Posted on 06/08/2007 8:51:13 AM PDT by Lady J USA 1981
Man who lied about actions in Iraq admits faking forms
By David Bowermaster
Seattle Times staff reporter
Jesse MacBeth stoked opposition to the Iraq war in 2006 when he spoke out about atrocities he committed as a U.S. Army Ranger serving as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
MacBeth, 23, of Tacoma, claimed to have killed more than 200 people, many at close range, some as they prayed in a mosque. He spoke at an anti-war rally in Tacoma and appeared in a 20-minute anti-war video that circulated widely on the Internet.
Trouble is, none of MacBeth's claims was true. He made it through only six weeks of Army basic training, was never a Ranger and never set foot in Iraq.
Conservative bloggers exposed MacBeth's lies in May 2006, destroying his credibility and embarrassing the Seattle company that produced the video about his exploits.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Just for fun.. DU ‘debating’ if he was real or not when questions first arose:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1260163
No, but he really looks like a rump ranger.
No, but he really looks like a rump ranger.
Some fun information on the Seal brotherhood tracking down fake Seals.
http://www.nightscribe.com/Military/seals/wannabe_seals.htm
We have one guy in town I see on the road almost every day with Seal stickers all over his truck. The guy looks like he couldn’t swim across his bathtub, at that pass one minute of seal training.
No, it wasn’t Sir Walter Scott. It was either Batman or millionaire Bruce Wayne (at stately Wayne Manor). I’ve got it on video tape!
Loser-hope he gets the max.
This lying pos, has been tracked and exposed as a liar on Free Republic.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=jessemacbeth
One of the more interesting footnotes in FR besides this POS never making it out of basic training was this post.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637146/posts
“Fake Ranger Jesse Adam MacBeth Was Born Jesse Adam Al-Zaid
Sweetness & Light ^ | May 23, 2006 | N/A
Posted on 05/23/2006 4:12:31 PM PDT by Sam Hill
You see if you take a pencil that won't hold lead,
Looks like a pipe cleaner atached to a head,
Add a buggy whip body with a brain that leaks,
You got yourself a grit eatin', pencil neck geek.
I’ll see if I can find it..
Ping me if you find them and post them.
Check out the first link I posted above re the FR key word search. I think there was at least one thread re his DD 412.
No, but he really looks like a rump ranger.
I dunno, he looks clean and articulate to me.
According to a wikipedia.org on this guy, his name was changed in 1986 from Jesse Adam Al-Zaid to the current name by, I assume, his mothers’s marriage.
Check out the link from reference #1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Macbeth
bttt
I’ve been out of the loop since Thursday. Is this the guy Rush referenced as being a “phoney solider”?
Yes.
(Except, it’s phony, not phoney.)
Thanks.
Rush will take credit for this, without once mentioning the great job FreeRepublic did in exposing this "phony soldier".
One look at his military photo, and many Freepers pointed out that he had his beret on wrong!
Kinda funny Democrats are ensuring everybody knows who this scum bag phoney is, what he looks like, where he lives.
Thanks Dems!
btw, Limbaugh is immune to the Tom Harkin’s and Harry Reid’s of the world.
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