Thomas --- Colin Brace <cwb at lim.nl> wrote:
> Leigh Meyers wrote:
>
> > Do tell... What did you hear... and where did you
> hear it?
>
> From:
>
http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/newswire/news2005/0205/021105-ward-churchill.htm
>
> February 11, 2005
>
> DENVER—An exhaustive investigation by Bob Newman
> of Newsradio 850 KOA
> (Denver), who is also a frequent guest military &
> terrorism analyst on
> the FOX News Channel and a Men's News Daily
> columnist, into the genuine
> Vietnam service record of radical University of
> Colorado Professor Ward
> Churchill, has revealed that Churchill’s claimed
> combat experience is in
> direct contradiction to his official military
> records.
>
> After a confidential source provided Mr. Newman with
> documents
> pertaining to Professor Churchill’s military
> service and his employment
> at the University of Colorado, Mr. Newman began an
> investigation into
> the documents’ authenticity.
>
> Using his own sources and calling upon the
> investigative skills of FOX
> News Channel’s Rita Cosby, Mr. Newman was able to
> verify that Professor
> Churchill, despite his public claim (in a 1987
> Denver Post interview) of
> having been a paratrooper (Airborne qualified) who
> conducted long-range
> reconnaissance patrols (LRRPs; extremely dangerous
> missions conducted by
> some of the most elite soldiers in the US Army)
> hunting North Vietnamese
> in Vietnam during and after the Tet Offensive of
> 1968, and despite his
> claim that he was a point man in an infantry combat
> unit, was in fact
> trained only as a jeep driver and projectionist (he
> was trained to
> operate film-strip machines and movie projectors),
> according to official
> documentation from the National Personnel Records
> Center, the US
> repository for military records.
>
> Denver attorneys Dan Caplis and Craig Silverman,
> both colleagues of Mr.
> Newman at Clear Channel Colorado, then acquired
> Professor Churchill’s
> original resume that resulted in his being hired by
> the University of
> Colorado. That resume matched exactly the resume
> Gunny Bob had acquired
> from his confidential source. On that resume,
> Professor Churchill cited
> no combat experience whatsoever, no Airborne
> training, no infantry
> training or experience and no winning of the Combat
> Infantry Badge.
> Instead, it said his experience in Vietnam consisted
> of his duties as a
> “Public Information Specialist,†as which he
> “wrote and edited the
> battalion newsletter and wrote news releases.â€
>
> Verification of Professor Churchill’s real Vietnam
> service record was
> completed with the direct assistance of the National
> Personnel Records
> Center in St. Louis.
>
> Gunny Bob notes that in the same 1987 Denver Post
> report, Professor
> Churchill admitted to being a bomb-building and
> weapons instructor for
> the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group
> active in the 1970s.
>
> Gunny Bob won a 2002 National Edward R. Murrow Award
> for investigative
> reporting on homeland security.
>
>
> ___________________________________
>
http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk
>
===== <<Furthermore, we must ask what does the dialectician want? What does this will which wills the dialectic want? It is an exhausted force which does not have the strength to affirm its difference, a force which no longer acts but rather reacts to the forces which dominate it-only such a force brings to the foreground the negative element in its relation to the other. Such a force denies all that it is not and makes this negation its own essence and the principle of its existence.>> -Gilles Deleuze "Nietzche & Philosophy"
__________________________________ Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web http://birthday.yahoo.com/netrospective/