The story of the Marine who wasn't

Reporting from Colorado Springs, Colo. - Retired Marine Capt. Rick Duncan carried a list of phone numbers of those in the business of helping veterans.

[OPO]

Just goes to show, gay is a mental disorder, and was previously classified as one by the WHO and the APA.

[I am]

Typical anti-war "activist"

[mememe]

He should be put in jail or a mental institution! The men & women that made that sacrifice for are country, have earned it!

[kate]

Tribune needs to do a follow-up story on James Scales from SIU who pulled elaborate milirary hoaxes/lies/exaggerations for YEARS even taking leave from the university to go to Iraq though he never did!!

[Southside Hitmen]

I say leave him in a room full of Marines and see what happens.

[pencil me in]

Didn't President Bush claim to be in the military? Not one soldier has come forward claiming they so much as bumped into him in the barracks or bathroom.

[Tom]

pencil me in wrote:

Didn't President Bush claim to be in the military? Not one soldier has come forward claiming they so much as bumped into him in the barracks or bathroom.

Don't you think you liberals have bashed Bush enough already. How much more are you going to blame on him. He won't be here forever to be used as Obama's scapegoat.

[Tom]

Throw his sorry butt in jail and leave him there to rot. Too many people have already been convicted of impersonating decorated veterans, I am a disabled veteran and find this man to be repulsive and disgusting. Let me have a few minutes with this pinhead and I will take care of him.

[Jim Gault]

Perfect anti-war protester, total fraud....

[Eagle 5]

If he wants to have a taste of the military the Judge should sentence him to jail at Ft. Levenworth for life. What a coward!

[reader]

What harm did he do? He actually did some good. If not for him, the real vet would not have gotten the help he needed. He has an illness. Mental illness is not a crime.(As for his real crimes, justice has been served. He spent time in prison for those crimes.)

[Martin]

Tom wrote:

<quoted text>Don't you think you liberals have bashed Bush enough already. How much more are you going to blame on him. He won't be here forever to be used as Obama's scapegoat.

Conservatives still blame Clinton, and it's fairly common to hear some use Carter. Its not a liberal/conservative thing at all.

[dalmatian847]

I am wrote:

Typical anti-war "activist"

Waiting on the apology from Cindy Sheehan.

[dalmatian847]

pencil me in wrote:

Didn't President Bush claim to be in the military? Not one soldier has come forward claiming they so much as bumped into him in the barracks or bathroom.

Speaking of frauds, why don't you ask Dan Rather about that. I understand he has some airtight "evidence".

[pencil me in]

Tom wrote:

Throw his sorry butt in jail and leave him there to rot. Too many people have already been convicted of impersonating decorated veterans, I am a disabled veteran and find this man to be repulsive and disgusting. Let me have a few minutes with this pinhead and I will take care of him.

Are you talking about President Bush? Nobody has come forward and claimed to have socialized in any way or to have seen him on base when he claimed to have served.

[Mickey]

pencil me in wrote:

<quoted text>Are you talking about President Bush? Nobody has come forward and claimed to have socialized in any way or to have seen him on base when he claimed to have served.

National Guard buddy. There is a difference.
Who did Obama serve with again?

[allstarz77]

I agree with leaving him in a room full of Marines. I AM a Marine and it disgusts me that someone claims to have earned the E.G.A. that other Marines and I have rightfully earned. This is worse than the Naval Officer that was wearing ribbons he didn't rate. To all the all the real Marines out there...I guess it just shows the extent someone would go to be one of us. Semper Fi.

[dalmatian847]

allstarz77 wrote:

I agree with leaving him in a room full of Marines. I AM a Marine and it disgusts me that someone claims to have earned the E.G.A. that other Marines and I have rightfully earned. This is worse than the Naval Officer that was wearing ribbons he didn't rate. To all the all the real Marines out there...I guess it just shows the extent someone would go to be one of us. Semper Fi.

There's a reason you are the few, the proud.

[dalmatian847]

pencil me in wrote:

<quoted text>Are you talking about President Bush? Nobody has come forward and claimed to have socialized in any way or to have seen him on base when he claimed to have served.

Killian documents controversy (also referred to as Memogate, Rathergate or Rathergate[1]) involved six documents critical of President George W. Bush's service in the Air National Guard in 1972-1973. Four of these documents[2] were presented as authentic in a 60 Minutes Wednesday broadcast aired by CBS on September 8, 2004, less than two months before the 2004 Presidential Election, but it was later found that CBS had failed to authenticate the documents.[3][4][5] Subsequently, several typewriter and typography experts concluded the documents are forgeries,[6][7] as have some media sources. No forensic document examiners or typography experts have authenticated the documents, and this may not be technically possible without original documents.[8] The provider of the documents, Lt. Col. Bill Burkett, claims to have burned the originals after faxing copies to CBS.[9]

CBS News producer Mary Mapes obtained the copied documents from Burkett, a former officer in the Texas Army National Guard, in the course of pursuing a story about the George W. Bush military service controversy. The papers, purportedly made by Bush's commander, the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian, included criticisms of Bush's service in the Guard during the 1970s. In the 60 Minutes segment, anchor Dan Rather stated "we are told [the documents] were taken from Lieutenant Colonel Killian’s personal files"[10] and incorrectly asserted that "the material" had been authenticated by experts retained by CBS.[11]

The authenticity of the documents was challenged within hours on Internet forums and blogs, with questions initially focused on alleged anachronisms in the documents' typography and content soon spreading to the mass media.[12] Although CBS and Rather defended the authenticity and usage of the documents for a two-week period, continued scrutiny from other news organizations and independent analysis of the documents obtained by USA Today and CBS raised questions about the documents' validity and led to a public repudiation on September 20, 2004. Rather stated, "if I knew then what I know now – I would not have gone ahead with the story as it was aired, and I certainly would not have used the documents in question,"[13] and CBS News President Andrew Heyward said, "Based on what we now know, CBS News cannot prove that the documents are authentic, which is the only acceptable journalistic standard to justify using them in the report. We should not have used them. That was a mistake, which we deeply regret

That's why Rather is blogging now instead of anchoring the news.

Any other questions?

[eddie]

dalmatian847 wrote:

<quoted text>
Speaking of frauds, why don't you ask Dan Rather about that. I understand he has some airtight "evidence".

Dan Rather had some bogus documents, yet that still doesn't explain why Bush couldn't fly because he didn't bother to get a physical or why not a SINGLE person ever saw him on base--come on now, the son of a prominent family with a famous dad and grandfather and NOBODY remembers him serving?