Roy Moore (potential AL gov candidate) attacks Vietnam vets

[Rose Siding]

and everyone else he can think of...

Moore writes of 'sinister enemies' in book

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The former Alabama Supreme Court chief justice, defender of Ten Commandments monuments and onetime amateur boxer punches through bout after bout, with God always in his corner, in an autobiography being released this week.

In "So Help Me God," Moore names a long list of adversaries he has had to overcome: fellow cadets at West Point who hazed the country boy with the Southern accent, the drug-ridden and undisciplined military police he commanded in Vietnam, Etowah County judges who denied him a living as a lawyer, the "inquisition" of Alabama's Judicial Inquiry Commission, most judges in general, criminal defense lawyers, homosexuals, the gambling lobby and, constantly, the American Civil Liberties Union.
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In Vietnam, Moore commanded a company of military police guarding a storage facility in Da Nang. Drug use and insubordination were widespread, he said.

At other bases "perimeter defense often suffered as soldiers high on drugs failed to keep a vigilant watch on the enemy. Viet Cong infiltrators could explode ammunitions supplies and escape without detection," Moore asserts.

Nicknamed "Captain America," by the troops, Moore says he administered so many disciplinary charges that "I became a marked man and received several threats."

You have to scroll down to the second article on the page
http://www.postherald.com/me022805.shtml

[RubyDuby in GA]

1. Sorry to our AL people, but

thank gawd for this nutjob. He makes us look good over in GA - and that's saying A LOT!

[CottonBear]

7. What Ruby said. eom

[Zenlitened]

2. Paranoid schizophrenia, anyone?

Seriously, this guy is a walking billboard for the religious zealotry/mental illness debate.

Is his religious fundamentalism actually the expression of a mental illness?

:shrug:

[7th_Sephiroth]

3. i am proud to say that

I spit on this man once

[CottonBear]

6. No way! You really did that?

Where were you and did you get arrested? I think this man is a total raving lunatic. I know that we've got some Xtian fundamentalists here in GA and way too many 10 Commandments yard signs but you poor folks over there in Alabama have one of the most insane and scary wingnuts ever to walk the earth.

[7th_Sephiroth]

15. Pensacola as he was walking out of the church

no one noticed cause of all the media

[RubyDuby in GA]

17. I shall raise a glass to you this evening

and toast your spirit. Good job :thumbsup:

[punpirate]

4. Good thing Moore isn't...

... a twin. Don't think the world could handle two of him....

Interesting bit about the county judges who "denied him a living as a lawyer." Maybe he wasn't any good at it.

Or, maybe, there were strawberries involved....

[DemoTex]

5. Re Vietnam: If Moore was the asshole then that he is now ...

I'm surprised one or more of the drugged-up MPs in his command did not frag him.

[CottonBear]

9. They probably needed to do drugs to tolerate "Captain America."

Without the drugs, they might well have fragged him.

[donsu]

13. I thought the same thing - lucky man

nt

[Vickers]

8. At least he showed up for duty in Vietnam, unlike Bush, who tucked tail

and ran to a bar stateside, then to an after-hours place to snort coke.

Please let this guy run for Prezdint in '08 is all I can say. :P

[zbdent]

10. Just think if a Dem had said anything like that

It would be all over the news faster than Drudge could pull out of Gannon . . .

[Rose Siding]

11. Exactly- Look what they did with Kerry's congressional testimony

about statements make by others at the Winter Soldiers convention.

[Village Idiot]

12. Too bad.....

no one fragged the ba$tard when they had the chance InCountry....

[onenote]

14. it would be interesting to see Roy's military records n/t

[noonwitch]

16. He was probably like Doug Niedermeyer (Animal House)

His unit probably wanted to kill him, but were better people than that.