Alex Pires (I) questions Tom Carper's Vietnam service during the DE Senate Debate

[LynneSin]

I don't know who this douchebag is but I hope he crawls back under the rock wherever he came from.

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20121025/NEWS0201/310250048/Fur-flies-Carper-fends-off-attacks

DOVER — Sen. Tom Carper was attacked by his political opponents on health care and his military service during an often unruly debate at Delaware State University on Wednesday.

Republican Kevin Wade, a Christiana businessman, suggested Carper did not read the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s sweeping health care law, before voting to pass the legislation in early 2010, setting off a firestorm of criticism of Delaware’s senior senator.

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Pires went on to call Carper a “professional parasite” and question his military service, saying he never served in Vietnam despite claims to the contrary.Carper did not immediately respond, but later passionately defended his military service, saying he served in the region gathering intelligence during the Vietnam War.

“I served for five years as a Naval flight officer active duty during the war in Southeast Asia,” Carper said. “I just hope that he will say, that Mr. Pires will say to the P3 crews that were shot down, killed off the coast of Vietnam and Cambodia that they weren’t Vietnam vets. I was a Vietnam veteran. They were Vietnam veterans. It’s time that Vietnam veterans got a little respect from their country,” said Carper to loud applause.

[Glorfindel]

1. We Vietnam vets seem to be an embarrassment to our country

I don't expect ever to get any respect (except on Democratic Underground, of course!), and neither should Senator Carper. It's just a fact of life, like death and taxes. Ask Max Cleland, Al Gore, and John Kerry.