OK, lizardoids—it’s time to do some fact-checking. Here’s the latest outrageously slanderous video to make the rounds of the moonbat sites (who eat this stuff up like hallucinogenic candy), featuring an “Iraq veteran” named Jessie Macbeth who claims to be a former Army Ranger, and alleges that the US military is routinely murdering Iraqi civilians: Army Ranger describes US war crimes in Iraq.

It just screams “phony.” LGF readers with knowledge of Army Rangers, please take a look and tell us what you think.

The video is from www.peacefilms.org, which is currently inaccessible. A ‘whois’ lookup reveals that the owner of the site is named Terry Portinga.

UPDATE at 5/22/06 8:10:26 am:

Allahpundit’s on this too: Anti-war video bogus?

Uncle Jimbo at Blackfive says it’s a laughable fake: Anti-war poseur fronted out at Hot Air.

UPDATE at 5/22/06 10:33:33 am:

More at Milblogs: Impersonating A Ranger To Spread Lies.

Greyhawk: Re: Impersonating A Ranger.

Lt. Smash: Winter Soldiers, Revisited.

Protein Wisdom: Ends, means, and the anti-war left.

UPDATE at 5/22/06 10:56:58 am:

A reader emails:

I am a former Ranger and my son is currently w/ 3d Ranger Bn. This guy is the most obvious fake I have ever seen. He should hope he never meets a Ranger in person after this traitorous performance.

In addition to the other indicators of phoniness, consider these:

* He has a profile page at military.com. On it he claims to have three combat parachute jumps (stars on his jump wings. Sorry, Jessie, but no one in 3d Bn made three combat jumps in 2001-05.

* He claims to be Special Forces qualified. (Claiming to be a “Special Forces Ranger” is almost a sure way to spot a phony. But, if he was SF and Ranger qualified, he would not be an E-4, unless he was busted. Although he claims to have an SF scroll, he does not list SF as his unit.

* He claims to have two CIBs. He would not have been awarded two CIBs for service between 2001 and 2005.

* He claims to have been w/ the Rangers in Fallaujah. To my knowledge, 3d Ranger Bn. was not in Fallaujah.

* He claims to have been shot, wounded w/ shrapnel and stabbed (multiple times), but only claims one Purple Heart.

* He claims to have been w/ the Rangers in Iraq for 16 months. Some reporter should ask him which company he was with and how long their tours were. The Rangers don’t go for one year tours like other Army units. And, public reports show that some of 3d Bn’s time has been in Afghanistan, not Iraq.

UPDATE at 5/23/06 8:34:27 am:

A US Army spokesperson says Jessie Macbeth is lying, and has no service record.