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As long as you claim to be anti-war no one will check.
1 posted on 04/09/2006 7:49:26 AM PDT by managusta
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To: managusta

Exactly.


2 posted on 04/09/2006 7:51:28 AM PDT by hershey
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To: managusta
If the "Stolen Valour Act" passes from Congress into law

If? This is a good law. Pass it NOW.

3 posted on 04/09/2006 7:54:42 AM PDT by Drango (A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.)
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To: managusta

Here is a good read on this subject:

http://www.stolenvalor.com/


4 posted on 04/09/2006 7:57:14 AM PDT by Redleg1963
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To: managusta

I bet she about crapped herself when the FBI came calling. I am glad she got found out.


6 posted on 04/09/2006 7:59:43 AM PDT by lawgirl (She comes on like thunder and she's more right than rain)
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To: managusta

Oh come on, 6 posts and no mention of Kerry yet?


7 posted on 04/09/2006 8:01:20 AM PDT by Sofa King (A wise man uses compromise as an alternative to defeat. A fool uses it as an alternative to victory.)
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To: managusta
More military frauds:
• Andrew Isbell: During his August 2004 trial for drug possession in Rockport, Texas, Sergeant Andrew Isbell wore his Army uniform with two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. After testifying that he was home on medical leave after being wounded on patrol in Baghdad, Isbell was acquitted. Tipped by an observer who questioned the way his medals were arranged, investigators discovered Isbell was a private who served as a cook. He never saw combat and had been discharged after going AWOL. (Isbell was charged with aggravated perjury.)

• Justin McCauley: From Rosemont, California, McCauley told the Sacramento Bee he was a Navy SEAL wounded in Afghanistan in 2002. The Bee later retracted the story. McCauley was actually an aviation ordnance man who served on an aircraft carrier.

• Lisa Jane Phillips: Officials at Meredith College in North Carolina waived $42,178 in tuition for Captain Phillips after she returned from serving as an Air Force pilot in Iraq and Afghanistan. In January 2005, Phillips wore her uniform--adorned with a Bronze Star and Purple Heart--to class and told elaborate stories of her heroism. The campus police chief, a Vietnam veteran, got suspicious because one of the medals on Phillips' uniform was from WWII. He called in federal investigators, who charged Phillips with impersonating an officer and a dozen other federal crimes. She had never served in the military.

• Sarah Kenney: A woman in Grand Junction, Colorado, called a radio station in August 2004 using the name Amber Kenney, saying she was a National Guard soldier leaving for basic training and that her husband Jonathan was already fighting in Iraq. Kenney called in frequently with many details about their lives. In February 2005, Kenney contacted the media to say that her husband had been killed leaping in front of a bullet to save an Iraqi child. After an organization called Hometown Heroes sent a fax confirming the death, news outlets ran the story. But an investigation by a local newspaper revealed that Kenney's name was Sarah, not Amber. She'd never served in the National Guard, nor had her husband Michael, who was alive and managing a fast-food restaurant. Confronted, Kenney said, "I feel like an ass." She pleaded guilty to criminal impersonation and received probation.

• James D. Johnson: For years, North Carolina resident Johnson, now 49, told of his exploits as a Navy SEAL. After 9/11, Johnson told one woman who'd known him for 26 years that he'd been called to active duty in Iraq and asked her to marry him when he returned from combat. According to The Charlotte Observer, Johnson paid her a surprise visit in 2003 wearing camouflage and dusty combat boots, saying he was on leave from Iraq. Then the girlfriend discovered Johnson was romancing other women with his tales of derring-do. The newspaper found that Johnson was an insurance adjuster who had served in the Navy during the '70s as a petty officer; he'd never been a SEAL.

• John F. Kerry...

Some wannabes use their status as veterans to garner sympathy, to get ahead in their careers or to manipulate their loved ones. Other phonies go to extremes such as forging documents to lay claim to combat decorations and veterans' benefits they haven't earned.

The Observer found that Phil Haberman's military claims are just one facet of a life lived in fantasy and deception.


8 posted on 04/09/2006 8:05:11 AM PDT by Bon mots
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To: managusta

I hate to tell you but this is really and old, old story. There were several post about it.


9 posted on 04/09/2006 8:06:07 AM PDT by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: managusta
...nor is the temptation to fake it.

I know a guy who's wife has been faking it ever since they got married.

10 posted on 04/09/2006 8:07:53 AM PDT by Dan(9698)
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Walter K. Carlson

Dips*** didn't even bother to get a haircut and trim his stache.

12 posted on 04/09/2006 8:18:24 AM PDT by A.A. Cunningham
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They should make these people enlist.


13 posted on 04/09/2006 8:21:49 AM PDT by eyespysomething (American liberals like everything about the struggle for freedom except the struggle.)
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To: managusta

I really hate fonies


14 posted on 04/09/2006 8:23:57 AM PDT by AirForce-TechSgt (RR's quote is to long to use as a tagline.)
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To: managusta
Image hosted by Photobucket.com burn the witch...!!!
15 posted on 04/09/2006 8:25:04 AM PDT by Chode (1967 UN Outer Space Treaty is bad for America and bad for humanity - DUMP IT. American Hedonist ©®)
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To: managusta
He jumped at the opportunity. "That was the final straw," said Agent Cottone. "In my experience people in combat don't want to talk about it. Most imposters want to talk about it. It's like an addiction, like heroin to a junkie."

"Shame on those who claim credit for acts of courage they did not commit," said Congressman John Salazar of Colorado, when introducing the bill. "Their lies are criminal. By letting the phonies continue their masquerade, we diminish the honour of our true heroes."


17 posted on 04/09/2006 9:23:45 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("fake but accurate": NY Times)
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18 posted on 04/09/2006 9:30:03 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("fake but accurate": NY Times)
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It was Frank Strickland, Meredith's on-campus police chief, who, after almost three years of watching her soak up the acclaim, began to smell a rat

i. e. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck....it's probably a duck

..

19 posted on 04/09/2006 9:47:01 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("fake but accurate": NY Times)
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When Mr Strickland noticed that one of the many medals on Phillips's chest was awarded to those who had seen action in the Second World War, suspicion tipped into incredulity....

Not only that, she didn't know who won the World Series in 1944 and didn't know the words to "The Boogey Woogey Bugleboy of Company B".


21 posted on 04/09/2006 10:00:36 AM PDT by Polybius
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To: managusta

If she wants to see combat action so badly, she should be shipped out on the next transport. Then she can see what the real heroes are doing.


This woman makes me sick.


22 posted on 04/09/2006 10:51:27 AM PDT by CarolinaGuitarman ("There is grandeur in this view of life....")
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Good report, aside from the author's ignorance that the word "Marine" should be capitalized. It is nice to know that the FBI is tracking down and prosecuting these scumbags.

As a veteran of Vietnam, he found Phillips's stories of flying weekend sorties to Iraq - out to the Middle East after class on Thursday, back in time for tutorials on Monday - were a little far-fetched.

"A little far-fetched"??? LMAO!!

24 posted on 04/09/2006 11:27:07 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: managusta

By the way, wasn't it Senator Tom Harkin (D - Iowa) who claimed to a Vietnam combat veteran but who in fact never left Japan? The FBI should arrest that fraud.


25 posted on 04/09/2006 11:35:45 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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As long as you claim to be anti-war no one will check.

I recall on FreeRepublic one of many threads detailing the anti-war protesting and counter protesting that was going on in Crawford, Texas (thanks to Cindy Sheehan). One Freeper said that he/she saw on the Anti-War side a woman pushing a stroller with her child in the stroller. Attached to the stroller was a sign on which the woman claimed that her husband was a Navy Pilot (or some other kind of pilot, my memory may be hazy) who was killed in Afghanistan. The Freeper later on did a search of all our servicemen who were killed in Afghanistan so far. There was no Navy Pilot listed.

(Sorry, I've doen a search, but I have as of yet to find that thread again)

28 posted on 04/09/2006 2:21:56 PM PDT by lowbridge (I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming, like his passengers.)
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