Take action: Ann Coulter's lies about Max Cleland [View All]

[scottcsmith]

I hope enough people are outraged over Ann Coulter's recent column where she lies outright about how Max Cleland lost three limbs in Vietnam. Here are some contacts of sites that have published her column on Max Cleland. If enough people write in, we could perhaps get the column retracted. This is from that column:
http://www.anncoulter.com

"Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends. He saw a grenade on the ground and picked it up. He could have done that at Fort Dix. In fact, Cleland could have dropped a grenade on his foot as a National Guardsman –- or what Cleland sneeringly calls "weekend warriors." Luckily for Cleland's political career and current pomposity about Bush, he happened to do it while in Vietnam."



The following account was published on Buzzflash. It's from Cleland's commanding officer, explaining the truth of how Cleland lost three limbs:

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/02/con04074.html

"The 2nd of the 12th Cavalry was engaged in a combat operation at the time of this incident. Max Cleland was with the Battalion Forward Command Post in heavy combat involving the attack of the 1st Cavalry Division up the valley to relieve the Marines who were besieged and surrounded at the Khe Shan Firebase. The whole surrounding area was an active combat zone (some might call the entire country of Vietnam a combat zone). (Is Iraq a combat zone?) Max, the Battalion Signal Officer, was engaged in a combat mission I personally ordered to increase the effectiveness of communications between the battalion combat forward and rear support elements: e.g. Erect a radio relay antenna on a mountain top. By the way, at one point the battalion rear elements came under enemy artillery fire so everyone was in harms way.

As they were getting off the helicopter, Max saw the grenade on the ground and he instinctively went for it. Soldiers in combat don't leave grenades lying around on the ground. Later, in the hospital, he said he thought it was his own but I doubt the concept of "ownership" went through his mind in the split seconds involved in reaching for the grenade. Nearly two decades later another soldier came forward and admitted it was actually his grenade. Does ownership of the grenade really matter? It does not."

Maury Cralle'
Battalion Executive Officer
2d/12th Cavalry Battalion
1st Air Cavalry Division
During the assault on Khe Shan

Here are some contacts of web sites that publish Coulter's column:

Town Hall: http://www.townhall.com/about/contact.html
World Net Daily: [e-mail]
Jewish World Review: [e-mail]

If anyone knows of any other places Coulter's column appears, could you post the URL?

Max Cleland has been attacked too many times by right-wingers, and I hope enough of us can make a difference in challenging the lies of Ann Coulter.