Foreign Policy Whiz KidBiden
...Candidate for president in 2020. You're a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier...
for an "abhorrent" story he shared about a veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Retired Marine Johnny "Joey" Jones told "Fox & Friends" on Wednesday that he was "personally offended" by the story Biden shared at a campaign stop in the battleground state of Florida where he spoke on veterans issues. The former vice president pressed for an end to the "stigma" around mental health treatment as he told the story in Tampa on Tuesday.
Jones questioned whether Biden’s story was even
"There was a Marine veteran that had been deployed a total of six times," Biden recounted in his speech Tuesday.
"Dodge Ram started down the street in front of his house. .. [He] saw a woman walking her dog, ran over her, killed her, killed the dog, put her in the back of his pickup truck... molested her ... came home ... and called the state police and said, ’I just killed someone,’" he continued.
I have a fairly severe case of PTSD. I don't feel any "stigma." When I sit in a public place I like to have my back against the wall so I can see people coming in. I react to loud noises and I hate crowds. I'm a crappier husband and father than I should be. There are certain odors what will zone me out -- I'll be in two places and times at once. I've never run over anyone with my pickup truck, never killed anyone's dog, never molested any corpses. Nor have I ever read a news story about anyone who had done all those things, and I try (see rantburg.com archives) to keep up with the news. I do get irritated at people who're "triggered" by some minor irritation. Try sitting through a few rocket or artillery attacks, or having holes shot in your plane, and you'll understand "triggered." Those who have done either or both will understand my point.
"There was a voice in my head saying, ’I have to kill someone,’" Biden added, going on to say, "We have to end the stigma surrounding mental health treatment."There's a voice in my head shouting "bullshit!"
Jones, who lost both of his legs in an IED explosion while serving in Afghanistan, told "Fox & Friends" co-host Steve Doocy that Biden’s story "literally equates serving in war to becoming evil," and that it "undid 10 years of work in the military nonprofit mental health community of actually removing a stigma."
"These men and women may lose their will to live, but they don’t lose their soul," Jones continued. "They may hurt themselves, but they don’t go hurting others. It’s very rare, and for him [Biden] to tell that story just because he thought it had some shock value and somehow likened himself to this issue just shows how out of touch he is."
The Fox News contributor and retired USMC bomb technician suggested that the "worst part" was that the Democrat probably didn’t even "understand the point of his own story."
"He doesn’t understand the point he is trying to drive home," Jones said. "And so, I can guarantee you if that story is true, I put my life on it that man had other issues that were not connected to war and might not have even went to war."
When I came back from Vietnam the fashionable set was "concerned" that every vet was a potential nut job. I suppose lots of us were, and maybe still are. But we're not murderous nut jobs. Joe, being of approximately my generation, watched too much TV in 1970.
In a post on his Twitter account, Jones contended that the story was more like "a HUGE outlier, not the norm for war-injured vets."
I suspect the story lies outside the realm of truth. I think Joe's a lyin' dog-faced pony soldier.
Doocy asked about several other tweets that the veteran had posted in which he slammed Biden for his "disgusting display of inept pandering."