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Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Letters from IVAW

    As a query to IVAW’s Jose Vasquez, the Executive Director, I sent this picture of Matthis and asked Jose if this is the official position of IVAW. Vasquez responded that I should know better. That “Matthis marches to his own drum.” He also added that I should be heartened by the fact that there’s a whole new Board of Directors who will rein in some of this behavior.

    Isn’t that what we were told last year after the election of the Board? The Board upon which Matthis currently sits? The same board that lets shit like this stand;

    “…a lot of people in this country feel like the US army is some place to go and make a man of yourself. I am less of a man today for having served in the US military.” – Matthis Chiroux Afghanistan War Veteran

    There are lots of reasons that Matthis is less of a man, none of those reasons have to do with the military – except that lie he propagates about being an Afghanistan veteran.

    IVAW won’t do anything about Matthis, they’re too busy pushing the Code Pink agenda on Gaza and something about immigration. Nothing that has to do with the troops. Apparently, the only statement about the troops from IVAW is coming from Matthis.

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  • Under the Hood Cafe is in worse shape than we thought

    Last week, Matthis announced his intention to take a semester off from college to help out the IVAW coffeehouse Under the Hood Cafe. Who knew that announcement would have an immediate effect on the cafe, as shown in this photo;

    I guess the project is in the dump(st)er.

  • Washington Post: Top Secret America

    The Washington Post has published an interactive website that seeks to uncover the secrecy of the American defense network pronouncing that it’s “A hidden world, growing beyond control”. The defense network is a little worried about the Washington Post’s story, since obviously, it exposes some companies to espionage and terrorism that were never exposed before.

    The Pentagon warned contractors last week about the article with letters like this one that I found in my inter-web travels;

    After quickly going through some of the stuff that the Washington Post put up online, I noticed that one of the two main “reporters” on this article is William Arkin. You remember Arkin, right? back in early 2007, Arkin wrote a column about how the US troops don’t appreciate regular Americans enough. That they really have cushy jobs and get more pay and “obscene amenities” than they deserve. At the time, I did some research on Arkin’s background. This is what I found about him on Peace.net – where his bio has disappeared;

    His bio claims he was an intel weinie who “engaged in a number of covert intelligence collection projects” which means someone let him debrief an infantry patrol occasionally – which is probably why he hates real soldiers. Why would an intelligence analyst go to work for Greenpeace as their “military specialist”?

    That article has understandably disappeared from the internet, so has the one in which he called our troops mercenaries. He was a pogue back in the 70’s in Berlin for a few years, so how does that make him an expert on defense policy? Well, because after his service, he worked for Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch and his email address links back to the “Institute for Global Communications” – the parent of Peace.net and Labor.net so that makes him an expert on those opposed to our defense policies.

    Later that year, Arkin was disappointed that he wasn’t invited to the Milblog Conference. Aside from the fact that no one gets a personal invitation, why would the milblogs invite the idiot pogue who doesn’t appreciate the troops.

    There’s more on the Post toy for hippies at RedState.

    Bill O’Reilly, tracked down Arkin in Vermont back in 2007, probably the last worthwhile thing that O’Reilly ever did;

  • This Whittenberg guy needs real help

    Whittenberg

    The guy in the picture above is former IVAW member Bobby Whittenberg. Bobby is an actual veteran of the Iraq War. He has a Purple Heart to prove it – one reason I’ve been reluctant to say much about him. I’m convinced he’s in need of serious help.

    Whittenberg has been heavily influenced by VFP thug Doug Zachary and former IVAW member Carl Webb and more recently, Matthis Chiroux.

    Here are some screen shots someone sent me of Whittenberg’s announcement of his resignation;




    Of course, Whittenberg couldn’t let the IVAW convention go by without a shout to his socialist buddies;

    And in another attempt to plea for help, Whittenberg burns a flag – away from public view and after a soliloquy that borders on insanity.

    And, oh, this hated, imperialist US government sends Whittenberg a disability check every month right on time. And he cashes each and every one of them.

    This guy clearly needs an intervention, but because he fit the image that IVAW wanted to portray of the nut-job veteran, he was encouraged. And now he’s out there on his own and the mad dog finally bit his master. And like Casey Porter said, now Whittenberg is having an impact on younger soldiers.

    So, let’s hear your excuses for this one, IVAW.

  • And…it begins

    Senators John Kerry and Richard Luger expressed dounts doubts that this administration has a clear strategy to end the war in Afghanistan according to the Associated Press.

    Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said it’s not clear that the administration has a solid strategy for prevailing, and the panel’s ranking Republican, Richard Lugar of Indiana, decried “a lack of clarity” about U.S. war goals.

    Their complaints were aired at a hearing in which the administration’s special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, acknowledged that the way ahead remains in doubt.

    And we wonder why an enemy who should be broken and bedridden by now is still mounting more ferocious attacks than ever before. It’s because jackasses like Kerry and Luger give them hope. Well, and apparently the Obama Administration isn’t averse to giving them a glimmer now and then, too. We’ve spent almost a year telegraphing our intent to increase the numbers of troops there – something we hope to complete by next month. next month will be a year since McChrystal made his initial request for more troops, by the way.

    We’re using air support 75% less than we were three years ago. And we have a president that’s just looking for any excuse to abandon Afghanistan. Now, John Kerry, who probably has memories of hunting Taliban in Pakistan last Christmas whie George Bush was president seared in his increasingly feeble mind (he’d still be president if he had won in 2004, you know).

    Luger ain’t much better, either. I know some of you predicted withdrawal by November, I’m coming around to that same conclusion. It’d rescue all of the votes from the chanting class which Democrats are slowly losing. And Matthis will declare victory.

  • Another resignation at IVAW

    Mike Kern, one of James Branum’s clients at Fort Hood, has decided to throw in the towel. He seems to be leaving because, like his buddy, Bobby Whittenburg, the group isn’t radical enough for him. And their money is spent on things other than, well, other than things Mike likes. The following was sent to me by one of my spies that IVAW hasn’t caught yet;

    If you’re wondering if Army Sergeant is upset, she is;

    Obviously, Ward “Stolen Valor” Reilly is back to abusing substances since he does his bi-polar act and simply doesn’t know what’s going on..

    By the way, I got the FOIA on Army Sergeant today, and for those who’ve been wondering,, her overseas duty stations are limited to Germany. So much for the double-oh-seven-and-three-quarters stuff. The Army sent the request back pretty quick, too – almost as if they were glad to do it.

    I have another 15 or so screen shot of the conversation over Kerns though and mostly it becomes a discussion of raising money for Under the Hood, not much concern about Kern. Bill Perry (glad you like the picture I took of you, Bill), of course, tries to convince IVAW to send some folks to the VFP lobster dinner and shame them out of a few thousand bucks. James Branum joins in when the mention of money comes up. My computer is acting up and it’s so slow uploading .jpgs I’ll have to get to it later.

  • Hide your children, Killeen

    Someone sent me this screen shot of Matthis navel-gazing. So Matthis is thinking about a change of scenery to play with the goofballs at Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen outside the gates of Fort Hood, TX. I don’t see it actually. Killeen isn’t metropolitan enough for an urbane city dweller like Matthis.

    In this Facebook missive, he wonders what happened to the IVAW of the Winter Soldier days – he joined AFTER Winter Soldier when it began it’s precipitous fall from an actual anti-war group to an arm of the socialists and ne’er do wells. Just before all of the real Iraq veterans left the organization and left it an empty shell of cowards, drama queens and people like Matthis who were more concerned with their own comforts than actually opposing the war from a practical point-of-view.

    Am I the only one who noticed that the exodus from IVAW began soon after Matthis joined? Of course, I fully support his foray into the POS Under the Hood cafe – he can probably destroy it faster than I can.