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    http://www.theatlantic.com/polit…
    Connecticut Attorney General Dick Blumenthal is denying a New York Times report that he routinely lied about his service in Vietnam9 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/1…)

    “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.

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    • Don't believe it the NYT is the liberal media! Unless you agree with it, I guess.DrBombay
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