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  Cleland Conservation Park - Cleland Conservation Park and Wildlife Park
Whatever the reason, South Australians along with their visiting friends and family are invited to re-visit Cleland Wildlife Park for one or more of the special '40 Wild Days' and help celebrate this special year in Cleland's history.
Cleland Wildlife Park is a must-see attraction and photo opportunity for visitors from all over the world.
Cleland Conservation Park has been a protective haven for native flora and fauna since 1963, but the impacts of a long history of timber felling and agriculture are still evident in the park.
www.cleland.sa.gov.au   (1799 words)

  
  Max Cleland - SourceWatch   (Site not responding. Last check: )
CPT Cleland was on a mountaintop with his Signal team to set up a radio relay when he lost his legs and right arm to a grenade explosion.
Cleland originally co-sponsored the enabling legislation and eventually supported it, but as the bill moved through Congress, he cast a number of votes against it in hopes of getting a better bill.
In February 2004, "vitriolic right-wing ideologue" Ann Coulter wrote that Cleland should not be referred to as a war hero, as he had lost his limbs in a routine non-combat misssion.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Max_Cleland   (1360 words)

  
 "The president ought to be ashamed" - Salon
He drew the wrath of liberals in 2001 when he broke ranks with Democrats and voted for President Bush's tax cuts, and last year he backed the resolution authorizing Bush to wage war with Iraq (though on that vote, at least, he was joined by some liberals).
Cleland, perhaps known for being a triple amputee Vietnam vet, lost his Senate seat last November in a race that has gone down in history as typifying the GOP's take-no-prisoners approach to politics.
Cleland denies it, but if he were still bitter, it would be easy to see why, considering he was the victim of a now-infamous attack ad, which even some Republicans objected to.
dir.salon.com /story/news/feature/2003/11/21/cleland/index.html   (1060 words)

  
 Free Press : What Scott Cleland (and Co.) Doesn’t Get About Net Neutrality
Cleland was once known for his in-depth, informed and passionate analysis about the intersections between technology and policy.
Cleland and others conveniently claim that the battle over network neutrality is just a digital food fight among giants.
Cleland’s backers wish to control that future—otherwise they would have to content themselves with only the (considerable) revenues from fair-minded distribution.
www.freepress.net /news/17998   (576 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Cleland drops a political grenade
Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends.
Cleland, a word of advice: When a slimy weasel like Terry McAuliffe is vouching for your combat record, it's time to sound "retreat" on that subject.
Cleland had refused to vote for the Homeland Security bill unless it was chock-full of pro-union perks that would have jeopardized national security.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37082   (985 words)

  
 Rich Lowry on Max Cleland on National Review Online
Cleland, who came back from Vietnam a triple amputee, travels often with Sen. John Kerry as the leader of the presidential candidate's "band of brothers." On the campaign trail, he is considered a sainted political martyr, the embodiment of liberal victimhood in the Age of Bush.
Cleland still opposed it, setting himself up for the charge that he was voting with liberals and the public-employees unions against Bush and Georgia common sense.
Cleland's undoing was that he couldn't negotiate the dilemma facing many Southern Democrats — how to vote liberal in Washington while appearing conservative at home.
www.nationalreview.com /lowry/lowry200402200857.asp   (678 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Cleland drops a political grenade
Cleland lost three limbs in an accident during a routine noncombat mission where he was about to drink beer with friends.
Cleland, a word of advice: When a slimy weasel like Terry McAuliffe is vouching for your combat record, it's time to sound "retreat" on that subject.
Cleland had refused to vote for the Homeland Security bill unless it was chock-full of pro-union perks that would have jeopardized national security.
worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=37082   (976 words)

  
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Cleland, as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, is saying President Bush’s military record is inferior to Kerry’s service in Vietnam.
Cleland was wounded picking up a grenade that someone else had dropped.
Cleland was on his way back to Atlanta Friday night and was not available for comment.
www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=42941   (430 words)

  
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Last Modified: 2/15/2004 5:23:40 PM Former Sen. Max Cleland defended his military service record Saturday night in response to comments from columnist and television commenter Ann Coulter that accused him of playing up injuries he suffered in the Vietnam War for political gain.
Coulter, in a column published this week, said that Cleland, who lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam, is no war hero, but rather a victim of a tragic, accidental grenade explosion who plays up his amputations for political gain.
In fact, Cleland was wounded picking up a grenade that someone else dropped, during what he says was a combat mission.
www.11alive.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=42979   (531 words)

  
 Cleland Homes -- Three Generations of Bringing You Home. Located in South Bend, Indiana
Cleland Homes -- Three Generations of Bringing You Home.
At Cleland Homes we understand that the customer wants two things: a quality home at a great price.
Cleland Homes is licensed to build in Indiana and Michigan!
www.clelandhomes.com   (155 words)

  
 Cleland Conservation Park - Cleland Conservation Park and Wildlife Park
Cleland Wildlife Park is a must-see attraction and photo opportunity for visitors from all over the world.
Cleland Conservation Park has been a protective haven for native flora and fauna since 1963, but the impacts of a long history of timber felling and agriculture are still evident in the park.
The Friends of Cleland volunteer group may be contacted through the Department for Environment and Heritage's Cleland office on (61 8) 8339 2444.
www.parks.sa.gov.au /cleland/index.htm   (1799 words)

  
 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States
Max Cleland is a distinguished adjunct professor at American University's Washington Semester Program, where he also serves as a fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies.
After serving as Georgia's secretary of state from 1982-1995, Cleland was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 where he served as chairman of the Personnel Subcommittee of the Armed Services Committee, and was a member of the Senate Veteran's Affairs Committee.
Cleland is author of Strong at the Broken Places and Going for the Max!: 12 Principles for Living Life to the Fullest.
www.9-11commission.gov /about/bio_cleland.htm   (313 words)

  
 Cleland Warns Against Repeating Tonkin Gulf Mistake - January 31, 1998
For Democratic Sen. Max Cleland of Georgia, the proposed congressional resolution endorsing a strong U.S. response to Iraq bore a disconcerting resemblance to a document three decades ago -- the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution that essentially gave the president a blank check to wage the Vietnam War.
Cleland, a former Army captain who lost both legs and one arm in a grenade explosion during the war, led a handful of dissenting Democrats on Jan.
That wording was discomfiting to Cleland, who questioned whether history was on the verge of repeating itself.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/02/cq/iraq.html   (711 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | "The White House Has Played Cover-Up" - Former 9/11 Commission Member Max Cleland Blasts Bush
We speak with former commission member Max Cleland who was the chief critic of the White House's lack of cooperation in the investigation.
In October last year, Cleland said the Bush administration was purposely stalling the investigation because of the 2004 election.
In December 2003, Cleland stepped down from the commission to become a member of the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/03/23/1546256   (1877 words)

  
 Will draft fears sway voters? - Tom Curry - MSNBC.com
Cleland and Dean tell students that Bush would conscript them and ship them to Iraq
John Kerry greets former Sen. Max Cleland, a frequent companion on the campaign trail, at the Democratic convention in Boston.
Cleland has been in a wheelchair since 1968 when he lost both legs and one arm in a grenade accident in Vietnam.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/6027815   (1028 words)

  
 NOW: Transcript - Frank Sesno talks with Max Cleland | PBS
As a young man, he enlisted in the Army and served in Vietnam, where he was seriously injured by a hand grenade.
Cleland was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996, establishing his expertise not only in veterans and health issues, but in bio-terrorism and homeland security.
CLELAND: First of all, you got to go back and get the UN in there.
www.pbs.org /now/transcript/transcript_cleland.html   (1801 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: John Cleland
However, the quality of writing was so impressive, Cleland managed to wrangle a pension from one of the authority figures present at his trial (though he would then write far tamer stuff).
Cleland, who took an early retirement from pornagraphy after Fanny Hill's publication got him a brief stint in jail and a lifelong pension, wrote a few more works in his lifetime.
This companion book, Memoirs of a Coxcomb, about a male prostitute and relying perhaps on the experiences of both Cleland and his father, was long suppressed, not seeing publication until many years after the expurgated Woman of Pleasure became available.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/JohnClelandeBooks.htm   (212 words)

  
 Matthew Yglesias / proudly eponymous since 2002   (Site not responding. Last check: )
If you read Tom Ricks' Fiasco, Cleland more-or-less admits that he thought authorizing the use of military force against Iraq was a bad idea, but he voted to do it anyway because he thought it would inoculate him against GOP attacks.
Cleland was pretty much toast, no matter what commercials they ran against him or how he fought back.
I think Josh Marshall's point about Cleland's disability was to highlight the audacity of the Republican attempt to question the patriotism of a man who literally gave so much of himself for his country.
www.matthewyglesias.com /archives/2006/10/cleland   (3933 words)

  
 Cleland Conservation Park - Cleland Conservation Park and Wildlife Park
Whatever the reason, South Australians along with their visiting friends and family are invited to re-visit Cleland Wildlife Park for one or more of the special '40 Wild Days' and help celebrate this special year in Cleland's history.
Cleland Wildlife Park offers guided tours (one hour duration) for groups wishing to receive a more informative experience.
The Cleland Wildlife Park - Further information is available by telephone: (61 8) 8339 2444 or e-mail clelandwildlifepark@saugov.sa.gov.au.
www.environment.sa.gov.au /parks/cleland   (1799 words)

  
 SwiftVets.com :: View topic - Max Cleland
This summer, Cleland is starring in an anti-Iraq War documentary, "Strong at the Broken Places." In the film, Cleland, who lost an arm and both legs in Vietnam, talks to wounded soldiers and the families of the dead.
Most importantly, however, Cleland is the star of a Democratic political tale retold by everyone from Bill Clinton to Al Gore to Terry McAuliffe.
Specifically, Chambliss slammed Cleland's 1997 vote on an amendment to a chemical weapons treaty that would have allowed citizens of terrorism-sponsoring countries to participate in international enforcement inspections.
www.swiftvets.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=3433&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=   (1770 words)

  
 Byron York on Sen. Max Cleland and George W. Bush on National Review Online
In a conference call with reporters, Cleland said the president went to war in Iraq “because he concluded that his daddy was a failed president” for not having removed Saddam Hussein from power after the first Gulf War.
Cleland also said the president’s famous “16 word” contention that Iraq sought uranium in Africa “is a lie.” When asked if he believes former ambassador Joseph Wilson, the Bush critic whose story was substantially undermined in the new Senate report on pre-war intelligence, Cleland said, “I do believe that Joe Wilson is telling the truth.
Cleland condemned the Bush administration for what he said were its illegal efforts to discredit Wilson by publicly identifying his wife, a former covert CIA operative, as the person who recommended him to investigate the African uranium matter.
www.nationalreview.com /york/york200407191129.asp   (408 words)

  
 Salon.com Books | "I've been in combat too long"
Former Sen. Max Cleland blasts the "total folly" of Iraq -- and says he still hasn't gotten over the GOP smears that ended his political career.
After graduating from college he entered the Army as a signal officer and was given a desk job, but requested a transfer to Vietnam.
During the siege of Khe Sanh, after surviving five days of point-blank rocket attacks on his hillside position, Cleland boarded a Chinook helicopter to set up a new communications post.
www.salon.com /books/feature/2006/04/03/cleland   (430 words)

  
 SwiftVets.com :: View topic - Max Cleland says attacks on Kerry cause suicides in Vets?
I suppose he thinks it was an uplifting experience for us to receive the crude “Welcome Home” that many of us received.
It is really sad that Cleland has decided to align himself with those who were responsible for all the damage inflicted on vets through these many years.
Cleland is so caught up in his bitterness about losing his senate seat that he can no longer think rationally.
www.swiftvets.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=54797   (689 words)

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