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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Iraq veteran victimized by vandals

    Anthony Gurreri, a 100% disabled Iraq war veteran isn’t done paying for his service. The West York, PA Marine was attacked by vandals on Veterans’ Day;

    “Go back to Iraq and kill more women and kids” was spray-painted on the hood of the family SUV, and “MUDER” — murder misspelled — was scratched into the paint on the driver’s door.

    A former lance corporal in the Marines, Gurreri spent nearly a year in Iraq in 2006, wife Stacie Gurreri said. In addition to being shot, he was injured by a couple improvised explosive devices, she said.

    Anthony Gurreri came home with two Purple Hearts and a combat-caused medical condition that left him on full disability, according to his wife.

    Anyone with information about the anti-soldier vandalism of a disabled Iraq war veteran’s vehicle is urged to call West York Police at 854-1975.

    Thanks to Bev Perlson for the heads up.

  • Matthis in your school

    Someone sent me this video yesterday of one of Matthis’ talks in your kids’ school about his time in the military. That’s Elaine Brower at the beginning telling us how 1 in 3 women in the military are raped. Of course, you have to buy into her definition of rape to believe that particular statistic.

    Matthis, not to be outdone, claims that one-in-five men in the military have been raped by other men in their own units. All of you guys who were raped, raise your hands. Yeah, me neither.

    At about 5 minutes into the video, Matthis tells how he pointed his rifle at children every time he went on patrol in Afghanistan. Every time. I wonder how many times “every time” are since he was in Afghanistan on temporary duty (TDY) for less than six days. I’m pretty sure he never left Bagram Air Base, let alone was issued a weapon.

    He talks about the children starving while he gets to eat Burger King in Afghanistan. I wonder if he realizes that many of the troops on Bagram don’t get to eat Burger King like his TDY ass did?

    So, I guess the history of this war will be written by guys who spent less than six days there.

  • But we are suppose to be the horrible ones.

    So meanwhile while our image is being dragged through the mud by the people like Bobby Whittenberg while these are issues like this one going on in Mexico.

    Soldiers are hunting a 12-year-old suspected drug gang hitman accused of helping wage a gruesome turf war in central Mexico, a state prosecutor and Mexican media said on Friday.

    Yea, so in regards to us being accused of using our youth to comment horrible acts in war and that is the “obvious” reason that the world hates it. But in the mean time we have a 12 year old kid killing people for hire.

    The boy, known only as “El Ponchis,” is believed to be working for the South Pacific cartel in Morelos state just outside Mexico City and is one of a group of youths who have already committed “terrible acts,” Morelos State Prosecutor Pedro Luis Benitez told local radio.

    “These minors are still not fully developed and so it is easy to influence them, to give them a gun, pretending it is plastic, that it is a game,” Benitez said.

    Benitez did not name the boy or give more details but when asked directly about the teenage hitmen he said: “They’re persuaded to carry out terrible acts; they don’t realize what they are doing,” he added.

    Oh and never mind about doing wonders for the area.

    More than 31,000 people have been killed since Calderon launched his cartel crackdown four years ago, alarming many Mexicans and some foreign investors who are freezing investment in the country just as it is recovering from recession.

    So I imagine that good old Bobby and friends will be on this to giving full coverage, right?

    Also here is a link that is in Spanish if anyone can read it.

  • The worst persons in the world

    Jon Soltz tells Keith Olbermann why he won’t be living in Keith’s studio broom closet any longer. Soltz milks the sympathy of the four people in Olbermann’s audience and has a real hang-dog expression like he’s been sentenced to death instead of called to serve his country;

    Soltz claims in the video that he’s always separated his military service from his activism. When was that? If you go back over the countless videos in which Soltz appears, every other word out of his mouth mentions his four months in Iraq as a member of the military until recently, a picture of Soltz in a desert landscape and in a combat pogue uniform (no LBE, no helmet, only a weapon) appeared on VoteVets. How is that separating service with political activism?

    Soltz continues that his four months in Iraq led him to oppose the war. HTF did that happen? Four months dispatching vehicles and supervising motor pool police call disillusioned him?

    Soltz’ temporary replacement will be J. Ashwin Madia;

    Interim Chairman of VoteVets.org, J. Ashwin Madia, joined the U.S. Marine Corps and moved to Quantico, Virginia for 6 months of basic training, after Law School. He served in Iraq from September 2005 to March 2006. Madia was lead attorney in over one hundred trials, including thirteen jury trials. He is most proud of his work successfully defending a gay Marine from administrative discharge in 2005, when it was clear that commanders were using disparate standards in their treatment of this Marine compared to other Marines. Madia was a long-time Republican, who supported Bob Dole for President in 1996, and Senator John McCain in 2000, before running as a Democrat for Congress in Minnesota in 2008.

    Yeah, I was a long-time Democrat until VoteVets came along and I switched parties, you doofuses. It’s as if they don’t even hear how stupid they sound when they say stupid shit like that.

    I wish Jon Soltz luck and I hope he comes back safely. At least he’s not a complete pussy and avoiding the call. But I also hope he appreciates that he gets to reap the benefits of the surge which he so adamantly opposed.

    The word is that IAVA’s Paul Reickhof is taking advantage of the new space in the MSNBC broom closet that he and Soltz shared over the last several years and buying a new beanbag chair.

  • Veterans Day for the protected class

    So now that Veterans’ Day has ended, we can take a look at how the Left celebrated the sacrifice of our troops. Like Bobby Whittenberg, formerly of the Iraq Veterans Against the War, more currently of the Veterans For Peace Austin, TX chapter;

    Of course the fact that he’s a veteran encourages the mindless stooges to pile on with him.

    Dahlia Wasfi is an idiot, Ph.D or not, she’s a straight up moron for encouraging this shit. Oh, and Whittenberg is a pussy.

    Well, if that didn’t get your blood boiling, this is sure to raise it few degrees. Matthis goes on Russian Today and spouts off.

    “There are vets who are anti-military, I’m one of them. There are vets that are anti-American because of their experience in the military and I’m one of them,” Chiroux says.

    Nothing in his “experience” made him anti-American. In fact he didn’t experience anything while he was stationed in Germany and Japan except the fat life of a pogue. He wasn’t even against the war until he called back to duty and disrupted his cushy life in New York City.

    “I enlisted when I was 18. I was homeless, living in a tent, selling psychedelic mushrooms to make money to survive. I was set up by the police department and was given the choice to enlist or face prosecution,” Chiroux recalls.

    He enlisted when he was 19, he was homeless and living in a tent because he was told to find a job. Selling mushrooms at an elementary school playground isn’t a job. And the police aren’t Army recruiters setting kids up to force them into the Army. Only brain dead hippies would believe that shit.

    “When I came to the conclusion that we hadn’t just made a mistake but were and continued to be in violation of international law, it was imperative that I not deploy to Iraq.”

    More accurately, when he came to the conclusion that fulfilling his commitment to the country would inconvenience him greatly, Matthis decided it was imperative that he would not deploy.

    It’s idiots like these two peckerwoods who made veterans hide their service for decades after Vietnam. Peckerwoods like Ward Reilly, Doug Zachary and Bill Perry.

    Thanks to the folks who sent the screen shots and links.

  • Manning supporters under surveillance

    The folks who are supporting the traitor Private Bradley Manning, currently sitting in prison at Quantico, VA awaiting trial, the guy who turned over classified documents to the peace movement caricatures at Wikileaks are being watched by the FBI, they tell the media. From Associated Press;

    The Bradley Manning Support Network said Wednesday that David House of Cambridge, Mass., was detained Nov. 3 at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport and questioned extensively about his support for the Army private. Manning is being held at the Marine Corps Base in Quantico, Va., awaiting trial.

    According to Glen Greenwald, this is the second time it’s happened;

    In July of this year, U.S. citizen Jacob Appelbaum, a researcher and spokesman for WikiLeaks, was detained for several hours at the Newark airport after returning from a trip to Holland, and had his laptop, cellphones and other electronic products seized — all without a search warrant, without being charged with a crime, and without even being under investigation, at least to his knowledge.

    Yeah, well, the “at least to his knowledge” is shit we NCOs all heard from our privates right before they got their asses thrown in the lock up.

    He was interrogated at length about WikiLeaks, and was told by the detaining agents that he could expect to be subjected to the same treatment every time he left the country and attempted to return to the U.S.

    Of course, the anti-war Left disillusioned with the “Hope and Change” they got a long time ago, are convinced that they’re being intimidated by government forces. They don’t mention Obama’s name out of fear of being accused of being racists;

    The Federal Government has the authority to conduct border searches of people entering the country that are far broader than for those inside the country, and such searches require no search warrant. The Government has that power in order to prevent security threats from entering the country, but here, they are clearly exploiting and abusing it

    So it’s Bush-era policy that’s oppressing them. If it was me (and it wouldn’t be), I’d just behave myself. David House has visited Manning three times since Manning’s detention at Quantico – I guess it only makes sense to make sure House isn’t acting as a courier when he leaves the country.

    If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  • An update to my favorite story of all time

    Joshua’s coming home…thanks to an army of robotic judges at the refugee board….

    Canada’s Immigration and Refugee Board has rejected granting refugee status to Joshua Key, 32, a deserter from the U.S. army who says he is haunted by atrocities he saw committed by American soldiers in Iraq.

    “I find that the claimant is neither a . . . refugee nor a person in need of protection,” ruled Ken Atkinson of the board.

    The negative ruling means the Canada Border Services Agency could move to deport Key.

    From a post I wrote about his book:

    “Joshua Key and his book are more full of fecal matter than the honey wagon trucks sucking out the port-o-johns at Ft Polk. I’d rather have a suppository applied with a tomahawk missile than read this book again.”

    From the article about his impending return:

    After fleeing to Canada, Key wrote The Deserter’s Tale, a book in which he described seeing two civilians decapitated and their bodies desecrated.

    “There were American soldiers kicking the heads around like soccer balls,” Key wrote.

    Key told the board he joined the Army after a recruiter told him he would be assigned as a bridge builder and not deployed in combat.

    His unit entered Kuwait on April 10, 2003, and within weeks, he was in Ramadi, Iraq, where he said his duties included conducting night-time raids of Iraqi homes in search of weapons.

    During these raids, he said, he witnessed several instances of unjustified abuse, unwarranted detention, humiliation and looting by fellow soldiers, much of which was ignored by his superior officers. He said that at other times in Iraq, he witnessed unwarranted physical abuse, including the killing of apparently innocent civilians.

    Anyway, I am glad this dirtbag is finally getting booted. About friggin time. He’s been procreating with some Canadian broad like mad, so prepare yourself for the inevitable “how could they seperate this hero from his children” story. My response would be to ask how many of you cried about thepile of fetuses that David Bellavia was forced to boogie board down in Iraq. pile of fetuses that David Bellavia was forced to boogie board down in Iraq.

    (I could live to 150 years old and still be most proud of my 3 minutes as the producer of “Blue Falcon Radio”. Great moment in the history of radio.)

    BTW- Here is the lying sack of shit crying on Canadian TV.

    Thanks to Olga for the link.

  • More Matthis lies

    Someone sent us this link to a World Can’t Wait propaganda piece about yet another anti-recruiting campaign at some unknown school during which Matthis;

    …talked about being given a choice of jail or the Army at age 17, seeing the world as an Army journalist and telling the story the Army wanted told, before successfully refusing orders to Iraq and becoming an anti-war activist.

    Yeah, we all know that Matthis was a high school graduate when he was arrested for selling mushrooms near a grade school playground when he was given the option of going to trial or joining the Army. He was 19 at the time, not 17. The difference of course is that he was supposed to be more of a grown up than he tries to relate to the easily-influenced children in the high school. This time, he was facing a real pound-you-in-the-ass prison stint instead of just the previous basketball games at the juvenile detention center.

    The WCW article continues;

    …a couple of students said to their classmates that they aren’t going to sign up for the military, after hearing about the reality of these wars of occupation.

    How did they hear about the “realities” of the wars? From Matthis? That’s a joke. How could he tell the realities of the war from his perch in Germany and Japan?

    Someone else wrote to me that the Left acts like the wars have ended because of their inactivity lately. I wrote back that this is their hibernation period every year. Since the old hippies depend on the participation of college students, those students are more focused on their Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks than wars just now.

    They’ll gear back up in the Spring when the anniversary of the Iraq War rolls around.