"I faced in Vietnam, at times, very real threats to life and limb," [the loathsome antediluvian] said. "But while my sense of honor was tested in prison, it was not questioned. During the Keating inquiry, it was, and I regretted that very much."
He didn't have a chance to rip off the American taxpayers while he was a POW for five and a half years, you know.
He should also have regaled the audience with tales of how often he betrayed our nation by cooperating with the enemy... and how any expectation of his being loyal to the flag would be a waste since he couldn't be loyal to the wife he left while she was suffering through cancer.
ReplyDeleteSo why would anyone expect that he would be loyal to the flag?
It would have been compelling, and the audience would have sat on the edge of their chairs listening to him.