I wonder if this one will make it to the blogs...?

[Christine]

Remember the supposed American war veteran who claimed to have been awarded a Purple Heart for committing atrocities in Fallujah? His stories were posted all over anti-war and "alternative news" sites. People around the world swallowed his story hook, line and sinker. Now it turns out that he was never even in Iraq. He was a homeless man who had made up the story, using fake documents to collect over $10,400 in veteran benefits from the government. I wonder if all those blogs and "news" sites will bother to mention that they were duped?


Here's the real story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274097,00.html

[odysseus]

What a terrible news!!! How low can man go?
Allow me, Christine, to copy and paste the first lines of the article...

SEATTLE — A man who tried to position himself as a leader of the anti-war movement by claiming to have participated in war crimes while serving in Iraq is facing federal charges of falsifying his record.

Jesse Adam Macbeth, 23, formerly of Phoenix, garnered attention on blogs and in some alternative media after he began claiming in 2005 to have been awarded a Purple Heart for his service, which he said included slaughtering innocents in a Fallujah mosque. His story was contradicted by his discharge form, showing that he was kicked out of the Army after six weeks at Fort Benning, Ga., in 2003 because of his “entry level performance and conduct.”

A complaint unsealed Friday in U.S. District Court in Seattle charged him with one count of using or possessing a forged or altered military discharge certificate, and one count of making false statements in seeking benefits from the Veterans Administration.

Macbeth’s public defender, Jay Stansell, declined to comment.

Organizations that opposed the war, including Iraq Veterans Against the War, posted videos or statements containing Macbeth’s claims on their Web sites. In one videotaped interview, a skinny, stuttering Macbeth, dressed in a camouflage jacket, described slaughtering hundreds of people in a mosque: “We would burn their bodies ... hang their bodies from the rafters in the mosque,” he said.
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[Christine]

[titus27]

This is a forum ...
Answer with facts..

[Christine]

This is a forum ...
Answer with facts..

Answer my own question?

[titus27]

Answer my own question?

Question my argument and I answer
We are in a forum...You know the rules

[Christine]

What argument?

[Marcus 22]

We're off to see the Wizard!

Four United States Presidents get caught up in a tornado.....
And off they whirled to the land of OZ.

They finally made it to the Emerald City

....

...and went to find the Great Wizard

"What brings the four of you before the great Wizard of Oz?"

Jimmy Carter stepped forward timidly:
"I've come for some courage."
"No Problem!" said the Wizard, "Who's next?"

Richard Nixon stepped forward, and said:
"Well, I think I need a heart."
"Done! Says the Wizard."

"Who comes next before the Great and Powerful Oz?"

Up stepped Bush and said,
"The American people say that I need a brain."

"No problem! Said the Wizard.
Consider it done."

Then there is a great silence in the hall.
Bill Clinton is just standing there, looking around,
But he doesn't say a word.
Irritated, the Wizard finally asks,

"Well, what do YOUwant?"

"IS DOROTHY HERE?"

[zhanghe]

Remember the supposed American war veteran who claimed to have been awarded a Purple Heart for committing atrocities in Fallujah? His stories were posted all over anti-war and "alternative news" sites. People around the world swallowed his story hook, line and sinker. Now it turns out that he was never even in Iraq. He was a homeless man who had made up the story, using fake documents to collect over $10,400 in veteran benefits from the government. I wonder if all those blogs and "news" sites will bother to mention that they were duped?


Here's the real story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274097,00.html

if i dont rememeber wrong the one who said that in the future everyone one would have 5 minute celebrity was an american artist called Andy Warhol,thats scary and expeccialy in US where serial killer got fame(rememeber Oliver Stone?)and there are every kind of show(i would put also 9eleven)that just belong to business as usual...

[Gerri]

if i dont rememeber wrong the one who said that in the future everyone one would have 5 minute celebrity was an american artist called Andy Warhol,thats scary and expeccialy in US where serial killer got fame(rememeber Oliver Stone?)and there are every kind of show(i would put also 9eleven)that just belong to business as usual...

15 minutes,not 5..