"There are few sins less forgivable in American politics than claiming unearned military valor. Richard Blumenthal...may consider his false claim to have served in Vietnam to be "a few misplaced words,"...but, in fact, this deception seems to have been part of a larger pattern of misleading voters.
"There is nothing wrong with having received multiple military deferments during the Vietnam period, as Mr. Blumenthal did, and neither those deferments nor the details of his service in the reserve have any bearing on his fitness to become a senator.
"But his embellishments do. Mr. Blumenthal, who has an exemplary record as attorney general, has only a few months to demonstrate that they are an aberration and not a disqualifying character trait."
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