Joshua Key: Another “hero” fraud exposed

Joshua Key, ass clown and hero fraud

Joshua Key has a book out. He joined the Army in 2002 and was sent to Iraq. He is also a deserter in a time of war.

He ran off to Canada. He is a big star among the useful idiots out there. He claims in his book to have witnessed numerous war crimes in Iraq.

Trouble is, once you look at his claims, you get the feeling that he is full of fecal matter.

There are two excellent posts out there that question and dismantle Key’s stories. The first you need to see is at ROK Drop, entitled “Useful Idiot: Joshua Key“:

Let’s start from the beginning with this guy. He says that when he enlisted in the Army he was lied to and told that he could not be deployed and would stay at a stateside location by his recruiter. Notice this guy enlisted after 9/11, who the hell enlists in the Army much less after 9/11 thinking they have no chance of being deployed? Either an idiot or liar. He then goes on to say that most soldiers in the military that enlisted were also told they would not have to deploy as well. He says recruiters were telling potential recruits they would not deploy as a way to get them to enlist. He then drops this whopper that 99% of the military enlisted because they were poor and had no other options. Where did he get that stat from? John Kerry?

Key than went on to say that US Army recruiters are going AWOL because they are under so much pressure to meet recruiting goals. I searched the Internet and could not find one case of any recruiters going AWOL. I figured if a recruiter went AWOL the lefty sites would have that story front and center, but I could not find one. It just seems that if someone is going to throw an allegation like this out there, they would back it up with names at the least. So Mr. Key if you end up reading this, what recruiters went AWOL? I would really like to know.

He also makes claims that soldiers are trained to be bigots in basic training. The drill sergeants trained him that all Muslims were terrorists and needed to be killed.

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Our man Mr. Key’s tall tales only get taller once he gets into Iraq. His unit, the 43 Combat Engineer Company, which as I said earlier was part of the 3rd ACR was assigned to Ramadi. It is here he says he saw regular war crimes committed. Here is a video interview with Key explaining one of the war crimes he saw committed. He claims he saw soldiers kill a group of civilians than behead them and play soccer with the heads and then proceed to run them over with their vehicles. Yes, I know to reasonable people this sounds absolutely ridiculous, however to lefties they believe this is regularly going on and Key is just confirming it to them.

…the other great post is located at This Ain’t Hell, entitled “The Fables of Deserter Joshua Key: Why Milblogs are Needed“:

Part I of this post will cover some absolute absurd crap in this book, and errors that no one in the military would ever make unless they were such a shitbag that they really didn’t even know what they were doing. For instance, would a real troop refer to a “gunny sergeant” in the army, or to a “M-16 Grenade Launcher” instead of a M203? Nah, I don’t think so. Some of the quotes are just hilarious. Like the dude allegedly trying to commit suicide by shooting himself in the leg with the grenade launcher. What dipshit doesn’t know that 40mm rounds have an arming distance? And, how about a hospital where needles and fetuses are scattered on the floor? And some Hollywood type pyrotechnics stuff that I believe he saw on Die Hard II.

Part II of this post will detail the lavish tongue bath that this piece of work received from the media, and such literary luminaries as Daily Kos. A future post will go more in depth on the book itself, but anyone with a modicum of military training or common sense would see how much fertilizer this dude is spreading. As I see it, the job of milbloggers is to set these stories right.

Milbloggers in the past have exposed frauds like Jim Massey, Jesse MacBeth, and Scott Beauchamp among others who continue to malign the integrity, honor, service, and sacrifices of our military members.

It is a shock to think that these ass clowns believe their myths and fables will not be exposed.

However, it is not a shock for the useful idiots in this country to cling to these stories as some kind of proof of American war crimes. In order to be a useful idiot, you have to be willing to accept things without objective examination nor healthy skepticism. And that is exactly what is happening.