Lawmaker admits he was not Green Beret

[blueinindiana]

MADISON, Wis. — After describing himself as a Green Beret for nearly two decades, state Rep. Terry Musser said he did not qualify for the U.S. Army Special Forces and apologized for misrepresenting his military service.
“It has never been my intent to mislead anyone about my military service,” said Musser, R-Black River Falls. “I apologize if anyone felt I misled them in any way.”
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http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/03/ap_no_green_beret_070326/

[yardwork]

1. R-Naturally

[dogday]

2. Just another way the right uses the military... nt

[realisticphish]

3. no, no

he was just "supporting the troops"

[madinmaryland]

4. But I thought Faux News was claiming he was a Democrat!

[Clark2008]

5. Well, Rep. Musser, my husband WAS attached to the US

Army Special Forces unit as a translator and trained with those guys - he doesn't accept your apology. POSUER!

[corkhead]

6. notice how these type of stories never involve a Democrat?

Lying is the single most important tool in the republick toolchest.

[tandot]

A Republican, of course. Born to lie...

[maddezmom]

7. misled? He LIED

geebus :eyes: party of responsiblity and all that stuff. :puke:

[BOSSHOG]

8. Same with the Head of the American Legion

A conservative bush supporting lunatic says on his bio that he is a Vietnam Vet. He served his time in the Army at Fort Dix New Jersey. Another brave motherfucker.

And dipshit musser is only sorry if you were misled. Per his statement he ain't sorry he lied.

[TahitiNut]

32. Funny how some "Viet Nam Era Veterans" often seem to forget to say "Era," huh?

It's been my experience that they're the most likely to wear bizarre 'uniforms' and make loud noises.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

41. Not only that but he specifically made a statement about when "we" "came home":

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/12/03/legion_chief_alters_line_on_war_service/

And three months ago, Morin said he hopes that servicemen returning from Iraq will be treated better than those who returned from Vietnam. "When we came home, life was a little different. We do not want to see any veteran ever returning to what we did, so we'll be there to be welcoming them home with open arms," Morin said, according to a transcript of his interview with the Pentagon Channel , the Defense Department's television network.

But the only place Morin ever returned from was Fort Dix, N.J. According to his military records, Morin spent his entire two years of Army service, from 1972 to 1974, at that Army training base . In fact, before he sought the coveted one-year term as national president of the country's largest veterans' organization, Morin was content to be known as a "Vietnam-era" veteran -- a signal to other veterans that he did not serve in Vietnam.

[lpbk2713]

9. *It has never been my intent to mislead anyone ..... *

* .... it's just that I never had a chance to tell the truth at any time in the last 40 years.

[Dhalgren]

10. I hate this kind of weasel-esque apology!

“It has never been my intent to mislead anyone about my military service,” said Musser, R-Black River Falls. “I apologize if anyone felt I misled them in any way.”


When he lied about his military service, it was not his "intent to mislead"? What the hell was your intent, shitface? Just lying, because you thought it would be cute?

He is sorry for lying, only if anyone "felt" he had "misled them in any way." How do people usually feel when they have been lied to for over twenty years? Do you think that they might feel, oh, I don't know, MISLED? Jesus, you shitbag, canker-sore of a pustule...

[IA_Seth]

13. Lol.

We posted the same pissy feelings about his worthless apology about the same time. I guess that means we are right.

[Dhalgren]

20. LOL - great minds and all that...

:hi:

[Critters2]

29. Yep, "I'm sorry if..." is NOT an apology.

Apologies start with "I'm sorry that I..."

[IA_Seth]

11. Nice non-apology.

"I apologize if anyone felt misled..."

How bout apologizing for lying ya douchebag, regardless of who felt misled.

[H2O Man]

12. Pathetic.

How the heck can he say he is sorry if "anyone felt (he) misled them in any way"?

[TahitiNut]

35. It's generosity of spirit that expresses sorrow over another person's "mistake."

:silly: After all, it's not really his fault if others FELT misled. :crazy:

[wicket]

14. Um, YOU LIED, buddy

:eyes:

[H2O Man]

16. He "misremembered"?

Perhaps it was that pesky phone call to Tim Russert that caused this confusion?

[wicket]

39. He misremembered and misunderestimated his position

:D

[hvn_nbr_2]

15. I never intended that my lies would mislead anyone.

:crockOfHooey:

[yurbud]

17. bold that R and make it bigger

[DefenseLawyer]

18. No No I WORE a beret

and a jaunty beret at that, not as part of a military uniform, just around my apartment. Sorry for the mix-up.

[Critters2]

27. It was a lovely shade of green, too ! nt

[Scriptor Ignotus]

19. ummmmmm

how did this go 20 years without being corrected?

[Disturbed]

21. He never intended to get caught in a pathetic lie.

After 20 years someone finally called him to account.

[karlrschneider]

22. NO! He actually said "I had a CLEAN beret"! It was all just a misunderstanding!

:eyes:

[Canuckistanian]

23. Sure ,he was a Green Beret

And Jeff Gannon was a Division Commander. Together, they re-enacted a troop insertion.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

25. LOL

jeez. that's what happens when you ask and tell?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

24. but my KP service was superb. No one brushed pots and pans cleaner than I

and I even got a medal for it.

[Critters2]

26. "Never been my intent to mislead..."?

I'm amazed at the way repugs accidentally lie.

[Rex]

28. How offensive. Did he actually serve in the military?

What a shitbag.

[Bake]

30. Can ANY of these bastards ever tell the damn truth????

I have never seen anything like it, the way Pukes lie. CONSTANTLY lie.

Bake

[ChairmanAgnostic]

33. it must be genetic.

I can't think of any other reason for them all lying all the time, even when they don't need to.

[TacticalPeek]

31. Way to own up,

asshole.

[trumad]

36. As an ex-paratrooper with the 82nd...

I can say for a fact that saying that you were a Green Beret when if fact you were not is about the most dishonorable thing you can do.

[guitar man]

40. not only that

telling such a lie can get one's ass kicked, I've seen it happen.

[tblue37]

34. WTF???

“It has never been my intent to mislead anyone about my military service,” said Musser, R-Black River Falls.

If he didn't intend to mislead anyone, then why did he tell the lie--and continue to tell it for two decades?

[JHB]

37. Check out his official bio:

http://www.legis.state.wi.us/leginfo/contact/legislatorpages.aspx?house=Assembly&district=92&display=bio
Biography
Born Black River Falls, November 15, 1947; married; 2 children, 4 grandchildren. Graduate Melrose H.S.; attended UW-La Crosse 1973-76. Farmer. Former driver license examiner. Vietnam veteran, 2 tours; paratrooper and Green Beret, 6th Special Forces, Fort Bragg, NC, 1965-68. Member: Wis. Vietnam Veterans Chapter 3 (life mbr.); Vietnam Veterans of America (life mbr.); American Legion (life mbr.); Veterans of Foreign Wars, Post 2112, Sparta (life mbr.); Disabled American Veterans, Black River Falls (life mbr.); AMVETS, Post 5494, Black River Falls (life mbr.); Monroe County 40 et 8; Wis. Farm Bureau Federation; Cataract Sportsman Club.

Elected to Assembly since 1984.
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"Never been my intent to mislead anyone"?!?!?

So what, you just do it by accident? "Whoops! I did it again!"?

Hand him a helmet and ship him to street patrols in Iraq. He's got what? 20 years of claims to pay back?

[LynnTheDem]

38. "I apologize if you were stupid enough to believe my lie."

More lies from the rightwingnuttery...how surprising. :eyes: