AP Uses Fake SEAL to Back Kerry, Slam Bush

AP, Multiple ^ | September 12, 2004 | Travis McGee

[Travis McGee]

AP Uses Fake SEAL to Back Kerry, Slam Bush

Authentic or not, Bush memos no big deal to retired guardsmen

U.S. Servicemen React to Bush Guard Memos (spreading the lie)

Allegations of suspect conduct during the Vietnam war also have been leveled at John Kerry, who won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star in Vietnam.

A group sponsoring television ads challenging his wartime record contends Kerry's own gunfire caused the wound that brought his first Purple Heart. Navy records and other veterans do not support the charge.

Ahmad Majied of Albany (GA) says the latest allegations about Bush's military record are more troubling to him than allegations about service honors leveled at Democratic challenger Kerry.

Majied, a Democrat from Albany who served 30 years in the Navy, including five years as a SEAL in Vietnam, said the memos support his belief that Bush was a "playboy" during his service years.

"He had enough money to get what he wanted," Majied said. "I think his main concern was not to go to Southeast Asia. I bet he never dreamed it would come back to haunt him."

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So Criminal Number 18F checked him out. Here's the reply from "authentiseal."

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Official Reply

NOT A SEAL

Thanks for checking with us - we greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. If the name you provided was "spelled accurately", we do NOT have a listing for anyone named "Majied" in our entire database of slightly more than 10,000 names. Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a full legal name change since his claimed service with the SEAL Teams, I can state conclusively that the man NEVER completed SEAL training, and thus he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL. While there are other training steps that must be completed on the path to becoming a SEAL, BUD/S training is the first and most vital, and that training course is totally unclassified. Without having first completed BUD/S training, a man cannot go on to become a SEAL. There are definitely secret SEAL missions, but despite anything the man might have said, there are NO secret SEALs. If you choose to confront the man regarding his fraudulent SEAL claims, please show him this email message and invite him to contact me - a real SEAL - directly by email with information that will support his claims. I'd enjoy hearing his stories first hand, but I've extended this offer to literally thousands of individuals over the last three years, and in all that time I've received only a scant handful of replies, so I don't really expect to hear from him either.

Again, please visit our web page www.authentiseal.org/realitycheck.htm for some very specific information related to the realities of SEAL training, SEAL duties, and the claims most often made by SEAL imposters.

Thank you again for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams.

Respectfully, Gregory Platt

UDT/SEAL 1970-1974

SEAL Authentication Team - Investigator

"The only service where all investigators are US Navy SEALs"

[RedBloodedAmerican]

You need to check this out.

[LeanWrite]

Elliott Minor, the AP reporter who wrote the story, emailed me today to say that the story will be corrected:

See:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BUSH_GUARD_REAX_CORRECTIVE?SITE=GAAUG&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Sep 17, 6:03 PM EDT

Correction: Bush-Guard-Reax Story

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) -- In a Sept. 11 story about military retirees' reaction to new documents concerning President Bush's National Guard service, The Associated Press incorrectly identified Ahmad Majied of Albany as a former Navy SEAL. Majied assisted SEAL teams while he was in the Navy, but never was trained as a SEAL. "I should have been more specific," he said Friday.


- John S
Leanwrite.com

[CyberCowboy777]

I love it!

[DameAutour]

Okay, and that's great and all, but I'm still bothered by the way the AP reporter (Minor?) handled this.

When faced with questions, he essentially said he believed Mr. Majied because of the way he sounded, and had no intention of verifying the story further. What kind of journalism is this? And now that the reporter has been proven to have been completely wrong in not double-checking his story in the face of questions...this little correction is all they offer?

This reporter should receive some more emails about his lack of journalistic skills.

[GoldHorde]

If the AP wants to use a SEAL as a reference for being Anti-Bush why aren't they using Jesse Ventura? Latest news on the Anti-Bush/Navy Seal Jesse Ventura is that he is now also Anti-Kerry!
http://www.kaaltv.com/article/view/81342/

[terilyn]

Found her! This is a moveon.org effort.

She is not listed on the CRD System.

"I've been a lifelong Republican since I was old enough to vote and I though that Bush would be fiscally conservative. I feel betrayed. I don't believe that a government should be engaging in reckless spending, recklessly stretching the military to the point of breaking, and recklessly trying to alter the constitution that this country is built upon. That's why I'm voting for John Kerry."
-- Kim Mecklenburg, Financial Consultant; Sergeant, USMC, Veteran

http://www.ssinc.com/kier/ntdo/BulletinBoard/MailingDocs/20040827_RepublicansForKerry.htm

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Other advisors are becoming involved in businesses that connect with their day jobs. Five years ago, Kim Mecklenburg, a broker with Mecklenburg & Assoc. in Los Angeles, started doing research on common attributes of successful reps. A former soldier who specialized in nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in the U.S. Marine Corps, Mecklenburg felt she knew something about the “can do” spirit herself, so a year ago she started a company through which she conducts workshops and seminars for brokers.

“I like brokers better than most other human beings,” she says. And she saw that the time was right to help her fellow brokers — and help herself in the process. “In a bull market, who needs me?”

http://registeredrep.com/mag/finance_day_job_not/

https://lara.safe-order.net/mecklenburgandassociates/OrderForm.html

So we have a woman claiming to be a financial consultant who quit that business a year ago to put on seminars and workshops for financial advisors.

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

This is dynamite of true.

You said you can't find her on the CRD system. If this is her name and if she is a real broker then she would be on the CRD system. I will do a check myself.

Before we get too excited, let do what RATher should have done--check then double check our sources and facts.

How did you get her name?

[terilyn]

I found it by accident. I was reading this thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226343/posts

And started looking for "Republicans for Kerry" comments on the web. This message board posting came up and her name was listed. I found the moveon site and there she was again. So I googled her name and found her current company listed.

I went to the NASD site and checked her name and found nothing under her name, her current company name or her former company name.

Thanks for double checking!

[Dont_Tread_On_Me_888]

I just saw her name at moveon.org

So, she is NOT an active broker. She is not NASD registered.

She filed a U-5 and is out of the business, yet she is on a John Kerry ad talking in the present tense about being a broker and putting her clients on the line--in the present tense.

Let's dig further into this and see if we can't expose another Kerry lie.

[terilyn]

There are a few other names on that post I first sent you. and some more on the Washington Times article I linked here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1226343/posts?page=44#44

I started looking earlier and got busy. I'll do some more looking later.

You're right. If we could find some more liars this whole moveon campaign could crumble.

[Travis McGee]

Here it is, links and all. I forget what number reply the guy was "busted," but it's in the middle I believe.

[CyberAnt]

Thanks Travis - I'll read it tomorrow - Bronchitus meds are calling.