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To: Sully- who wrote (33337)	5/19/2010 5:41:18 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (4) of 35834

Blumenthal misdirects over Vietnam lies By: David Freddoso Online Opinion Editor 05/18/10 2:35 PM EDT "Unlike many of my peers, I chose to join the military and serve my country," said Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, D. Glossing over lies he told on tape about his own Vietnam service, Blumenthal said he "misspoke," and used "a few misplaced words" when he described his own service. "I was unaware of my misplaced words when they were spoken...I apologize if I misspoke." (I sympathize -- I made the same mistake all the time when I was in Vietnam.) Blumenthal spoke as though he were really under attack not for lying, but for joining as a reservist. "There was no certainty," he said, about where he would be sent after he joined the Reserves. Blumenthal served in a unit in Washington, D.C. Blumenthal was asked about several newspaper articles that described him as a Vietnam vet, which he did nothing to correct. Speaking like an attorney constructing an argument in the alternative, Blumenthal said: "I may not even have seen them." Read more at the Washington Examiner: washingtonexaminer.com

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