Asan Akbar
Posted on 10/04/2007 9:43:03 AM PDT by LS
Edited on 10/04/2007 10:19:20 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In the entire episode of the "Phoney Soldier" comments (in which Rush Limbaugh was dead on, we seem to have forgotten this "phoney," but very dangerous soldier.
Sgt. Asan Akbar in 2003 threw grenades into tents at a 101st Airborne Division command center, killing a fellow serviceman and injuring several others.
What's interesting is if you don't know the guy's name, just try and find him in a google search---it's not immediately obvious.
This traitor killed one of our own men. Wonder if Sen. Reid thinks he qualifies as "phoney?"
Reid and the Democrats are just sticking up for Timothy McVeigh.
Try Sgt. Akbar.
And that misrepresented “Bush’s Fault” war dead list? The men that Sgt. Akbar murdered are on that list.
ROFL! - The irony!
Asan Akbar
Probably because his name is Asan Akbar, not Asan Akbarin.
Gee, I thought this was gonna be a thread about John Kerry.
Hasan Akbar by some accounts.
Asan Akbarin by others.
What’s his Western name?
The name game. And they wonder why there are false positives in the “do not fly” list?
But to clarrify matters. He is not a “phony soldier” just a traitor and fifth columnist.
He did serve. As did Timothy McVeigh, Lee Harvey Oswald, and the soldiers tried for abuses at Abu Ghraib.
I was guessing Dungheap Harkin...
HE was HIMSELF a phony soldier (excerpt from Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation Was Robbed of Its Heroes and Its History by B. G. Burkett and Glenna Whitley)...
During a 1992 bid for the presidency, Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa claimed that he had served as a pilot in Vietnam. His claim had surfaced eight years before, during a 1984 bid for reelection to the Senate, when Harkin boasted that he had served one year in Vietnam flying F-4s and F-8s on combat air patrols and photo-reconnaissance support missions. Challenged by Sen. Barry Goldwater, Harkin did a quick shuffle, claiming that he had actually flown combat sorties over Cuba during the sixties. Harkin finally admitted that he had not seen combat but had served as a ferry pilot stationed in Atsugi, Japan, flying aircraft to be repaired from Atsugi to the Phillipines. When pressed by reporters to explain how much time he had really spent in Vietnam, Harkin estimated that over a year, he flew in and out of Vietnam a dozen or so times. But Harkin’s military record showed no Vietnam service decorations. He finally conceded he had not flown combat air patrols in Vietnam and began describing himself as a Vietnam era vet.
And he called the testimony of the men he served with "Swiftboating". It was okay to defame THOSE soldiers I guess.
Jon Carry is lucky as heck he wasn’t killed when he got fragged..........
I don’t listen to Rush, so I needed some clarification on the subject. He was referring to anti-war protesters who were posing as veterans of the Iraqi war. I’m certain this isn’t a new phenomena, or even specific to the current conflict. I’d bet such behavior dates back to the 60’s.
As I do listen to a lot of talk radio, I have on several occasions heard individuals, who say they are ex-military, call in to shows to criticize or state their opposition to the war, only to have another caller respond later in a different call how the “vet” was completely unfamiliar with military practice, procedures, field of operations and vernacular.
I am projecting out here, but according to the standards of Harry Reid and Wes Clark; members of the American Military, be they traitors, deserters or murderers, would NOT be considered to be “phoney soldiers”.
I don’t begrudge real veterans of the war if they speak out against it. I wouldn’t call them “phoney soldiers”. Though clearly, their opinion is the minority. It’d be nice for TIME or Newsweek or some of the other national publications and media to cover our soldiers who support the war in a positive way.
I wouldn’t hold my breath.
How about the phony Marine, Dan Rather?
All things in Dan’s life are fake but accurate.
Doh. Space after the “Akbar” and “in”
The only 'phony soldier' I respect.
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