Blumenthal’s Vietnam Comments Sound Like Lies

As an individual who has served in combat on active duty in the U. S. Marine Corps, I find it rather unsettling to hear another former Marine not only lie about a happening in which he was involved, but then to once again lie to cover up his transgressions. It’s not that I’m claiming that Marines never lie, or at least, hardly ever lie; it’s just that to err to cover an error greatly diminishes any respect people might have had for the perpetrator. A lie is one of life’s most despicable statements.

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Then as if to make it all OK just because they say so, a good sized number of cooperators all wearing Marine Corps jackets or head covers, sucked up to and abetted the real perpetrator in a disgusting display of nauseous behavior in a televised (FOXNews) appearance on the Megan Kelly show, “America Live”, May 18, 2010. That is how the current political mess in Connecticut has played out to all Marines, current and past who hold the Corps in high esteem; as I do. The State of Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal who has been campaigning to fill the U. S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Chris Dodd has been caught up in a series of lies he uttered during speeches over the past several years. In this less than honest situation, Blumenthal has been lying to cover up the lies first told by stretching imaginations with the story that he simply “misspoke” when he blatantly informed his listeners that he was a veteran of the Vietnam campaign back in the ‘70s. In typical liberal fashion, Blumenthal diverts attention from the real issue of lying about being in Vietnam by saying “… I will not allow anyone to take a few misplaced words and impugn my record of service to our country." This discovery was not about his service in the Marines which he may have very well served honorably and faithfully; no, it is about falsely stating words that physically placed him IN that country. Words such as these direct quotes spoken by the Attorney General:

“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. (From NY Times – via savetheGOP.com 05-18-10)

"When we returned from Vietnam, I remember the taunts, the verbal and even physical abuse we encountered," according to a 2008 Connecticut Post story. The Times story said Blumenthal has intimated that he suffered the mistreatment veterans received after returning from Vietnam. At a veterans event in Shelton, for example, he said, "When we returned from Vietnam, I remember the taunts, the verbal and even physical abuse we encountered," according to a 2008 Connecticut Post story. I and many thousands of other Marines and former Marines are owed an apology from Mr. Blumenthal. Errors in speeches do happen but the quoted lines as noted above are not errors; they are intentional lies. It doesn’t take a lawyer to determine that, and as a lawyer himself, Blumenthal should be ashamed of his reluctance in admitting to same. He only makes his case to the voting public much more tenuous and shaky by his attempts to redirect the main issue from telling lies to defending his overall service while in the Marines. Granted, admitting that he intentionally lied would just about totally doom his quest for election, but the public can see the cover-up clearly and his goal is severely damaged. “Fess up, Mr. Blumenthal, and admit that you were sort of “wishful thinking” when you intimated your physical presence in Vietnam. I do believe the public will be a bit softer on you; and you will relieve the pain and anguish of many men and women who call themselves Marines.