This is unbelievable. This guy is a dishonest, sly weasel and an idiot to
boot! Considering the very public life that he leads, how in the world could
he possibly ever think that he would always get away with this ruse?! Shame
on him!

If Blumenthal can lie this easily to his constituents, he has very little
personal integrity. If the people of the state of Connecticut still choose
to vote for him as their new senator, they are equally idiots, and they
prove that they like to be lied to! Is it any wonder that Washington, D.C.
is full of lying, conniving politicians?!

Sadly, this kind of unethical behavior is nothing new. Even Israel's
spiritual leadership of millennia ago was plagued by it, and the people then
accepted it, just as they do today! Consider this verse:

"The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means;
and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?"
Jeremiah 5:31, KJV


Candidate's Words on Vietnam Service Differ From History

By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ - NYT

May 17, 2010


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."

There was one 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.

Many politicians have faced questions over their decisions during the
Vietnam War, and Mr. Blumenthal, who is seeking the seat being vacated by
Senator Christopher J. Dodd, is not alone in staying out of the war.

But what is striking about Mr. Blumenthal's record is the contrast between
the many steps he took that allowed him to avoid Vietnam, and the misleading
way he often speaks about that period of his life now, especially when he is
speaking at veterans' ceremonies or other patriotic events.

Sometimes his remarks have been plainly untrue, as in his speech to the
group in Norwalk. At other times, he has used more ambiguous language, but
the impression left on audiences can be similar.

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.

But an examination of his remarks at the ceremonies shows that he does not
volunteer that his service never took him overseas. And he describes the
hostile reaction directed at veterans coming back from Vietnam, intimating
that he was among them.

In 2003, he addressed a rally in Bridgeport, where about 100 military
families gathered to express support for American troops overseas. "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."

Mr. Blumenthal, 64, is known as a brilliant lawyer who likes to argue cases
in court and uses language with power and precision. He is also savvy about
the news media and attentive to how he is portrayed in the press.

But the way he speaks about his military service has led to confusion and
frequent mischaracterizations of his biography in his home state newspapers.
In at least eight newspaper articles published in Connecticut from 2003 to
2009, he 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."

And the idea that he served in Vietnam has become such an accepted part of
his public biography that when a national outlet, Slate magazine, produced a
profile of Mr. Blumenthal in 2000, it said he had "enlisted in the Marines
rather than duck the Vietnam draft."

It does not appear that Mr. Blumenthal ever sought to correct those
mistakes.

In the interview, he said he was not certain whether he had seen the stories
or whether any steps had been taken to point out the inaccuracies.

"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.

He said he had tried to stick to a consistent way of describing his military
experience: that he served as a member of the United State Marine Corps
Reserve during the Vietnam era.

Asked about the Bridgeport rally, when he told the crowd, "When we returned,
we saw nothing like this," Mr. Blumenthal said he did not recall the event.

An aide pointed out that in a different appearance this year, Mr. Blumenthal
was forthright about not having gone to war. 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."



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