"Paul has been part of the chorus claiming Joe Wilson lied. Paul should ..

[understandinglife]

... should remember that those who live in glass houses should not be throwing rocks.

It is time for FOX NEWs and one of its “military” analysts to come clean. I refer to Major General Paul Vallely, who has emerged in the last month with the claim that Joe Wilson told Vallely that his wife was a CIA operative. I know Joe Wilson and Paul Vallely and do not find the General’s claim to be credible. What is more important to know is that Paul Vallely is not what his bio suggests. It is true that he is a West Point Graduate and served in Vietnam. For that we owe him our thanks as a nation.

But, Vallely did not stay in the regular Army. Instead, he joined the Army reserve as a major and rose thru the ranks to become a RESERVE Major General. That is very different from regular Army officers who served full time.

Some of his classmates at West Point note that he was not the brightest bulb (one says he had a “W at Yale” personality). If he started talking about anything of substance, his plodding intelligence coupled with his personality probably could lead someone to think he was a braggart. Out of 530 grads in his class, he was number 508 (22 from the bottom). Among West Point grads that is known as a “goat”.

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If all his accomplishments per his Fox bio were true, he would be one remarkable human being. If all the accomplishments and experiences occurred as Fox infers, Paul would have to be 150 years old. His bio lists so many places he served that I believe it would be equivalent to me taking a trip around the world and saying I had lived in India when I had actually spent two nights in a hotel there.

More at the link to The Hype of Paul Vallely by Larry Johnson on December 5, 2005:

http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2005/12/the_hype_of_pau.html#more

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Peace.