VHeadline.com commentarist Oscar Heck writes: Yesterday, I wrote an article about a video in which an ex-US soldier described the atrocities he and others committed against innocent women and children in Iraq (remember Vietnam ...).  As a result of this article, I have received emails telling me that Jesse Macbeth, the person in the video, is a fraud and that it has (apparently) been proved that he is indeed a fraud.

Eight of ten emails sent to me were with denigrating insults (why, I don't know ...?) ... the other 20$ were kind and simply stated that my information was wrong and that Jesse is indeed a fraud.

I want to thank the two kind readers who brought this to my attention ... and I would like to say to the rest, the other 80% (who sent me insults instead), that I am also human and have feelings ... I do not like being insulted the way you have insulted me.  Have you never erred?

Or did I insult them by writing about the video?

Did I imply that the US military is a criminal organization that assassinates innocent women and children? If I did imply this, regardless of the validity of the video, I did not mean it as an insult ... I meant it as fact!

(I am presently researching a list of about 5,000 Iraqis killed in this US invasion of Iraq.  The numbers of children and women killed is astoundingly high in terms of percentage.  I will present the results in a few months ... it is a lengthy process.)

But ... I have questions.  Why do 8 of 10 emails express such violence? Am I not fallible and, occasionally, am I not mistaken?  I am not God, nor have I ever claimed to be.

Now, back to Jesse.

If you click here you can read what Iraq War Veterans Against the War have to say ... and they do state that Jesse is a fraud.

But I still have questions. 

Why is it that what 'Jesse the Fraud' (I will call him this for now) recounts bear such a striking similarity to stories which were recounted to me directly by US soldiers who themselves partook in very similar acts during the Gulf War in 1991?

When I watched the 'Jesse the Fraud' video, I felt I was back in Kuwait (1991) ... listening again to young soldiers telling their horrifying stories.  As I watched, I tried to see if he was perhaps a fraud ... but everything I saw and heard appeared to be real ... much too close to the reality I personally experienced 15 years ago.

I also though of something related to this ... in terms of what is true and what is not.

During the Gulf War. it was claimed in the news (and by the US government) that Iraqis had blown up the oil wells just outside Kuwait City.  However, I was told by several Kuwaitis ... and later by several Saudis (and by others who were private pilots and some who worked in tandem with Lockheed Martin mercenary services) ... that it was the US that blew up the wells to blame Saddam Hussein.

Now, coincidentally, not too long ago, I met an ex-special forces British Marine who was in the war at the same time as I.  He confirmed that it was the US that ordered the destruction of the oil wells ... he was on one of the special forces operations to blow up one of the wells.  He also said that he can not talk about this stuff openly for fear of getting into some kind of trouble (he did not expound).

Who do I believe? CNN and the mass media who claimed that it was the Iraqis who blew up the wells ... or the British ex-special forces Marine who was involved in blowing up an oil well on behalf of the USA?  I have no reason not to believe this person.  He is a best friend of someone very close to me and who I trust implicitly ... should I trust CNN instead?

• Now, in the case of 'Jesse the Fraud,' I have no reason not to believe him.  What he says is so real ... just like the oil wells being blown up (I was there).  I also expect the US military to try to hide the truth for as long as possible. 

The US military would never have come out on their own to say something to the effect of "We are torturing people in Abu Ghraib" ... or ... "We treat prisoners at Guantanamo like animals" ... or ... "Yes, we did use nuclear warheads in Afghanistan and Iraq" ... or ... "Yes, we financed the violent Venezuelan opposition in their violence-ridden coup against democratically-elected President Hugo Chavez in 2002 and we also financed their violence-ridden economic sabotage of the country in 2002 and 2003."

They will certainly not admit to the fact that the US military has been, and is, assassinating innocent Iraqis ... which is a fact ... and I know this to be a fact.  The killerrs told me themselves how they assassinated innocent Iraqi children and old men (they did not mention women) ... just like the British ex-Marine told me about how he was involved in blowing up an oil well.

Who blew up the towers in NYC?

Who killed Kennedy?

Is Chavez really a dictator?

Is Chavez a communist who harbors terrorists?

Who is hiding information from us?

• Jesse the Fraud or the US government?
• The media?

If 'Jesse the Fraud' is indeed a fraud, he really did a great job ... and he should become an actor.  He is very good.  If Jesse is not a fraud ... and I suspect that he is not ... then he will continue to be ridiculed until he either commits suicide, goes crazy or is disappeared.

If I am ridiculed for believing that 'Jesse the Fraud' is not a fraud, so be it ... I have a very difficult time believing certain things, especially with regard to the US military.  I do not believe what I have read so far about 'Jesse the Fraud' being a fraud ... just as I don't believe half of what CNN or the US government says. Do you?

If the US government is so shameless as to lie  about Iraq and Saddam Hussein and the invisible WMD ... if CNN can go along with it ... if the US government can erroneously call Iran a terrorist state and a threat to the USA ... if most of the mass media assists in propagating such falsehoods, and ...  if the US government can wrongly accuse Chavez of being everything from a dictator to an autocrat to a danger to the region and a harborer of terrorists, hey, then just imagine how easy it must be for the US government to discredit the words of a puny bothersome flea like 'Jesse the Fraud.'