Chris G,
I feel your pain, believe me! I had not heard about the Airman being shot on Independence Day; this is something that does not surprise me in the least, considering the slanted view of things displayed by the majority of the press.
This whole “Scott Thomas” situation reminds of something that the XO of the unit I was deployed said to me a couple of years ago. We were talking about the then situation in Iraq, and the conversation got around to a couple of other fake warriors who were circulating contrived stories at that time. I’m paraphrasing here, but basically our XO told me that ‘the enemy won’t defeat us; our own soldiers and wannabe warriors will defeat us with doctored up stories and outright lies. Just like what happened in Vietnam, the leftists will hear, or read, and believe all of it, no matter how far fetched.’ Words from a wise man. He’s getting ready to deploy again; wish I was going with him.

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Civil Warrior,

Thanks for the compliment. I am just so livid about this, other fake “soldiers”, and fabricated stories from the MSM that I just started typing, and typing, and typing.

Stories like the above and the smug elitism of the leftists in response irk me to no end. And as bad as the fantasy hit pieces are, the fact a leftist “anti-war” activist shot an Airman in the chest on July 4th for the “crime” of being in the military angers me more. The ironic part is, with all the anti-gun BS from the left wing, the “activist” used a defaced, untracable pistol (that jammed on the second shot). The MSM has been all but silent on this entire case, which disgusts me, but is no longer surprising.

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Foer says:
“A lot of the questions raised by the conservative blogosphere boil down to, would American soldiers be capable of doing things like the things described in the diarist.”"

NO, Mr. Foer, the questions boil down to WOULD ANYONE be capable of doing what was reported.

Would anyone be capable of swerving a tracked vehicle to kill a dog he couldn’t possibly see.

Would anyone make comments to a wounded women they see daily and loud enough for all the tables around to hear.
Why can’t we find anyone who saw her or heard the remarks?

Would anyone be capable of finding square glock shell casings.

Would anyone change a run-flat tire in knee deep sewage
when they could just drive to high ground.

Something tells me that if someone wrote these comments about actions in the Clinton White House, you would be far more skeptacle of the claims.

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In response to Chris G’s comments above HOOAH! HOOAH, AND HOOAH again! Well written. Had I not been so lazy I might have concocted a similar rant; well done. Once again, to reiterate, as a senior NCO I would have been obligated by honor and duty to take a personal interest in seeing those fictional characters suffer!

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I agree fully with Civil Warrior and others above.

I have 13 years of service enlisted and officer in the US Army and counting. The behavior written about by this “winter soldier” reeks of a leftist propaganda hit piece. It seems the authors of it watched every Hollywierd slam piece movie about the US Military and picked out scenes for this lie.

At NO TIME would a soldier under my command, or the command of ANY other officer or NCO I know behave like this! The actions by this “soldier” are a gross violation of several sections of the UCMJ and ethical standards of the US Armed Forces.

I am a Armored Cavalryman now in Acquisitions. I commanded a Heavy CAV Troop which had M1s and M3s (CAV Bradleys). The M2/M3 Brad is a cumbersome beast with low acceleration and clunky steering. As stated above, the driver has extremely poor visibility on his right side and is dependent on the BC (Bradley Commander) for guidance and the dog would have to be already dead not to know the vehicle was coming. No BC that I know would EVER allow his driver to act like this idiot.

Next we have the mass grave skull (with hair no less). That too has been trashed completely. ANY soldier acting like this would be IMMEDIATELY brought up on charges and, at a minimum, disarmed and removed from duty. I could not allow an unstable person to run amok with a rifle while wearing a skull. The fact that the “shock value” of the skull story is such makes it highly suspect.

As an aside, while in Bosnia, 1998, as a PL, one of my troopers had a mental lapse and wanted to “decorate” his helmet late one night. He tore off the cat eyes and wrote “Thug Life” in the spaces where the cat eyes were with “187″ between them. This was because he went into his “Gangsta Rap” phase and wanted to show his “street cred”. A song by “Offspring” on the “Americana” album reflects my view on this knucklehead. The “decoration” lasted ONE formation (morning role-call/inspection) before the PSG, his Tank Commander, and myself crushed him. As always, Murphy struck. Just as I told the PSG and TC to fix this kid’s head before the “old man” saw it… Guess who walks up behind me? C’mon, 3 guesses. Well, the CO and 1SG then “professionally developed” the PSG and I for GP because Numbnuts had defaced his Kevlar band. It was only because the CO knew the PSG and I were already livid about the PVT’s actions that said PVT2 was not made an E1. That was for a Kevlar bad…. Now wearing a human skull!!!! That PL and PSG, along with the BC, Dismount Squad Leader, and the “E-4 mafia” would have crushed this supposed “soldier’s” reproductive glands. If they had not, the CO, 1SG, CSM, Battalion CDR and everyone around would have gone ballistic! The skull reeks of some sick leftist fantasy where US Troops are sadistic killers and the islamofascists are “civilized, gentle heros”. BS meter is pegged here also.

Then we have the injured female contractor. ANY NCO or Officer who would witness such an event would IMMEDIATLY pull those “soldiers” out of the DFAC and “professionally develop” them R. Lee Ermy style and then make sure these “soldiers” days and nights were full of “fun” things to do (cleaning latrines, cleaning vehicle bilges, camel spider patrols, etc) . At no time would behavior like this be tolerated, EVER! The woman, if she existed, would have also filed complaints with all levels of command and real Soldiers (notice the large “S”), NCOs, Officers, and other contractors would have also done so. Again, this seems to be another leftist fantasy.

Yes, I can remember an aside on this where one of my Soldiers was singing a song by “prodigy” called “Smack My Bitch Up” in the DFAC, quietly and I grabbed him and “counseled” him on his actions. I had to almost tackle him and drag him out of the DFAC at Slav Brod to beat out the CO, 1SG, several SGMs and an O-6 or three who were all out for his hide. He was not even addressing anyone, just singing an offensive song.

This disgusting story reeks of a leftist fantasy world-view where, as stated above.

The fact that the blatantly biased New Republic is not only defending this fantasy hit piece, but attacking the “Conservative bloggers” and, by extension, several US Army Officers and NCOs (who ARE Milbloggers and/or part of the US Armed Forces), disgust me even further.

With “support” like this from the “anti-war” left, who needs enemies? I say “anti-war” because they are very PRO-WAR, but just not on the USA’s side.

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Who the hell writes this crap? I have never in 26 years of service seen, much less heard of ANY behavior like that described in this so called piece of journalism. My own disbelief set aside, I cannot believe that anybody would sit by quietly and allow some of the behaviors described to continue unabated. Personally, I would light anybody up who acted like what was described. Interesting fiction; unfortunately, people believe it.

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I guess every generation has a scheister like Kerry, McBeth etc., and thei find indulgence in smearing soldiers of all levels. Typical of a partisan, and liberal hack. However, the damage this type of fabricated stories is also what get our soldiers killed. The propaganda war fought from our enemy withing is almost beyond repair. Has Al Jazeera picked that up yet?
Liberals always complain about our image in the world, but if they just could look into the mirror every morning, they would find out that it is them damaging our reputation overall. What a bunch of cowards, losers, and liars!

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Agenda journalism is finally meeting its match — you can’t make stuff up anymore, and there are no more cowardly Cronkite moments to be had either.

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One thing for certain, we’re not in Vietnam, anymore.

And, journalists making batshit up is nothing new, either.

Meanwhile, over in Lebanon, the Lebanese Army won one GOING LONG.

Which makes another myth out of wars ya gotta win by doing them “fast.” Nope.

But I kind’a thought the Lebanese Army had the advantage. If not? Those who fled that camp, to move in with their other 11 camps, would’a stuck around for the action.

Journalists don’t “do” action.

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Someone locate this slime and arrange for his capture by the ‘head choppers’. Maybe there’ll be film at 11 of his last lying breath.

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