{"id":19191,"date":"2010-05-20T10:22:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-20T15:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=19191"},"modified":"2010-05-20T11:05:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-20T16:05:13","slug":"who-are-the-ct-vets-who-hold-off-condemnation-of-blumenthal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=19191","title":{"rendered":"Who are the CT vets who “hold off” condemnation of Blumenthal"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s an article in the CT New Times entitled “Area Vietnam Veterans Hold Off Condemnation of Blumenthal<\/a>” about the revelation that Connecticut’s Attorney General had been lying about his service during the Vietnam War<\/a>. The reporter mentions five veterans who don’t seem to care much about Blumenthal’s lying – a couple even cite the “everybody does it” excuse.<\/p>\n

One name jumped out at me – Paul Bucha. Now Bucha is an honest-to-goodness Medal of Honor recipient for his actions in Vietnam and I don’t mean to denigrate his service in the least, but Bucha said in the article;<\/p>\n

“I hope it isn’t true,” said Paul Bucha, of Ridgefield, who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in Vietnam. “He’s a decent guy. I’d like to believe in our better angels.”<\/p>\n

Bucha declined to speculate about what his opinion might be if Blumenthal were proved to be intentionally lying.<\/p>\n

“My reaction might be far more dramatic than other people,” he said, nothing that some of the men he commanded in Vietnam were killed there.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But maybe the reporter should have mentioned that Paul Bucha is a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat who famously campaigned for President Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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There are rumors going around that Bucha is the fellow who advised President Obama’s staff that they could skip the “Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball” for Medal of Honor recipients<\/a>. Only rumors, mind you, I don’t mean to lend credence to rumors.<\/p>\n

There’s nothing wrong with Mr. Bucha supporting Obama, of course, but it seems to me that if the reporter wanted to give just a few examples of veterans’ opinions, he’d want us to know from whom those quotes are coming and who, exactly, was supporting Blumenthal’s duplicity. <\/p>\n

Knowing this about Mr. Bucha makes me doubt the intentions of the other four veterans in the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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