Mark Kirk Misstated Another Instance In Which He Was 'shot At'

The Huffington Post News Editors, Huffington Post
Fri, 06/04/2010 - 2:10pm

Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill) has been savaged in recent days over an ever-expanding list of incidents in which he misled, embellished, or simply lied about his service in various military outposts and units. Another one may soon be added to the list. In a questionnaire he filled out for the Chicago Sun-Times this past January, the Illinois Republican was asked to describe the "wildest thing" that he had ever done in his career. Kirk, who coasted with relative ease to the Republican senatorial nomination, replied: "Last year, I was with a Dutch armor unit in Kandahar, getting shot at." Such a recollection of his trip to Afghan outpost seems a bit more dramatic than the one Kirk gave to the Lake County News Sun one year prior, in which he explicitly said that "getting shot at" didn't happen. "It was very much of a combat environment," Kirk told the paper.

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