Is Zell Miller Suffering from a Mental Disorder?

And despite Eisenhower's warning, the Republicans in both houses had complicity in that war.

Again, my brother and others I've spoken to tell me it wasn't possible to keep that sort of thing a secret very long in Nam and that there were only a very small handful of such incidents. The basic story which Kerry was trying to tell is fiction.

The basic reality is that despite all the problems of the Vietnam war, our military generally conducted itself well and the vast majority of the people in it believed they were fighting a good cause. That's the thing which the left has still not come to grips with.

the vast majority of the people in it believed they were fighting a good cause

Blatham,

Well-stated, even poetic and moving, but also cynical and depressing - and not entirely accurate. Leaders do not exclusively define causes. Causes have their own existence and they can reside in the hearts of everyone involved in an enterprise, including those who do the fighting. I fought for my own reasons - not those of President Johnson.

Half-truths and embellishments are one thing; they're common at political conventions, vital flourishes for a theatrical air. Lies are another thing, and last night's Republican convention was soaked in them.

In the case of Sen. Zell Miller's keynote address, "lies" might be too strong a word. Clearly not a bright man, Miller dutifully recited the talking points that his Republican National Committee handlers had typed up for him, though perhaps in a more hysterical tone than anyone might have anticipated. (His stumbled rantings in the interviews afterward, on CNN and MSNBC, brought to mind the flat-Earthers who used to be guests on The Joe Pyne Show.) Can a puppet tell lies? Perhaps not.

Still, it is worth setting the record straight...

I fought for my own reasons - not those of President Johnson.

They made something different for Bush, a cake-y thing.