Pat Dollard | Young Americans

What’s the frequency again, Kenneth?

The second Hussein nominated this man, I said it was a mistake, because he was a whack job loon who’d say anything - and not just for poltical reasons, just cos he’s crazy. WHICH TELLS US WHAT ABOUT HUSSEIN’S JUDGEMENT? If I knew, why didn’t Berkowitz Hussein Oberkeley know?

Unlike Clinton, Biden Gets Pass for Saying He Was ‘Shot At’ in Iraq.When Hillary Clinton told a tall tale about “landing under sniper fire” in Bosnia, she was accused of “inflating her war experience” by Barack Obama’s campaign — but the campaign has been silent about Joe Biden telling his own questionable story about being “shot at” in Iraq.

ARLINGTON, VA — Today, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Michael J. Durant (Ret.) issued the following statement on Joe Biden’s apparently false accounts of near-misses on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq:

“Senator Biden claimed at a debate last year that he’d been ’shot at’ while visiting Iraq. And he has claimed repeatedly, most recently last week, that his helicopter was ‘forced down’ in Afghanistan — leaving his audience with the impression that it was fire from the Taliban which had grounded the aircraft. Neither of these stories appears to be true, and Senator Biden has never accounted for the discrepancies.

“I’ve been on a helicopter that was ‘forced down’ by enemy fire, and I’ve been ’shot at.’ Neither is easily confused with being caught in a snow storm or awakened by a loud bang in the night. Senator Biden has a responsibility to come clean on what actually happened, and explain why he would ever say such things to the American people. And with the Vice Presidential Debate coming up on Thursday, it is incumbent on the news media to ask Senator Biden the tough questions — as they have so far failed to do — and examine his responses closely for inconsistencies of the kind we’ve witnessed in recent months.

“The American people expect and deserve leaders who tell the truth about their record and their experiences, and a news media that holds all candidates — no matter their party — to the same standard.”

Background On Michael Durant

Michael Durant, CW4 (Retired), US Army; born July 23, 1961 in Berlin, NH. He entered the United States Army in August 1979. Following basic training he attended the Defense Language Institute, and was then assigned to the 470th Military Intelligence Group, Fort Clayton, Panama as a Spanish voice intercept operator. He then completed helicopter flight training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Upon appointment to Warrant Officer 1 in November 1983, he completed the UH60 Black Hawk Qualification Course and was assigned to the 377th Medical Evacuation Company, Seoul Korea. His next assignment was with the 101st Aviation Battalion, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where he performed duties as an instructor pilot.

Michael joined the 160th Special Operations Group on August 1, 1988. Assigned to D company, he performed duties as Flight Lead and Standardization Instructor Pilot. He participated in combat operations Prime Chance (Persian Gulf in 1989), Just Cause (Panama invasion in 1989), Desert Storm (Liberation of Kuwait in 1991), and Gothic Serpent (Somalia in 1993).

On October 3, 1993, while piloting an MH60 Black Hawk in Mogadishu, Somalia, he was shot down and held captive by hostile forces. He was released eleven days later.