The Hype of Paul Vallely
by Larry Johnson
Mon Dec 5th, 2005 at 11:59:24 AM EST
by Larry C. Johnson (bio below)
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.
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.
His personality, incidentally, lends itself to being quite a salesman. He sure sold himself to Fox somehow?
Paul is not a bad guy. He is amiable. And, unlike most of the Bush supporters in Washington, he actually had a son in the military. He was not just an armchair hawk. Sadly, his son was killed in a training accident in 2004 while preparing to go to Iraq. But, all of this does not make him an expert on Iraq or military tactics for a counter insurgency strategy. Paul has been part of the chorus claiming Joe Wilson lied. Paul should remember that those who live glass houses should not be throwing rocks.
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