Thanks to This Ain’t Hell for chasing this nutcase down.
Remember Iraq Veterans Against the War, the anti-war political theater group that once starred Jesse MacBeth, the fraudulent Army Ranger and supposed Iraq War veteran who told lurid stories of the 200 senseless murders he committed as an Army Ranger in Iraq, or would have committed if he actually were an Army Ranger instead of a stinking sack? It turns out that another one of the stars of the IVAW, and
the founder of the Colorado Veterans Alliance (CVA), is now proved to be a liar. Not just a liar, mind you, but a liar and an escaped mental patient who was never in any branch of the military because the military does not take guys who are as deranged as a jimson-weed-eating naked clown.
Nobody with a lick of sense who heard Rick Duncan’s cuckoo stories of how he was an openly gay Marine Captain commanding a battalion in Iraq would have doubted he was crazy or a liar, or both.
As a Captain, I commanded a battalion of Marines and there was no secret that I am gay and the majority of them did not care. I was a good Marine, a good officer and loved my Marines and my country. (This ain’t Hell)
Faker exposed. His name isn’t even Rick Duncan. He was not in the Pentagon on 9/11/2001. He is Richard Glen Strandlof of Colorado Springs, liar and fruitcake. And to add to his embarrassment, he is now under investigation for fraud and embezzlement.
How embarrassing!
How come the much vaunted objective media failed to catch yet another obvious fraud? Was it the first day with a new brain every time a new brainless reporter did a fawning story about the brave, openly gay Marine captain speaking truth to power?
Guess so.

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This group put together by Wesley Clark is just a disgusting...
JadedByPolitics (Diary) Friday, May 15th at 6:32AM EST (link)Kerry (The Daddy of lying military) group of idiots….trust me if you had ever seen these people in an antiwar rally you would immediately question whether even ONE of them had been to Iraq or Afghanistan….probably 80 percent have been IN the military however they NEVER saw live combat….so they truly do NOT speak in the name of the Iraq war veterans….they are pathetic and its all about UNDERMINING the military….Wesley Clarks epitath will say he was a hardcore leftist who turned on his country!
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Richard Mullins (Diary) Saturday, May 16th at 1:01AM EST (link)soldiers,marines,airmen and seamen are doing in Iraq and Afganistan. They simply don’t like this war(peace on terms). Thier the kind of peple that don’t want our troops to have every thing the need to fight the enemy. When we don’t have enough ammunion for M-16 and what not, there happy. When our troops are not getting enough water(an investigation is ongoing into this after KHOU did an investigation on this) thaier happy Anything that hampers our fighting the war on terror,their esstactic.
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Joe Biden is like a Decrepit Park owner with a Meth lab that happens to not only be a dealer but a user.
Let’s Bankrupt the Democratic paty. Make spend all the money to defend thier candidates.
Doesn't surprise me
avgamerican (Diary) Saturday, May 16th at 11:16PM EST (link)“Repeat the lie often enough and soon the people will believe it.”
Joseph Goebbels
Wesley Clark was Clinton's pick...
nessa (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 10:09PM EST (link)that doesn’t explain him but his deceitful and traitorous acts should come as no surprise. We can all look forward to “the headgear makes you elite” Shinseki as BO’s pick to start spouting more of the same.
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It's not that he lied so much as it was a BAD lie
tankertodd (Diary) Friday, May 15th at 9:40AM EST (link)Tip to those impersonating the military: the lingo may sound meaningless to you, but it actually has a LOT of meaning. For example, a battalion is NOT, repeat NOT, the same as a company, division, platoon, brigade, flight, gaggle, or smattering. These are all DIFFERENT size units. And they have very SPECIFIC characteristics. One of them being who gets to command them.
Once you get that straight, we’ll move onto lesson 2: don’t use a TV show or movie to help you figure out how to put together a military uniform. Believe it or not, they get it wrong SOMETIMES. Anyone in the military who’s watched these shows has howled more than a few times at crooked collar insignia, upside down insignia and ribbons, medals in the wrong place….
Let’s just say it’s a minefield to impersonate a military member. I would avoid it. Stick to impersonating a sane person. Lots of people succeed at that. Just look at Nancy Pelosi (whoops, bad example.)
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I don't this this came out quite as you intended:
blooch Friday, May 15th at 11:04AM EST (link)“Let’s just say it’s a minefield to impersonate a military member. I would avoid it. Stick to impersonating a sane person.”
Although serving under CinC Obama may end up like a ride on the Crazy Train
“Lieutenant Dike wasn’t a bad leader because he made bad decisions. He was a bad leader because he made no decisions.”
What I don't understand.
nilram (Diary) Saturday, May 16th at 11:10PM EST (link)I can understand how the press can be duped by such idiocy. But veterans?!? A captain commanding a battalion should set off alarm bells in any military member of former members ears.
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
–Douglas MacArthur
First I've heard his "Battalion" claim
Erick Brockway (Diary) Tuesday, May 19th at 1:15AM EST (link)But I never really pay attention to idiots like that whole phony group. The ones who did pay attention to him wanted to believe him so he could’ve said he was a gay Admiral and it wouldn’t have mattered.
Note to lefties;
“Don’t be afraid to see what you see.” -Ronald Reagan
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It looks more and more like it.
roughneckinthailand (Diary) Tuesday, May 19th at 12:51PM EST (link)3 generations of the most ill educated, highly indoctrinated, moral bankrupts now have us under siege.
Ummm, movies and TV are Required By Law to get it wrong
Raven (Diary) Tuesday, May 19th at 1:51AM EST (link)The uniform, I mean. Because to impersonate a member of the US Armed Forces is a felony and wearing the actual uniform qualifies as impersonating.
Years ago, they usually just turned the buttons upside down on the dress uniforms. Now, well…
I don’t think Hollywood knows or even Cares enough to even try to get the uniform close enough to matter.
For example, Air Force NCO stripes don’t go on the ACU (Transformers).
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I am speechless.
Danielle Davis (ocleverone) (Diary) Saturday, May 16th at 9:32AM EST (link)How on God’s green earth can a looney tune of this magnitude be taken seriously let alone put in charge of something.
Is the left so desperate for champions that they will take any warm body that lies or needs to be on meds to prove their point?
I really don’t get the left mentality. I really don’t.
To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it. — Margaret Thatcher
LJ, is this dugg?
itrytobenice (Diary) Saturday, May 16th at 11:29AM EST (link)If so, have you got a link?
Proper grammar saves lives.
Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.
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If they can get people to believe that gay is a distinct
avgamerican (Diary) Saturday, May 16th at 11:19PM EST (link)gene in the human chromosome race then they are convinced that they can get people to believe anything.
You all realize that our forum could soon be
avgamerican (Diary) Saturday, May 16th at 11:21PM EST (link)targeted as hate speech?
Every forum will be
Beaglescout (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 1:35AM EST (link)and it will go to the SCOTUS.
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LJ your most striking comment is about the media...
antisocial (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 2:47AM EST (link)“How come the much vaunted objective media failed to catch yet another obvious fraud?”
Media seems to be avoiding the investigation necessary for a story. These days any story is picked up by the media and advertised as truth. To verify a story, motives and cross-checking via multiple sources seem to be thing of the past.
If you look closely media is more about Corporate motives of media parent/sister companies, currying favors, political considerations, catering to the base/mood….
Gov. Palin pointed this out in an interview with Greta…. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,449884,00.html
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“should have been so easily corrected if — if the media would have taken one step further and — and investigated a little bit, not just gone on some blogger probably sitting there in their parents’ basement, wearing their pajamas, blogging some kind of gossip or — or a lie”
“And that was in mainstream media, the question that was asked, instead of just coming to me and — and — and you know, setting the record straight.”
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not too many Captains command battalions
Doc Holliday (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 4:09AM EST (link)but since most leftists only know Cap’n Crunch and have no clue what a battalion is, I am not surprised.
Molon Labe!
In the Marine Corps a Battalion is commanded by
mbecker908 (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 8:56PM EST (link)a LtCol. Captains are Company Commanders.
yep, army is the same way mbeck
Doc Holliday (Diary) Monday, May 18th at 5:25PM EST (link)but the left would have bought it if he said he was a Royal Hussar
Molon Labe!
Same in the Seabees
Erick Brockway (Diary) Tuesday, May 19th at 1:22AM EST (link)Except an O3 is a Lieutenant and a Captain is an O6 just to confuse things.
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Well, it's not unheard of
Raven (Diary) Tuesday, May 19th at 1:59AM EST (link)for a Major or Full Bird Colonel to command a battalion, but it’s supposed to be a light colonel.
“If you do not have a sword, sell your cloak and buy one.”
Luke 22:36
The only stories they fact check
Warrior (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 2:37PM EST (link)are those that might be disfavorable to leftist causes. And if true, they don’t print them or lambaste them as devious mechinations of the Right Wing Attack Machine.
Those that are favorable are published regardless of truth. (Remember the anti-Bush stories characterized by lefty editors as “too good to check”?! And those stories that were “true” even if they weren’t true.)
Obama’s personal Pravda Press never disappoints…
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should be 'machinations'
Warrior (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 2:38PM EST (link)n/t
“Racial criteria are irrational, irrelevant, [and] odious to our way of life.” — Thurgood Marshall for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in the 1950 Supreme Court case of McLaurin v. Oklahoma
Thank you for pointing this out...
mackbolan (Diary) Sunday, May 17th at 7:27PM EST (link)I had not heard about this until reading your post. It’s amazing how this type of thing goes under-reported while at the same time I’m forced to watch the “reporters” on television talk about Casey Anthony or Drew Peterson for the 10 millionth time.
Sounds like the kind of guy Obama would have appointed to be the czar of something without vetting him.
FNC Picked This Story Up Today, I Saw (nt)
IJB Sunday, May 17th at 8:18PM EST (link)This guy,
Wayne (Diary) Monday, May 18th at 5:47PM EST (link)the escaped mental patient, also claimed to have been wounded twice in Iraq, one time having his pinkie finger shot off. But he showed up in pictures with all 10 fingers. But, the media was busy taking him at his word, gay Marine Captain, war hero, anti-war, anti-Bush hero, to do even an elementary background check on him. How typical.
“Hell, these are Marines. Men like them held Guadalcanal, and took Iwo Jima, Baghdad ain’t s–t”. Maj. Gen. John F. Kelly, USMC, Deputy CG, First MEF