They used to pull this shit all the time during Vietnam and I believed them for a while. Then the light came on.
Back then there was no public way to refute them.
Looking forward to ‘Thomas’’ humilition as a liar.
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Didn’t the New Republic have a writer 10 years ago who made up most of his articles?
OK . Did they just rehire Stephen Glass?!!
LOL, now that would be a story.
Sounds like John Kerry’s post-vietnam testimony before Congress. Most of it sounds made up to me.
If anyone believes this so called soldier exits- I am a rocket scientist,too.
Why would this person with such extensive injuries still be in country?
How convenient for them.
Look at this idiocy: A supposedly child's skull:
"One private, infamous as a joker and troublemaker, found the top part of a human skull, which was almost perfectly preserved. It even had chunks of hair, which were stiff and matted down with dirt. "
The guy takes the child's skull, and it fits perfectly over his own intact adult skull. New Republic will believe anything, so long as it paints our sons and daughters as monsters.
Army Dad, Army Vet, ---and mad.
Scott Thomas = Clifton Hicks??
http://www.iava.org/component/option,com_/Itemid,119/option,content/task,view/id,262/
Some lengthy autobiographical stuff. Certainly has the same point of view and similar prose.
Clifton Hicks has written a LOT of stuff. The more I read, the more it sounds like Scott Thomas:
http://www.alternet.org/asoldierspeaks/40431/
Look at this comment by a Hicks sympathizer and journalist:
Laufer: They all got me. They’re just emotionally wrenching. [But] there’s one guy that I’m particularly fascinated by and find inspirational: Clifton Hicks. Clifton Hicks is a fascinating guy because when he speaks about his experiences, it’s a combination of this harsh military lexicon of crude language and images with a poetic understanding and interpretation of the events that he experienced. He’s from the backwater of the Southeast and he was sending reports home that his father put up on the family blog. He was harshly critical of the war and the command in these blogs, and that got back to his commanders. He was sentenced to hard labor, as I recall, reduced in rank and fined, and applied for conscientious objector status, [which] eventually he did get.
But he tells stories on himself, and that’s one of the things that’s amazing to hear — these guys who are indicting their own actions. He tells these ghastly stories of the things he did or experienced that helped him realize the war is wrong, and two things in particular always stand out in my mind. One is that, due to confusion, and seemingly not malicious confusion, a wedding party was shot up and he was involved in the cleanup after it. A young girl, I think she was six, was killed. There was no report filed, according to him. The U.S. troops just saw that they’d killed her and kept on going because it was not a factor of consequence.
Hearing stories like this puts into context the atrocities that we’re hearing about, not to in any way suggest that the majority of the troops over there or even a consequential number of them engaged in this sort of thing, but it allows one to see how an immoral policy and resorting to violence to solve political problems can lead to individuals doing horrific things that they would never consider. Bad enough that this girl was killed and left, and his compatriots would defecate into the containers for MREs, the meals that are distributed to the troops, and then offer them to hungry Iraqis, because this was a way for them to get back at the Iraq that they learned to hate. And he talks about learning to hate Iraq and learning to hate Iraqis even though it’s contrary to his personal beliefs and upbringing.”
Does this not sound like a review of “Scott Thomas”?
You know it’s a shame that our troops even feel like they have to answer questions about this BS... here goes:
http://www.mudvillegazette.com/milblogs/