DU apparently is becoming the clearinghouse for hoaxes

[brentspeak]

First, the Jason Leopold/truthout's "Rove has been indicted!" hoax, and today, there's been at least three "US Army Ranger reveals that US troops massacred 200 Iraqi civilians" threads. And yes, the latter has been exposed as a hoax.

But the thing that gets me are some of the responses: in addition to the sane people who question the validity of these "reports", there's a bunch of people apparently willing to accept these extraordinary claims at face value. These individuals are either unbelievably stupid or...

...they're just faking that they believe the stories, hoping to sucker in the more pliable people here.