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Another Fake Soldier Tale Debunked
Realclearpolitics ^ | 5/24/06 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 05/24/2006 9:14:55 AM PDT by listenhillary

Meet "Jessie MacBeth." He's the latest cause celebre of the anti-war Left -- a "former Army Ranger and Iraq war veteran" who accuses his fellow troops of committing a litany of atrocities against innocent civilians. Anti-Vietnam War veteran John Kerry and the Winter Soldiers cast a long shadow.

In his 20-minute Internet video interview at peacefilms.org, which promises that watching the video "will change your life," MacBeth (who also claims to have served in Special Forces) says:

--Superiors told him "our job over there is to strike fear in the hearts of the Iraqis . . . to be brutal and to not feel" and that "the Geneva Convention doesn't mean crap."

-- He would "do night raids, pull people out, on their knees and zip-tied," and if a man didn't answer the way he wanted him to, he "would shoot his youngest kid and keep going."

-- "By my hand alone . . . almost 200 people were taken out by me.

(Excerpt) Read more at realclearpolitics.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: agitprop; antiamericanism; bullzogby; cultureofcorruption; falsewitness; fraud; jessemacbeth; jessiemacbeth; lyingliars; makkingitup; myspace; phonysoldier; powerghraib; treason; usefulidiot; waronerror; wintersoldier2; wintersoldierii; zogbyism
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To: listenhillary
This Idiot Macbeth had better sleep lightly and grow eyes in the back of his head. You don't go smearing the rep of the Air-Borne with out reprocousinons. Same goes for Spec. Ops. Those guys have a sense of honor.
61 posted on 05/24/2006 10:33:57 AM PDT by SouthernBoyupNorth ("For my wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel..........")
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To: listenhillary


Jessie MacBeth


From ... here.




62 posted on 05/24/2006 10:35:29 AM PDT by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of outthinking our adversaries?)
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To: listenhillary; All
Iowahawk sends up our barehanded killer.
63 posted on 05/24/2006 10:35:45 AM PDT by dighton
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To: Master of Orion
Here's his MYspace.com page.

Not any more!!

Becki

64 posted on 05/24/2006 10:35:53 AM PDT by Becki (Superman wears Jack Bauer pajamas.)
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To: N. Theknow
Jesse Macbeth
65 posted on 05/24/2006 10:42:12 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: listenhillary

Meeting of the no-minds here:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article13140.htm


66 posted on 05/24/2006 10:43:59 AM PDT by rightgrafix (I saw an elephant eat it's own head...)
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Kudo's to http://hotair.com/archives/top-picks/2006/05/22/anti-war-video-bogus/

Hotair.com may have been the source that busted Jesse.


Jesse McBeth video SOME of it archived here. Malkin's commentary

http://www.youtube.com/results?search=jessie+macbeth&search_type=search_videos&search=Search

Bit torrent of original video http://www.mininova.org/tor/317868


67 posted on 05/24/2006 10:59:41 AM PDT by listenhillary (The original Contract with America - The U.S. Constitution)
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To: Timesink; martin_fierro; reformed_democrat; Loyalist; =Intervention=; PianoMan; GOPJ; ...
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans

act of treason PING

On the Military.com website, to which anyone can contribute, a profile of MacBeth claimed he had three basic combat jumps, service in Afghanistan as well as Iraq, and several awards including a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.

There's just one problem: According to Department of the Army spokesman Paul Boyce, there is no record of "Jessie MacBeth," a.k.a. Jesse Adam MacBeth, having served in either the Rangers or the Special Forces -- or in any part of the Army at all. Boyce told me Tuesday that a check on MacBeth's credentials came up empty. "At a minimum, this appears to have been concocted" and "some sort of hoax," Boyce said. Special Operations Command and the State Department have been alerted.

MacBeth's story started to crumble after my colleagues at the Hot Air blog (www.hotair.com) called attention to the Peace Films video interview and asked military bloggers about MacBeth's appearance and claims. Harnessing the specialized knowledge of the blogosphere, military bloggers debunked a photo purportedly showing MacBeth in his official uniform (with his beret backward, incorrect flashes and tabs, and missing wings).


68 posted on 05/24/2006 11:03:00 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: fhlh

(A) it is treason

and

(B) I hope (although it is unlikely) that the public realizes that what John Kerry did during the Vietnam war is also treason (and he HAS admitted that his words were 'exagerations').


69 posted on 05/24/2006 11:05:20 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: fhlh
The ACLU doesn't believe in free speech at the ACLU...

A.C.L.U. May Block Criticism by Its Board

70 posted on 05/24/2006 11:08:23 AM PDT by weegee (Slowly but surely and deliberately, converativism is being made a thoughtcrime.)
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To: frogjerk

"DU should be reality-based."

BWAAAAAHAAAAAAAHAAAAAAA!!!!


71 posted on 05/24/2006 11:09:12 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: G.Mason

AIDS? Transvestite from SF? Bath House Soap Boy? Pus dripping from Ear?? Fake Eyebrow Boy????? Men's room attendant?????


72 posted on 05/24/2006 11:12:53 AM PDT by Doc Savage (Bueller?....Bueller?...Bueller?...Bueller?...Pelosi?...Pelosi?...Pelosi?...)
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To: listenhillary

If somebody has a complete version of MacBeth's video, I'll post it on WinterSoldier.com so that this propagandist's lies remain available...


73 posted on 05/24/2006 11:14:48 AM PDT by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Publius6961
This type of lie is intended to feed those like the guy in Seattle with a huge sign on his house that reads, "100,000 innocent Iraqis dead. Do you feel safer?"

Utterly bull. The 100K innocent has been debunked so many times you have to live with your head zipped up in a garment bag not to have heard it.

But if you repeat a lie often enough...
74 posted on 05/24/2006 11:20:12 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe
"This type of lie is intended to feed those like the guy in Seattle with a huge sign on his house that reads, "100,000 innocent Iraqis dead. Do you feel safer?" Utterly bull. The 100K innocent has been debunked so many times you have to live with your head zipped up in a garment bag not to have heard it. But if you repeat a lie often enough..."


75 posted on 05/24/2006 11:29:37 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (No program, no ideas, no clue: The democrats!)
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To: I'm ALL Right!
Sure, he'll get his....right after John Kerry does.

I'm in favor of some REAL punishment for him...put him in a locked room with John Kerry for 3 weeks. He'll be crying and pleading for release in a matter of hours after being subjected non-stop Kerry. Now of course torture by Kerry is against the Geneva convention, but as he said, it don't mean "crap".

76 posted on 05/24/2006 11:52:31 AM PDT by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: Doc Savage
"AIDS? Transvestite from SF? Bath House Soap Boy? Pus dripping from Ear?? Fake Eyebrow Boy????? Men's room attendant?????"


That guy could be all of the above. Kind of dispels that old adage about a book and it's cover.




77 posted on 05/24/2006 12:32:04 PM PDT by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of outthinking our adversaries?)
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To: Interesting Times
I am presently downloading it from ...http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5587990522549547050&pr=goog-sl


So far it has downloaded 4.7MB.

I will advise if it completes and is good.




78 posted on 05/24/2006 1:35:48 PM PDT by G.Mason (And what is intelligence if not the craft of outthinking our adversaries?)
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To: Publius6961
Fakers should realize by now that it is impossible to get away with this crap in the Internet age. Especially when The Pajama Patrol of Free Republic and other conservative sites are always on the lookout for fakes and phonies.

Just ask Dan Rather about that.
79 posted on 05/24/2006 2:52:08 PM PDT by Ronin (Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
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To: frogjerk

80 posted on 05/24/2006 3:50:36 PM PDT by pabianice
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