Bob Dole's War Wounds Self-Inflicted (On Purpose!)

[VaLabor]

Yes, it's true (possibly!).

Someone I know who did not serve with Bob Dole in Italy says, with 100% certainty, that, although lacking any documentation whatsoever, Bob Dole self-inflicted his wounds on purpose.

You see, it was all part of a plan. Bob Dole knew he would be a Senator who would run for President and be defeated, only to attempt a return to political relevance by jumping into a Presidential campaign and blasting another vet for receiving an award for what some partisan hacks claim were superficial, undeserving, non-bleeding wounds, even though they had no personal documentation and even though shrapnel would remain in that vet's leg for life.

And you see, the only way Bob Dole could credibly enter the fray was if he too had been wounded at war.

Understanding this, the scheming soldier from Kansas made sure he jumped in the way of that Nazi machine gun fire.

However ridiculous this may sound, it's exactly what the Swift Boat Liars are claiming of Kerry.

I think my unfounded allegation deserves a FoxNews Alert! Whaddaya say, Rupert?

[the Kelly Gang]

1. I've heard the same..from someone I know who knows an Italian

whose father was alive at the time who heard it from a German soldier who heard it from a prostitute who was told it by another German.

why are all the other WW2 veterans lying to protect Bob Dole ?

[VaLabor]

2. So that's two people!

Someone else told me that Bob Dole's arm is perfectly fine and, in fact, has a mean backhand in table tennis.

Where is my FoxNews Alert?

FLASH: Is Bob Dole Faking His War Injury? Some people say he's a faker! We report, you decide.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. Who the hell would ever believe a Nazi would shoot a Neocon?

Hell they're all on the same side!

[VaLabor]

4. Tomorrow's headline

Bob Dole: 'Bob Dole is not faking it'

[B Calm]

5. My dad served in WW2 and he says the same thing about Dole

[harmonyguy]

6. After hearing Dole with Blitzer today.....

... I was beginning to wonder if he was trying to further smear Kerry or to get others to back off on the AWOL story.

When he questioned whether or not Kerry bled, or whether or not he got compensation, it got quite out of hand.

Since when is drawing compensation an indication of whether or not someone was injured?

My folks both served in WWII, and they both knew a guy named Bob who had been on-the-dole a bit too long.

HG

[bvar22]

7. This story is absolutely true!

Some people are saying that about bob Dole.

[kskiska]

8. Dole's First Wound

As published in The Nation (Aug12/19, 1996).

(snip)

# Dole's first wound.

It was in the first of these night patrols that Dole received the wound for which he was awarded his first Purple Heart. He ruefully confesses in his 1988 autobiography that his wound was self-inflicted: "As we approached the enemy, there was a brief exchange of gunfire. I took a grenade in hand, pulled the pin, and tossed it in the direction of the farmhouse. It wasn't a very good pitch (remember, I was used to catching passes, not throwing them). In the darkness, the grenade must have struck a tree and bounced off. It exploded nearby, sending a sliver of metal into my leg -- the sort of injury the Army patched up with Mercurochrome and a Purple Heart." The wound was so minor that he led another patrol two nights later. He does not mention that others were also injured by his misguided throw -- which Woodruff's account attributes to an enemy machine gun.

Dole's version seems to have gotten chewed up in the myth-making machinery. Richard Ben Cramer, in his book Bob Dole, is the only one of the biographers to give Dole's account. Hilton says only that Dole "suffered a slight leg wound in March 1945, and earned a Purple Heart, but he went right on leading his platoon." In his 1994 biography Bob Dole: The Republicans' Man for All Seasons, Thompson, the Kansas CityStar reporter, who had interviewed Dole, says, "One of his group pulled the pin on a hand grenade and threw it.... A small grenade fragment cut into Dole's leg and lightly injured several others. The men were patched up and each was awarded a Purple Heart."

Most significant, in a 1982 Washingtonian article currently being distributed by the Dole campaign, which Dole praises in a cover letter as "events brilliantly captured in print by my friend Noel Koch," Koch says nothing about Dole's errant toss of the grenade. Rather, he quotes Dole as saying, "I think one of ours might have bounced off a tree and rolled back.... Sometimes it was like a shooting gallery in the dark. You didn't know where the stuff was coming from or whose it was." Apparently, Dole approved this revisionist version.

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http://www.tedellis.net/dole-article.htm

[HEyHEY]

9. An old war buddy of Doles came to me in a dream and said the same thing

!!