Buyer The Liar

The Hill reports:

[House Republican Steve] Buyer [(R-IN)], too, has served his two weeks of required training overseas. �When I was in Kosovo, I carried a general�s bag,� he said, although he corrected himself and said he had not been in Kosovo but in Bosnia, Germany and Hungary.

He said he was disappointed that he did not get the chance to join Operation Iraqi Freedom, and blamed the media, CNN specifically, for publicizing his impending departure. He said that caused the civilian leadership in the Pentagon to reconsider mobilizing him.

A source with close ties to Pentagon officials said Abell, Rumsfeld�s aide, vetoed Buyer�s prospective deployment because he viewed the congressman�s willingness to serve as �purely for political reasons,� such as burnishing his image so he can run for the Senate in the event Indiana�s senior Republican senator, Richard Lugar, decides to retire.

Kosovo. Yeah, that's the ticket. And I liberated the concentration camps with Ronnie Reagan too.

A Republican lying about his military service. Now that's leadership material. Set your sights higher, Steve-o.

(p.s. - I know his name doesn't actually rhyme with "liar.")