Looks like John Kerry has competition.
Evidently all you have to do to become popular among the great unwashed masses of the anti-war/Bush/America crowd is to say the things they want to hear and all of a sudden you are a darling and a celebrity.
Until people who know the military and have been to Iraq expose you as a fraud and a liar.
I hereby personally challenge Mr. MacBeth to prove his participation in the actions he claims.
Let us see your SRB. Let us hear from others who participated in the atrocities you are claiming. Let us know the names of your commanders. Let us see your Ranger school graduation certificate. Let us see pictures of you in uniform with your Ranger tab with others who attended the course with you.
In other words, PROVE IT.
UPDATE: A forum post at ArmyRangers.com asks the question if anyone knows Jess(i)e MacBeth.
More via Mudville Gazette:
Lots of "progressives" will probably be excited today about a new "interview" with an alleged former "Ranger", "Jessie MacBeth", being hyped by the Centre for Research on Globalization. The alleged Ranger accuses American soldiers of all sorts of war crimes. Luckily, the makers of the film didn't know enough about how military uniforms really work, so real soldiers are pointing out the discrepancies to show it's unlikely that this person was really who he claims to be. Examples of the discrepancies noted in the site's comments are in the extended entry.
1. Special Forces Combat Patch (Wrong)
2. Two "Tabs" sewn above SF patch (Wrong- Only One)
3. No Ranger Tab
4. No Airborne Wings
5. No Unit Crest
6. No Sewn on Rank
7. No One in the Army rolls their sleeves like that.
Bonus: 8. Mustache is out of regulation by extending past the corner of the mouth.
More from LGF:
UPDATE at 5/22/06 8:10:26 am:
Allahpundit’s on this too: Anti-war video bogus?
Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive says it’s a laughable fake: Anti-war poseur fronted out at Hot Air.
UPDATE at 5/22/06 10:33:33 am:
More at Milblogs: Impersonating A Ranger To Spread Lies.
Greyhawk: Re: Impersonating A Ranger.
Lt. Smash: Winter Soldiers, Revisited.
Protein Wisdom: Ends, means, and the anti-war left.
UPDATE at 5/22/06 10:56:58 am:
A reader emails:
I am a former Ranger and my son is currently w/ 3d Ranger Bn. This guy is the most obvious fake I have ever seen. He should hope he never meets a Ranger in person after this traitorous performance.
In addition to the other indicators of phoniness, consider these:
* He has a profile page at military.com. On it he claims to have three combat parachute jumps (stars on his jump wings. Sorry, Jessie, but no one in 3d Bn made three combat jumps in 2001-05.
* He claims to be Special Forces qualified. (Claiming to be a “Special Forces Ranger” is almost a sure way to spot a phony. But, if he was SF and Ranger qualified, he would not be an E-4, unless he was busted. Although he claims to have an SF scroll, he does not list SF as his unit.
* He claims to have two CIBs. He would not have been awarded two CIBs for service between 2001 and 2005.
* He claims to have been w/ the Rangers in Fallaujah. To my knowledge, 3d Ranger Bn. was not in Fallaujah.
* He claims to have been shot, wounded w/ shrapnel and stabbed (multiple times), but only claims one Purple Heart.
* He claims to have been w/ the Rangers in Iraq for 16 months. Some reporter should ask him which company he was with and how long their tours were. The Rangers don’t go for one year tours like other Army units. And, public reports show that some of 3d Bn’s time has been in Afghanistan, not Iraq.
Sadly, for the anti-war nuts who have been duped by this fraud, the list of evidence against MacBeth grows longer
UPDATE: Allahpundit has a new post.
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