Daniel Inouye, Senator and Medal of Honor Recipient, Dead at 88

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He may be a war hero but I cannot forgive him for his partisan antics during the Iran Contra hearings.

Yep, good riddance as far as I am concerned. I was only 16 at the time but I watched the hearings almost every day. The contempt and disrespect Inouye and his democrat compatriots showed to Lt. Col North was attrocious. The composure and bearing North displayed in the face of it made a huge impression on me at the time and was one of the reason I later joined the Marine Corps.

On top of that Inouye had a long time F rating from the NRA so while he was a war hero 70 years ago he had no problem crapping on the constitution for the last 50 years.

I put him in about the same league as Specialist John Stebbins who won the silver star during the Battle of Mogidishu. He did some spectacularly heroic things in combat but that doesn't mean he is not a complete scumbag for things he did later on.

I had a First Sergeant tell our company once during a morning formation, "India! You can build a thousand bridges that never fall down and no one will ever call you a bridge builder, but you suck one $%#& just one %^&# and they will call you a %&^$ sucker for the rest of your life!."

Inouye was no bridge builder.