U.S. Soldiers signed letters they didn't write - made news across USA

[dutchdemocrat]

The story first broke here



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=517813

But it is getting legs. And this is clear evidence of lies by the military as the multiple soldiers admitted they signed the same story.


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U.S. Soldiers Signed Letters They Did Not Write Praising Iraqi War Effort
By Staff and Wire Reports
Oct 11, 2003, 18:30

Identical letters claiming to be from different U.S. soldiers describing successes in Iraq were sent to newspapers around the country and soldiers whose names appeared on those letters admit they did not write them and some say they were ordered by their superiors to sign their names.
Identical letters from different soldiers with the 2nd Battalion of the 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment have appeared in 11 newspapers so far and have been sent to many more, a check with newspaper editors around the country reveals.

In Olympia, Washington, The Olympian newspaper received two identical letters signed by different hometown soldiers: Spc. Joshua Ackler and Sgt. Alex Marois. The paper decided not to run either after discovering they were form letters.

The five-paragraph letter tells glowing stories about soldiers' efforts to re-establish police and fire departments, and build water and sewer plants in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, where the unit is based.

It describes people waving at passing troops and children running up to shake their hands and say thank you.

"The quality of life and security for the citizens has been largely restored, and we are a large part of why that has happened," the letter reads.

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http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_3249.shtml

[Walt Starr]

1. Astroturfing as official policy

The audacity of this administration never ceases to amaze me.

[Nashyra]

2. God I hope this has legs

I just posted on a similar thread. Glad that it is hopefully being picked up by the media. The candidates should take this one and run. Now the * is making the troops lie.

[DUreader]

4. edit that

I screwed up the search terms

[dutchdemocrat]

6. This is more than legs

This is octopi.

Yessss..........

[Demobrat]

3. Those poor guys. To be in that hellhole, know the truth and be

forced to sign a letter like that? I wonder if the names and sigs are even real? I'll bet those men and women, if they even exist, don't even know their names are on those things.

[dutchdemocrat]

5. Aha... but DU'ers were the first to see this

I saw a post yesterday that was referring to this. And here is another thread on the subject that contains some great research by a DU'er.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Dupe

Please respond to this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=519265

[DemoVet]

8. Who ordered them to sign these?

Who does that trail lead to? If someone had tried to get us to sign something like this in Vietnam he would have returned to the rear with his "letters" shoved up his tukus. How sick and perverted this administration is, to have to rely on vulnerable soldiers to prop up it's bankrupt policies. If anything, this highlights how desperate they are. Every day I hear of the deaths of our fine young men and women and I just get angrier and angrier. I want to see Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Rice on trial for the deaths of all of the Iraqis and Americans that they have murdered with their lies.