I'm sorry.

[Hurin_Rules]

I think this is all getting us rather far from the salient fact:

We all now know that the article in the original post that started this thread was fake. Is 'Chuck Pitman' even a real person? Who knows.

But it does suggest a few things:

1. Post links to your sources, so that they can be properly evaluated.

2. Refrain from making allegations that you can't back up with facts.

3. Know the difference between blogs (on the right or the left) and more credible news sources (the latter being the ones that double check their sources and provide evidence for them).

Mistakes are inevitable, of course, but so long as you post the links and sources so that we can evaluate them in an honest and objective manner, we won't have to waste our time with such false, malicious crap.

[Gawain of Orkeny]

Know the difference between blogs (on the right or the left) and more credible news sources (the latter being the ones that double check their sources and provide evidence for them).

Nowdays are there any?

[Tribesman]

Is 'Chuck Pitman' even a real person? Who knows.

Yep he is a retired UNMC General , now working in the defense industry his career was mainly admin , but he also done a stint of photographic work during the Vietnam conflict and was wounded in Laos .

He is a real person , but it says something about the rightist mindset when they take an article by a ranting columnist and falsely wrap it in the flag by attributing it to a veteran to try and make it more credible .

If they want a genuine rant from a vet they could always use one of Ollie Norths .
But of course with him being ever so slightly traitorous to his country it does dent his credibility somewhat .