Fake Army Vet: No Service Records At All

So, I was wrong. I expected some amount of service, just greatly exaggerated.

Nope.

None at all.

I never linked or mentioned the background on this. If you don't know, Jessie MacBeth is featured in an Internet "documentary" that's gotten a lot of play. My video-viewing capabilities are still fragged, but, from what I gathered, he alleges he executed loads of Iraqi civilians under direct orders.

In reality, the closest he came to "the shit" was when the fry cooker at Wendy's splattered some oil on his hand. He handled himself with such uncommon valor during that episode that Wendy's offered to put him into its Management-slash-Pheonix-Project program.

Bonus: On this DU thread, they report he has resigned from the Iraq Veterans Against the War.

And scan down for a little DU detective work. Jesse Adam MacBeth had his name changed at age 2. His original name was Jesse Adam Al-Zaid.

A little more incentive to lie, perhaps.

Thanks to Allah for the tip.

More Pulp Writing: Goldstein has lots of links, via Shakespearean quotes.

posted by Ace at 11:33 AM

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