Let's Not Forget Phony Jesse

Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 10/4/07 | Bob Parks

[bocopar]

This whole "phony soldiers" thing is not just about Rush Limbaugh or Media Matters or Democrats or Republicans or troop/mission supporters or anti-war types.

It's always been about phony soldiers like Jesse Macbeth and the liberals who really, really wanted what he said to be true.

One YouTube poster wrote, "This 20 minute interview will change how you view the U.S. occupation of Iraq forever. I cannot possibly recommend this more highly. An Iraq war veteran tells of atrocities he and other fellow-soldiers committed reguarly while in Iraq. I have never seen this level of honesty from a U.S. soldier who directly participated in the slaughtering of Iraqis."

Too bad it was all bullshit. No meaningful retractions or explanations of this fraud have been issued by the anti-war left to date. The same kind of suspicious silence we got from The New Republic on the Scott "Baghdad Diarist" Beauchamp fiction. They just figured we'd all just forget about it.

Let's not forget who Jesse Macbeth is, or his words and actions that set this present controversy in motion....

[Texas Eagle]

Let’s also not forget that Jesse McBeth’s real name is Jesse Al-Zaid.

[Sans-Culotte]

I still can’t believe his name is Macbeth. Are there any Snidely Whiplashes in the phone book, too?

[Old Sarge]

Down the Memory Hole.

[Texas Eagle]

I’m not a Shakespeare expert. I wonder if there is anything about that play that inspired Al-Zaid to change his name to McBeth or Macbeth or whatever the play is called.

[Archon of the East]

Ive already got my sign for 08 “DemocRAT = Phony American”

This may just work out!

[JerseyHighlander]

I’ve been searching old FR articles regarding MacBeth, and adding the ‘phonysoldier’ keyword.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=phonysoldier

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

How about Dan Rather, he got a section 8 in basic and claims to be a Marine?

[TASMANIANRED]

Left has returned to an old play book.

Phony soldiers propelled Kerry to the Senate.

They must be standing on their ears trying to figure out why it isn’t working.

[Intolerant in NJ]

How about Dan Rather, he got a section 8 in basic and claims to be a Marine?...or Senator Harkin who claimed to have served a year in Vietnam flying missions when in fact he spent his time in Japan and never got near 'nam or a plane, or that professor (Joseph Ellis?) who claimed he had served in 'nam and told his students how bad it was, when he was never even in the service, or.....the phoniness goes on and on on the left..........

[Army Air Corps]

They have tried a Winter Soldier redux..sort of...but it fizzled before it got anywhere and it is driving them nuts.

[danamco]

Baghdad’s BOB must have escaped to “media matters” and from there sending his messages to dingy Harry at the Senate’s floor!!!

[Sans-Culotte]

Macbeth is about a man who contemplates killing the king after hearing a prophecy from witches that he "will be king hereafter". For about a third of the play, Macbeth agonizes over whether he should "do the deed". Once the deed is done, he becomes conscienceless and proceeds to kill all his opponents with no qualms whatsoever.

I don't know why Al Zaid chose the name. The fact that it is so uncommon and is associated with the theatre should have been a red flag about his "phoniness".