Posted on 09/12/2004 12:33:28 PM PDT by Travis McGee
Authentic or not, Bush memos no big deal to retired guardsmen
U.S. Servicemen React to Bush Guard Memos (spreading the lie)
Allegations of suspect conduct during the Vietnam war also have been leveled at John Kerry, who won three Purple Hearts, a Silver Star and a Bronze Star in Vietnam.
A group sponsoring television ads challenging his wartime record contends Kerry's own gunfire caused the wound that brought his first Purple Heart. Navy records and other veterans do not support the charge.
Ahmad Majied of Albany (GA) says the latest allegations about Bush's military record are more troubling to him than allegations about service honors leveled at Democratic challenger Kerry.
Majied, a Democrat from Albany who served 30 years in the Navy, including five years as a SEAL in Vietnam, said the memos support his belief that Bush was a "playboy" during his service years.
"He had enough money to get what he wanted," Majied said. "I think his main concern was not to go to Southeast Asia. I bet he never dreamed it would come back to haunt him."
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So Criminal Number 18F checked him out. Here's the reply from "authentiseal."
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Official Reply
NOT A SEAL
Thanks for checking with us - we greatly appreciate your interest in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams, and your search for the TRUTH. If the name you provided was "spelled accurately", we do NOT have a listing for anyone named "Majied" in our entire database of slightly more than 10,000 names. Unless he has undertaken the unlikely action of a full legal name change since his claimed service with the SEAL Teams, I can state conclusively that the man NEVER completed SEAL training, and thus he is not now, nor was he ever a Navy SEAL. While there are other training steps that must be completed on the path to becoming a SEAL, BUD/S training is the first and most vital, and that training course is totally unclassified. Without having first completed BUD/S training, a man cannot go on to become a SEAL. There are definitely secret SEAL missions, but despite anything the man might have said, there are NO secret SEALs. If you choose to confront the man regarding his fraudulent SEAL claims, please show him this email message and invite him to contact me - a real SEAL - directly by email with information that will support his claims. I'd enjoy hearing his stories first hand, but I've extended this offer to literally thousands of individuals over the last three years, and in all that time I've received only a scant handful of replies, so I don't really expect to hear from him either.
Again, please visit our web page www.authentiseal.org/realitycheck.htm for some very specific information related to the realities of SEAL training, SEAL duties, and the claims most often made by SEAL imposters.
Thank you again for your assistance in upholding the honor of the US Navy SEAL Teams.
Respectfully, Gregory Platt
UDT/SEAL 1970-1974
SEAL Authentication Team - Investigator
"The only service where all investigators are US Navy SEALs"
This only took a couple of minutes time for "amateurs" on Free Republic to check out. The "professional" journalists at the AP must have been to busy to do this basic checking.
Military ping. Please spread this to the military blogs etc.
It's nice to verify the "caliber" of the "veterans" who the MSM are using to back Kerry and slam Bush.
AP just like the rest of the MSM doesn't do any investigating on their sources... If its Anti-Bush they feel it is fit to print... Liberal Pravda
Wasn't this guy listed yesterday in the story as being a Republican?
I couldn't help myself though, them using someone named Ahmad Majied to make this claim just seemed to be reaching for it to me...like they had to find a politically correct name of any kind to make their claim.
Thanks for checking it out and pointing out that it is another lie and sham.
Get this to Drudge ASAP...also to the other main bloggers.
Nice Travis. That's the thing about MSM "journalists" - they don't check stuff out, and they can't check stuff out as quickly and effectively as 100,000 Freepers. They are totally naked, vulnerable to being scammed at every turn. And they used to say, how can you trust the Internet - but now the tables have turned. The old media dinosaurs can't move without being swarmed under with the truth. I won't miss them.
Maybe "Ahmad" was a double-super-secret SEAL (DSS-SEAL). I've heard that they know how to do a Vulcan neck-pinch to disable enemies. Pretty cool!
Wheels coming off the MSM/DNC engine bump.
Old media types will often justify their laziness by blaming the pressures of meeting deadlines. This will be old media's next line of defence: deadline anxiety syndrome.
"These bloggers in their pyjamas have an UNFAIR advantage!" they'll whine. "We have to fill so many column inches/airtime minutes in just hours! They can take all day to find all sorts of stuff because they have nothing better to do! We can't wait forever to get our calls returned! Editors are always cracking the whip!"
Shouldn't this be in Breaking News?
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I'll bet that is Ahmad's hat that sKerry keeps in his briefcase.
ROTFLMAO!!!!!!
I've heard of names like Magid and Majid, but not Majied. I imagine the press isn't worried too much about accuracy "in the fog of war". They have enough trouble getting their facts straight when they cover weddings and funerals.
bump.
I doubt the Democrats will ever recover.
Maybe he was using another name then.
Maybe he was using another name then.
Have any of you seen the ad about the woman stockborker who claims she is a Republican and will vote for Kerry?
You can't miss it. She is as boring as hell and looks like a lesbo queen and typical RAT voter.
They can drag anybody out they want and claim they are a Navy Seal or Republcian voting for Kerry. So what. It is so easy to fake this that it is laughable. After all, they used fake memos at CBS.
What is important is Kerry's history, and he was a radical extremist in college, in Vietnam, and after Vietnam, and he certainly was in his 20 anti-American years in the Senate.
Fake Purple Hearts. Fake Navy Seals. Fake RAT lesbo queens in Republican disguise. Fake CBS memos.
What counterfeit crap is next from the Kerry camp?
Probably ought to track this claimer down.
Is it just I, or doesn't "Ahmad Majied" sound Arabic or an Islam-derived name? I can't figure out why this bothers me.
Another example of sloppy, stupid reporting. If you're too lazy to check someone's background, you write,"Majied, a Democrat from Albany who SAYS HE served 30 years in the Navy, including five years as a SEAL in Vietnam..." and you're off the hook if the guy's bogus.
It's raining nails!
Not only amateurs, but amateurs in jammies, according to the ex-CBS snob on Fox last week. :)
Good work, Criminal Number 18F!
Thanks Travis...I hate the lack of background checks done by MSM..They print what seems sexy or whatever fits their agenda.
bump
Outstanding work, gentlemen. I suggest a tip to Drudge on this ASAP.
Thanks.
It might be a good idea to have Mr. Platt check the different spellings. If he indeed is a fake, we should make sure that we checked some alternate spelling.
GREAT POST!
I got it. This is the guy who gave Kerry the hat!
Good work! It's worth remembeing that John Kerry's right-hand man at VVAW, Al Hubbard, once claimed to be a decorated Air Force captain until NBC got the goods on him and forced him to admit on the Today show that he'd lied and was a staff sergeant with "no record of any service in Vietnam".
Back then Kerry defended him, saying the lie was "understandable". Wonder if he'll have a comment on this fake Seal?
So, now we know what the MSM Seal of Approval is worth.
We also see that AP is officially part of Hillary's half-vast, left-wing conspiracy.
The precursor of the SeALs have been around since when, late 40's, early 50's? When did BUD/S start?
I guess I'm thinking that it would have taken someone or some people on the original teams to start the BUD/S training. Is that correct or not? Thus, the original SeALs (if they were called that then) didn't go through BUD/S, right?
I also put a query in yesterday about this guy, and received the same reply very late last night. Just checked my e-mail. Very, very quick response.
Thanks for posting.
"Ahmad Majied of Albany (GA) says the latest allegations about Bush's military record are more troubling to him than allegations about service honors leveled at Democratic challenger Kerry".
...the AP shouldn't have mentioned the news about the Navy Investigations into Kerry's phony Silver Star citations...
...somebody slipped up!...
Barnes
Kitty Litter Kelley
Are the other individuals quoted in this article also fake? We should check it out. Meanwhile, when is Greg Packer going to check in?
Quick work,bump.
It's worth noting for the record that our esteemed "Travis McGee" served as a REAL SEAL.
There sure are a lot of fakes running around. We have a fake hero running for President, and fake Navy Seals trying to take down President Bush from another angle.
Whoopsie! Caught in another one, are they? There must be a horrific sinking feeling in the collective pit of their stomachs over in the breakrooms of the OldMedia hallowed halls. They don't get to make up stories with impunity any more, and that sudden realization is leaving plenty of shell-shocked victims in its wake. (Welcome to the Brave New World of the brave NewMedia!)
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