and East Berlin. Soviet troops that came to the center of this continent did not leave when peace came. They’re still there, uninvited, unwanted, unyielding, almost forty years after the war. Because of this, allied forces still stand on this continent. Today, as forty years ago, our armies are here for only one purpose–to protect and defend democracy. The only territories we hold are memorials like this one and graveyards where our heroes rest.

We in America have learned bitter lessons from two World Wars: It is better to be here ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. We’ve learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent.

But we try always to be prepared for peace; prepared to deter aggression; prepared to negotiate the reduction of arms; and, yes, prepared to reach out again in the spirit of reconciliation. In truth, there is no reconciliation we would welcome more than a reconciliation with the Soviet Union, so, together, we can lessen the risks of war, now and forever.

It is fitting to remember here the great losses also suffered by the Russian people during World War II: twenty million perished, a terrible price that testifies to all the world the necessity of ending war. I tell you from my heart that we in the united States do not want war. We want to wipe from the face of the Earth the terrible weapons that man now has in his hands. And I tell you, we are ready to seize that beachhead. We look for some sign from the Soviet Union that they are willing to move forward, that they share our desire and love for peace, and that they will give up the ways of conquest. There must be a changing there that will allow us to turn our hope into action.

We will pray forever that some day that changing will come. But for now, particularly today, it is good and fitting to renew our commitment to each other, to our freedom, and to the alliance that protects it.

We are bound today by what bound us forty years ago, the same loyalties, traditions, and beliefs. We are bound by reality. The strength of America’s allies is vital to the United States, and the American security guarantee is essential to the continued freedom of Europe’s democracies. We were with you then; we are with you now. Your hopes are our hopes, and your destiny is our destiny.

Here, in this place where the West held together, let us make a vow to our dead. Let us show them by our actions that we understand what they died for. Let our actions say to them the words for which Matthew Ridgway listened: “I will not fail thee nor forsake thee.”

Strengthened by their courage, heartened by their valor, and borne by their memory, let us continue to stand for the ideals for which they lived and died.

Thank you very much, and God bless you all.

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We miss you Mr. Reagan. The person now occupying the White House is the opposite of you. He is a Marxist/Fascist hybrid who hates America and wishes to change the good this country has done for the world and will do in the future providing his “change” does not take root. He wishes to take control of private business and the all things we enjoy. He apologizes for America to our enemies and to the “allies” who are jealous of America.

We hope you are watching over us Mr. Reagan, we embrace your principles of Conservatism and will do our best to wake the sleeping citizens of this great country to stand up for liberty, freedom and individualism.  We miss your leadership for we have none. We miss your voice for we have none. We miss you Ronald Reagan. Pray for us, indeed!

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One of John Kerry’s (D-MA) biggest defenders for Swift Boat delusions guilty in December to possession of child pornography, was sentenced Monday. Wade Sanders was given a very light sentence since prosecutions asked for 63 months, the maximum is 10-years and Judge Thomas Whelan left Sanders off with 37-months.

Sanders had argued that he deserved only probation, claiming that what the paper calls “his compulsion to research the world of child pornography” was “a symptom of his post-traumatic stress disorder that stemmed from his combat service”–that is, he was depraved on account of he was deployed.

The San Diego Union-Tribune describes Sanders as a “war hero,” but he is best known for his service to John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee. Kerry’s central campaign claim was that he deserved to be president because his so-called band of brothers, veterans who had served alongside him on Navy Swift boats in Vietnam, vouched for his heroism and his impeccable character. (Emphasis LCs)

We would think military service is to your country not to an individual. Kerry had begun his political career by slandering fellow veterans as war criminals. They also claimed that he had exaggerated his own heroism and acquired some of his medals fraudulently. Kerry also claimed to have spent Christmas in Cambodia while Nixon was President. Both claims were false.

Before his sentencing, Sanders filed a “personal statement” with the court. It is a remarkable document:

Both the US. Attorney and the Probation Officer have been unable to understand combat stress (PTSD) and how it contributed to my current circumstance. That is a huge challenge for anyone who hasn’t been in sustained and intense combat. However, my concern is that if the Federal criminal justice fails to do so, the same disgraceful abandonment of those who have returned from other wars will continue and affect the thousands of afflicted men and women returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sanders also had, as James Taranto noted in December, “computer files containing 600 images of minors, including a 21-minute video that depicted girls engaging in sex acts with an adult man.”

Mr. Taranto points out that after page after page of war stories and personal tales of woe, Sanders links his use of child pornography to the Kerry campaign. It is worth quoting at length this passage, which begins on page 9 of the statement, page 10 of the PDF:

I continued to find escape by obsessively playing video games. I had no successful relationships, only the games and my work. Then came 2004, and the presidential campaign of John Kerry.

As a supporter of Senator Kerry, I was identified by the so-called Swift Boat Veterans for Truth as a target. Like Senator Kerry, I was investigated by a retired FBI agent partly financed by T. Boone Pickens. Naturally nothing negative was discovered, but it infuriated me. I had a hard time believing that fellow combat veterans could put be [sic] so politically motivated to attack fellow Swift Boat veterans.

That experience caused a serious resurgence of the PTSD symptoms and for the next few years, I lived with increased levels of rage and personal pain. To attack a veterans [sic] service record, especially his military decorations is to go to the heart of his honor. To have this done by so-called friends was even more painful.

From 2004 through most of 2007, I recovered from that episode of PTSD, although I still had interior negative feelings which I had to deal with on a daily basis. I worked hard at getting all of them back into their little box. Although I don’t recall exactly, it was about this time that I discovered the distraction and escape available through obsessive surfing of the internet. The fateful link was Limewire, a legal peer to peer file sharing program which my nephew introduced for downloading music and comedy videos. This gradually replaced my compulsive playing of video games.

Limeware [sic] was the vehicle that first exposed me to child pornography. I encountered it while accidentally downloading what I thought was a comedy video. The sight of the abused children angered me and triggered the memory of a brief I received during a government visit to the former Yugoslavia. I was briefed by the United Nations Force Commander on a number of subjects, including the exploitation of children in war zones and other devastated areas.

I am an established and fairly well known writer and commentator on contemporary social issues so I decided to research the material to write either an extended article or a book. How my PTSD played into this has been explained to me through testing and therapy. The gist of it is that my PTSD related obsessive-compulsive driven need for information and distraction from my pain and anger was triggered by the images I encountered. According to the therapists I have an overprotective nature towards children, especially young girls.

In any event, I was on another mission. Whenever I discovered a video that appeared to originate from an area of war, and many appeared to from [sic] the former Soviet Union or the former Yugoslavia, I studied it and searched for indications of location, signs of malnutrition, physical abuse, and drug or alcohol involvement. I found all of these things and I took notes. What I saw angered, sickened, and saddened me and I saw it as extension of a relatively recent trend: using children as soldiers. Through therapy I have learned that my need to protect children also fueled my research and my mission.

Since Limeware was a legal process and I was not aware what I was doing was illegal, I began my research. It was only after I began that the statute I violated came into effect but I did not notice it. I continued my mission.

Mr. Taranto did some research of his own and found that Sanders chronology of events is tainted:

We phoned prosecutor Alessandra Serano and asked her about Sanders’s statement that “it was only after I began that the statute I violated came into effect.” She told us that Congress enacted the statute in 1978, although it was amended in 2006 to increase the penalties. Possession of child pornography is also a crime in California and every other state. When Sanders, self-described as “an established and fairly well known writer and commentator on contemporary social issues,” claims he was unaware that what he was doing was illegal, this does not pass the laugh test.

Sanders’s chronology, in which his crimes resulted from mental sickness triggered by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth’s criticism of Kerry, elides a crucial fact: He downloaded his first known kid-porn image in November 2003. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth did not exist until May 2004.

In addition, Sanders expects us to believe that he thought that first image was actually a “comedy video,” that his obsessive acquisition of child pornography reflected his “overprotective nature towards children,” and that all of this was done in the interest of “research”–a bizarrely frequent (and seldom successful) defense for child pornography defendants.

Kerry’s own testimony, after Sanders pleaded guilty, defends the obsessed child pornographer:

I’ve known Wade since we were young officers in the Navy and never once–not in any fashion–have I ever witnessed or had any intimation of any proclivity towards the behavior of which he’s accused. It is a complete aberration in forty three years of public service and public concern for veterans and veteran-related issues. I’ve seen Wade in his relationships with friends and his own significant others and am completely baffled by the circumstances which lead [sic] to this difficult day of sentencing. . . .

The Wade Sanders I know is someone who has always put love of country first. He’s been an advocate for his friends, his fellow veterans, his state and his country. I know you will measure the facts of this case against Wade’s lifetime of service, respect for the law, and devotion to his community and fellow veterans.

Service to country does not alter the fact that Sanders committed a crime and got off easy. Kerry vouches for Sanders and vice versa.

Somewhere in the middle are two individuals with a history of terrible lies. Indeed!