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[DBKP - Death By 1000 Papercuts - DBKP] It’s come to light that Schaffer, the ex-Marine, ex-Iraq War vet who claimed he was brain damaged by a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq and was now against the war was actually a guy named Rick Duncan who had never served in the military. He hadn’t spent time in the military but he did spend time in a mental institution.

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[Colorado Independent] Colorado Independent » Iraq veteran ruse fooled local media and ...: Jared Polis (D-Colorado) was running for Congress last year, he appeared with Duncan at a rally at the Colorado Veteran’s Monument. When Democrat Hal Bidlack was trying to unseat Rep.

[Infidels Paradise] Bumped, Updated::War Hero Winter Soldier Turns Out To Be Mental ...: He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group Votevets.org.

[Veterans Today - News for US Military Veterans Jobs, VA Benefits, Home Loans, Hospitals & Administration] Branson celebrates Women's Veterans Week May 16-22 : Veterans ...: In this spirit, we encourage you to post your comments on this article and any other articles on VeteransToday.com. VeteransToday.com does NOT endorse the comments of its users or the content of Staff Writers but supports and respects the users and Staff Writers right to express their points of view.

[News First Colorado - KOAA.com] KOAA.com - Local veterans worried about fallout from imposter arrest: Throughout the life of VoteVets.org, we've strived to check and verify every Form DD-214 of veterans we choose to speak on behalf of the organization. In the case of the person we knew as Rick Duncan, we did not because he was already a well-established leader of a veterans group in Colorado, and came to us with recommendations from many respected people.

[Mudville Gazette] Stealing Air: He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group Votevets.org.

[LewRockwell.com Blog] LewRockwell.com Blog: CNN Under Stress: The folk at CNN continue to struggle with the "whats" and the "whys" of an Army "stress clinic" in the heart of the Iraqi war zone. Do these electronic yahoos believe that, just because they are able - from the studio comforts of Atlanta - to deal with the deaths of hundreds of thousands of abstract humans, the soldiers for whom such killings are marginally real, should be as unaffected?

[IdahoStatesman.com News Updates] Payback time: Boisean plans to take wounded veterans fishing in ...: "This is a once-in-a-lifetime-type fishing trip. I've always wanted to go deep-sea fishing," Schafer said.

[Stix Blog ver 3.0] It's the Veteran | Stix Blog ver 3.0: It is the VETERAN not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion. It is the VETERAN , not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.

[Instapundit] Instapundit » Blog Archive » DENVER POST: Dems red-faced over ...: “He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group .Now, politicians are dealing with news that the man they believed to be a former Marine and war veteran wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb, in fact, never served in the military ”” but did spend time in a mental hospital.” .

[JustOneMinute] JustOneMinute: A Question For James Risen: But the book also argues that the NSA's eavesdropping policy shows theextent to which the war on terrorism has spurred the intelligencecommunity to flout legal conventions at home and abroad. Risen's chieftarget is the CIA, where, he argues, institutional dysfunction andfeckless leadership after 9/11 led to intelligence breakdowns thatcontinue to haunt the U.S. Though much of State of War covers groundthat is broadly familiar, the book is punctuated with a wealth ofpreviously unreported tidbits about covert meetings, aborted CIAoperations and Oval Office outbursts.

[Colorado Independent » Blog] Colorado Independent » Schaffer blasted for Iraq oil deal ...: The chief strategist and co-founder of a pro-Iraq war organization scheduled to endorse Republican Bob Schaffer in his run for the U.S. Senate on Wednesday was paid to promote investment in the Kurdistan region of Iraq at the same time .radio host Melanie Morgan, plans to appear Wednesday for the Schaffer endorsement at a Colorado Springs Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall, along with Gold Star mother Debbie Lee, whose son, Marc Lee, was a Navy SEAL killed in Iraq in 2006.

[Via Media] Where's the Apology? - Via Media: Consider all those journalists and think tank talking heads who helped sell America on the need for the war in Iraq and then, without so much as a word of apology, turned on George Bush for getting it wrong. ...

[Cafferty File] Cafferty File: Tell Jack how you really feel Blog Archive - Would ...: Jack, If those lawyers and the those higher up in the food chain are going to go scot free for the torture memos, then we should demand that the National Guard troops be pardoned. There was a photo in Newsweek at the time of the Abu Griab incidents that clearly showed a number of people taking in part that was greater than the 7 the Army tried and convicted.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » So interesting: AFAIC, Daniel Schorr's been talking to himself for the last 10 years. I used to like him but everything he says now says more about his own ego than any current events.

[Media Matters for America - County Fair] CBS devoted 5 minutes to "lipstick," other McCain attacks before ...: "Even though its 527 is going away, MoveOn.org is not completely heeding Obama's request to stay off the airwaves. Last week, the group teamed up with one of the biggest labor unions, the American Federartion of State, County and Municipal Employees, to go up with a national television ad criticizing Sen.

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