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Deception, Past and Present Phony Soldiers
By Mary Mostert (10/03/07)
On September 28th Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid wrote a letter to the CEO of Clear Channel Communications, Inc.(1) , in an effort to get Rush Limbaugh off the air by falsely stating that "Rush Limbaugh's recent characterization of troops who oppose the war as 'phony soldiers' is an outrage."
On October 1, Senator Tom Harkin on the floor of the senate, said, "The very
thought of Rush Limbaugh sitting in his air-conditioned broadcast studio and
ranting about 'phony soldiers' in Iraq who dare to speak their mind is just
shameful. Perhaps in Mr. Limbaugh's case the correct word is `shameless.'''
Rush Limbaugh did mention "phony soldiers." But why would that be an
"outrage" or "shameful?" Phony soldiers do exist. And, in fact, many
"anti-war activists" who have been given considerable publicity by claiming
to be soldiers who witnessed atrocities were never actually soldiers and
were never ON the battlefield. . Others were at some point soldiers, but
never were where they claimed to be nor could they have seen what they
claimed to have seen.
During Rush Limbaugh's broadcast that Sen. Reid referred to, he was talking
about a man named Jesse MacBeth, who WAS a phony soldier and who had just
been the subject of an ABC broadcast on September 21st which
stated, in part that "Jesse Adam Macbeth, 23, pleaded guilty to charges he
faked his war record."
In other words, Macbeth pleaded guilty of BEING a "phony soldier" when he
pleaded guilty, just a week ago! He claimed to be a U.S. Army Ranger in Iraq
who killed men and women as they left a Baghdad mosque and had receiving the
Purple Heart for injuries he falsely claimed he suffered in combat.
His deceptive interview was translated into Arabic and distributed
throughout the Middle East where it was read by millions, and created
hostility towards US Servicemen both in Iraq and at home.
In May of 2007 ABC ran another story about
another "phony war hero" named David McClanahan, of Fort Worth, Texas, who
claimed he had been wounded in combat three times in Iraq, awarded three
Silver Stars and even nominated for the Congressional Medal of Honor. It was
all lies. Douglas Carver, a special agent in charge of the Veterans
Administration Inspector General operation, noted in the McClanahan case:
"The phony war hero phenomenon plagues the American landscape and tarnishes
the service of thousands of veterans who have served honorable. "
In fact, "phony soldiers" have been such a serious problem that last year
the US Congress passed a bill called "Stolen Valor " which was introduced by
Rep. John Salazar's (Democrat-Colorado) making it a felony to BE a phony
soldier. During the Congressional debate on the Stolen Valor bill, Rep.
Salazar said: "In addition to diminishing the meaning, on several
occasions phonies have used their stature as a decorated war hero to gain
credibility that allows them to commit more serious frauds.
"B.G. Burkett's award winning book, `Stolen Valor' , first exposed the
problems of these medals fraud. The authors show that killers have fooled
the most astute prosecutors and gotten away with murder. They show phony
heroes who have become the object of national award-winning documentaries on
national network television. They show liars and fabricators who have
flooded major publishing houses with false tales of heroism which have
become best-selling biographies."
President Bush signed the Stolen Valor bill into law in December of 2006 and
a number of arrests have taken place as a result. Now we have Democrat
leaders in Congress telling us that ENFORCING a law introduced by a Democrat
and which they voted for is "shameful" or "an outrage?"
Other "phony soldiers" have been caught officiating at the weddings and
funerals of Marines, participating in opening ceremonies for a State Senate,
getting treatment from VA hospitals and being quoted in testimony given by
John Kerry 36 years ago to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Kerry stated in that testimony that he was "representing all those veterans"
as a member of an organization called Vietnam Veterans Against the War
(VVAW) who had told him "their experiences" some months before in a Detroit
meeting: "We had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged and
many very highly decorated veterans testified to war crimes committed in
Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day
basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command....
"They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut
off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned
up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians,
razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs
for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of
South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and
very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this
country."
Who, exactly WERE those "honorably discharged and highly decorated veterans"
who claimed they had committed those crimes? It has taken years and some
research into actual military records, but we now know that in the course of
trying to raise money for a Texas Vietnam Veterans Memorial, B.G. Burkett,
author of Stolen Valor - How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of Its Heroes
and History, MOST of those "soldiers" John Kerry claims told those stories
were phony soldiers!
Burkett did something that any reporter could have done: he used the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) to check the actual records of the "image makers"
used by reporters to flesh out their stories. What he found was astounding.
More often than not, the showcase "veteran" who cried on camera about his
dead buddies, about committing or witnessing atrocities, or about some
heroic action in combat that led him to the current dead end in his life,
was an impostor - in other words - a "phony soldier."
Indeed, Burkett discovered that 1,700 individuals, including some of the
most prominent examples of the Vietnam veteran as dysfunctional loser, had
fabricated their war stories. Many had never even been in the service.
Others, had been the services, but had never been in Vietnam.
Burkett's book, Stolen Valor, which was published in 1998, made it clear why
and how John Kerry's testimony in 1971 slandered an entire generation of
soldiers. Now, the Stolen Valor law is allowing honest people to actually DO
something about phony soldiers who tell lies about real soldiers and real
heroes. Only, now honest people who do something about phony soldiers are
being attacked!"
It appears that Rush Limbaugh or any other talk show host or reporter
looking for the facts about the phonies will be attacked. Obviously, the
truth about phony soldiers could change the way people vote in 2008.
What we are dealing with here is massive deception that has been going on
and has been very successful in confusing a lot of people for many years.
And, of course, other people in the anti-war movement, politics and the
media now have a vested interest in keeping that deception going in order to
preserve their reputations - and their incomes.
1) Letter
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Mary was involved in politics before she was old enough to vote and was writing articles for national magazines at the age of nineteen. She organized one of the first interracial youth groups in Memphis, Tennessee in the 1940s as a teenager, and was involved nationally and internationally in the civil rights movement and the peace movement.
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