[extropy-chat] Old chestnuts.

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The quote by isthatyoujack at icqmail.com
has long ago been exposed as a fraud:

Supposedly said by an unknown soldier(a non-existent major) in the
village of Ben Tre in the 1968 during the Tet offensive:

"We had to destroy the village in order to save it."  The reporter was
Peter Arnett
and the unknown soldier was Major Peter
Arnett.  So easy to find apt quotes when
you invent them.   I once wrote a scholarly-like treatment of Islam
while in
college and pressed for time.  I made up
three-quarters of the 'hadith' by various
13th and 12th Century Islamic scholars who were as authentic as Major
Peter Arnett. They're still quoted today.  Greetings to all from Har al
deeharhar.


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