Yes, Robert Ward Reilly is a great fan of This Ain’t Hell. Yesterday, we began an email exchange about him calling himself a Ranger. So as proof, he sends me this which is supposed to take the place of his DD214;
Yes, I’m convinced that Ward Reilly is a Ranger now, aren’t you? I have a picture of me standing next to General Patton’s grave – so I guess that makes me a General.
Supposedly, this should convince me that his unit called themselves Rangers when he was assigned there (when he wasn’t AWOL and a deserter). Now the picture is pretty old (like Reilly himself), but I noticed a flaw in the picture that might be tape or a piece of paper on the sign;
I don’t know if there is something covering the word “Iron” or not, but it’s enough to make me wonder and the discoloration is just a little too coincidental. The thing I am sure about is that Reilly isn’t an Army Ranger no matter how many pictures he sends me.
Oh, he also wanted me to know that he brushes his teeth every day – so he’s not as nasty as I think.
I don’t link to Army Sergeant often, or at all really, but she’s declared over the weekend that she’s not a subversive socialist bent on over throwing our system of government. Odd that a member of an organization supposedly made up of patriotic former servicemembers would have to make such a statement, isn’t it?
I love America. I love my brothers-in-arms, even if it is in a dysfunctional way. I love the Constitution, and the founding fathers. I have a slightly unhealthy obsession with Alexander Hamilton. I believe in a system of democracy. I believe in our freedoms. I may think some things in our country aren’t working perfectly, but I do not believe in changing them with any particular ‘ism’ of the moment. If you have an agenda? I’m against it. If you are attempting to use what I believe in for your own purposes? Feel free to consider me your implacable enemy. I am not your soldier. I swore an oath, and I meant it.
This is not a post of support for Army Sergeant, it’s a condemnation of the realities of Iraq Veterans Against the War. It is a complete lie, right from the name of the organization – it’s not an association of Iraq veterans. Even one of the founders of the organization never got closer to Iraq than a safe and warm office in Turkey monitoring overflights of the No-Fly Zone – he left the Air Force the month before the war in Iraq began.
The organization exists to give, what Medea Benjamin called “street creds”. It’s organized so that an elite, photogenic few live a decadent life of drugs and sex, while others who are in need of the organization’s funds and connections are forgotten and left to fend for themselves. I could cite specific examples, but I’ve promised some people that I wouldn’t tell their stories of instances that the group’s leadership neglected them – preferring to keep them supplied with illegal drugs and alcohol than getting them the help they need.
I can also cite specific examples of their VVAW and VFP mentors abandoning some members. One member of IVAW told me how Bill Perry was specifically responsible for his VA claim being denied.
Some of you might remember the post I did about Darnell Stephen Summers, another mentor of IVAW in Germany, and how he belonged to to the radical VVAW-AI (the AI meaning anti-imperialist) which was actually the socialist/communist membership of the VVAW who left and formed their own, more extreme organization. It seems that IVAW may be heading down the same road – except looking at the recent membership, I suspect that the more moderate IVAW members will be leaving this time because they’re outnumbered by the far-Left extremist whackos.
There is no place for people who merely oppose the war in IVAW, there’s no place for real Iraq veterans in IVAW. They’re more concerned about providing economic opportunities for people like TJ Buonomo and Matthis Chiroux who are worthless turds and couldn’t find productive employment anywhere else.
Our favorite IVAW member has brought out his third and fourth videos in a series in which he claims he’ll expose IVAW for the fake organization that it is. He claims it took so long to bring out this video because he’s been in the hospital with heart problems. In case you haven’t seen them, his other two videos along with our commentary are here and here.
As I suspected, MacBeth points to Kelly Dougherty as one of the people to help him craft his phony stories. He also fingers Amadee Braxton (a civilian liason from IVAW to other organizations with the organizational expertise to keep them afloat) as the bagman who funded his charade. Braxton keeps a low profile because of her duties.
MacBeth claims he had another faerie tale that was more believable than the one that went public, so I guess he blames IVAW for him being exposed as a liar and fake. He also claims that the IVAW tried to keep the video out of the hands of “pro-war” bloggers because they knew that it would be debunked in about two seconds.
MacBeth also ties in Vets for Peace and Socialist Alternative to IVAW antics, which comes as no surprise to regular readers of this blog.
In the second video, the real stunner – he claims that his stories were all lies. Shocked? Me neither. He does defend the troops and apologizes to them (but he’s still mad at his drill sergeant – so am I still mad at my drill sergeant. One of these days, SFC Jason Hurst, one of these days….). But he continues that IVAW knew he was lying from the start and manufactured the DD214 that they used to defend him. Since the first time I wrote about him, I’ve seen a few altered DD214s from IVAW, too, so I tend to believe it. For those of you who haven’t seen his fake DD214 here it is;
And here’s his real DD 214;
MacBeth also claims that he’s not a pro-war plant as some members of IVAW have suggested. He admits that IVAW knew he was a fake from the beginning. Honestly, I don’t know how they couldn’t know. But here’s the second video;
Again, I caution the reader that Jesse MacBeth is a proven liar – vitually nothing he says can be accepted at face value. That’s why This Ain’t Hell is here – to bring you the documented proof. MacBeth’s videos only serve as a starting point. He claims his book is chugging along, too. That should be a laugh riot.
As a point of reference, here’s his original videos. A year ago, there were still people who believed him (read the comments on the second video);
Added Sunday, 9AM: MacBeth added a third video this weekend;
We here at This Ain’t Hell, because we’re a military blog of sorts, tend to focus on the disingenuous organizations like IAVA and VoteVets and their slavish adherence to Democrat policy. Well it seems that some of the other organizations of the Left are beginning to notice that their fellow orgs are suffering the same malady;
I guess these guys are beginning to believe that they’ve been manipulated by MoveOn. Of course, they might have noticed how the Democrats didn’t bother to end the war when they took office after the 2006 midterms. Or how they didn’t bother to impeach President Bush – that the anti-war crowd were just held at arm’s length. They were even convinced to stop their public antics during the electoral process.
I’d add here that VoteVets falls under the direction of MoveOn.org. John Bruhn, the former Army sergeant turned anti-war activist, left VoteVets a few years back because they seemed to be more pro-Democrat than they were anti-war. I’m just sayin’.
This David Swanson who wrote the above piece, is a pretty radically Left guy;
Swanson is Co-Founder of AfterDowningStreet.org, creator of ProsecuteBushCheney.org and Washington Director of Democrats.com, a board member of Progressive Democrats of America, the Backbone Campaign, and Voters for Peace, a convenor of the legislative working group of United for Peace and Justice, and chair of the accountability and prosecution working group of United for Peace and Justice.
I guess he’s just plain fed up with watching donor money going down the tubes at MoveOn and merely supporting a Democrat continuation of Republican foreign policy.
Swanson was also an advisor for the Kucinich campaign in 2004. And do you remember the proposal for a Department of Peace? Well, Kucinich has submitted a bill (HR 808) to force Obama to create the depatment. You can find the text of the proposed bill at Thomas.LOC.gov, but here’s some pretty wild stuff; (more…)
Well, it’s not so shocking as it is completely expected. Not to mention nauseating and completely unnecessary. Jon Soltz spends nearly 600 words telling us what we already knew – he prays at the alter of Barack Obama, loves the smell of Barack Obama’s feet, and wishes he could be Michelle Obama and bear Barack’s children.
The Motor Pool Queen who dispatched trucks and drivers from the safety of Kuwait to Iraq for four months has the nerve to write;
For those of us who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq….
Fought what? Gerbil and dung beetle invasions? Boredom? The overwhelming sense of self satisfaction at being an insufferable prick?
Oh, and to show the types of people who pray at the altar of Jon Soltz, this bonehead, Jim Staro, (a VFP loudmouth, by the way – more evidence of the incestuous relationship between IVAW, VFP, VoteVets, etc…) in the comments quotes one of the biggest military failures of recent history;
Yes, Lyndon Johnson is in vogue again as a military philosopher. That’s how I got this red mark on my forehead.
Now, I’m not saying that I disagree with the President, I don’t on this particular issue – I told Kokesh that on video last week. But coming from Soltz – it just sounds like “Duh”.
I know there are some folks at IVAW who truly believe in what they’re doing – who believe that they can make a difference. But history is not on your side. Take a look at who’ve you’ve associated yourselves with;
I snagged these photos from someone’s Flickr account.
This is your glimpse at your future. These clowns never accomplished anything in their lives. Ward Reilly is the butt of every joke imaginable – he not only never went to Vietnam, he protested the war by going AWOL nearly a year after combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam. Bill Perry admitted to me that his testimony at the first Winter Soldier was BS, that the only reason he told that story was to score some hairy-legged hippie chicks. His last remark to me about his actions in Vietnam was “We really kicked ass that day”.
Mike MacPhearson is trying to make VFP a Democrat Party organization. He wouldn’t cross President Obama if his life depended on it. The same President Obama who just today announced that there’d be no withdrawal from Afghanistan. That kind of runs counter to your whole message, doesn’t it?
What have they changed? They were successful in making everyone think that all of the veterans who returned from Vietnam were baby killers, dopers and thugs. They gave Hollywood a whole new class of villains for their idiot movies. They probably ruined more lives than PTSD did after that war. That’s your future. And they did it trying to make themselves sympathetic characters for their own selfish reasons. You know people just like them in IVAW and they’re the ones who are leading you over a cliff.
Some of you went and did what you were ordered to do, but others, for their own selfish reasons, couldn’t summon the testicular fortitude to do the same – and they’re the same people who belittle the job you did. Chiroux calls himself an Afghanistan veteran, and then tells all of you in his secret letter that there are no heroes in this war against terrorism. Don’t you find that a bit hypocritical? Some of you did the right thing – you did your business and then protested. The cowards are protesting so they don’t have to do their business – and they’re hiding behind your service.
Thirty years from now, you’ll be a punchline like Ward Reilly. If you really care about the troops, if you really want to help, there are so many other things you can do. If you really need help, there are more organizations than IVAW that can give you real help without making you so dependent on the camaraderie of prima donnas who’ll screw you at every turn. I know, because I’ve heard the stories from your membership. I know that it’s like Lord of the Flies sometimes. Join the world of the grown-ups and make lives for yourselves instead of being pawns and propping up the pretty-boys and the geezers who destroyed so many lives of so many others over the last few decades.
Oh, and to Bill Perry; it was Raoul that had your SUV towed last weekend. That’s funny shit right there.
Olga sent me a recent article about Terry C. Holdbrooks who I wrote about last month in a post about Guantanamo guards. I wanted to check out his story so I asked the good folks at POW Net to get his records for us. Well, they came back and I know even less about him than I did before I asked for his records. He was in the 463rd MP company who were in Guantanamo during the period he claims he was there, but other than that his record is a big blank. Don’t believe me? Look for yourself – this how his Form 2-1 looked when I got it;
It’s almost all blackened out. Well, here’s the story he tells Newsweek;
At Holdbrooks’s next station, in Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., he says things began to unravel. The only place to kill time within miles of the base was a Wal-Mart and two strip clubs—Big Daddy’s and Big Louie’s. “I’ve never been a fan of strip clubs, so I hung out at Wal-Mart,” he says. Within months, Holdbrooks was released from the military—two years before the end of his commitment. The Army gave him an honorable discharge with no explanation, but the events at Gitmo seemed to loom over the decision. The Army said it would not comment on the matter.
Yeah, there are plenty of Muslims in the Army who don’t get harassed and tossed out early. The way his record looks and the way the Army isn’t commenting makes me think he was up to something. If you read my first post about him, you’ll notice he demeans Christians and the United States because we’re mostly Christians.
Holdbrooks tones it down for Newsweek making himself seem more of a sympathetic character than he did for the UC Davis Human Rights Project on Guantanamo.
Oh, yeah, I have my doubts about his claim that he was discharged two years early. According to his FOIA, he did three years;
But it was an odd number of months. As near as I can tell from his Form 2-1, he went to basic and AIT at Leonard Wood in December 2002, the his unit and Guantanamo from July 2003 – June 2004 and then he was discharged October 2005. The Army blocked out his Duty MOS so I don’t know what his job was while he was stationed at Leonard Wood, but if he was acting as nutty as it seems he was acting at Guantanamo (I’m sorry but all night chats with prisoners is just nutty), I’m sure the Army was a little reticent about letting him patrol the post with a loaded handgun and a badge. And hanging out at WalMart isn’t normal behavior, either.
Anyway, maybe someone from his unit can fill in the blanks for us.
The above pictured dork wants to start a blog war with This Ain’t Hell, and I’m up for it. Really. I am.
Brandon Friedman writes at VetVoice, the blog of VoteVets, the Democrat Party’s koolaid-drinking veteran “organization” of Jon “Motorpool Queen” Soltz. Friedman wrote this in today’s snot-blower;
President Obama attended the wreath-laying for Medal of Honor recipients at Arlington yesterday. And not only did he not blow off the event, but he even placed his hand on his heart. Uh oh. Looks like our anti-Obama friends will have to find something else to complain about now.
Of course the “anti-Obama friends” was linked to our report of Obama not attending the Salute to Heroes Inaugural Ball. This is the third time in three weeks Friedman has mischaracterized my posts in regards to the President.
First of all, Friedman, I have a long standing rule that I don’t have any friends that look like the Muppets’ Beaker so you don’t qualify.
Secondly, all I did was report that the President didn’t attend the event. I dare you to find one judgmental comment in that post. Thirdly, every time Obama actually does something to prove to vets that he likes us, are you going to write about it? It’s going to be a long four years for both of us in that case. Dingus.
