This ain't Hell, but you can see it from here

Category: Antiwar crowd

  • Generals and pricks

    Yesterday at a Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee hearing, Brigadier General Michael Walsh was testifying on the Louisiana coastal restoration process in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Here’s the General’s Biography;

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    The General was testifying to Barbara Boxer, the junior senator from California. Here’s Barbara Boxer’s bio from her website;

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    Before the General got more than few words into the testimony, the junior senator from California interrupted him;

    If she was a man, I’d call Boxer a prick, but she’s not a man and I can’t call her what we call a prick that is a woman. But my point is; the general worked a damn sight harder to get where he is – I mean look at that bio – than some woman prick who has been in Congress and then the Senate. Some prick woman who has been an “advocate” all of her life – advocating for her ego. While this general is saving the world so people like Boxer can be pricks to him.

    Now look at the general’s chest (I searched for a picture of him in his greens, but I couldn’t find one…sorry it’s so fuzzy);

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    That’s General Walsh’s experience on his chest while that Boxer woman is sitting on her experience. Just for the record, I think generals are included in that “we support the troops” thing I hear all of the time.

    This post was done on the request of our favorite fan at the Pentagon.

  • Embracing the Phony and the Farcical: The VoteVets story

    If you have not read Part I of my VoteVets series which covers Jon Soltz, you should do so before reading this.

    As my esteemed coblogger is oft to say, VoteVets is not a veterans organization. For every 20 members they have, even VoteVets admits that only 1 is a veteran of OEF/OIF. While they masquarade as veterans advocates, the issues they champion rarely even deal with veteran or military issues, unless it happens to coincide with their actual mission of shilling for Democratic candidates.

    And a compliant media has allowed them to be fairly successful at it. My first run in with this band of degenerates was from the 2006 Virginia Senatorial campaign when they ran this disengenuous commercial against George Allen:
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  • “You’re pushing women! You’re pushing women!”

    TSO sent me this;

    Code Pink took their street fair to Israel the other day and ran into some Israeli police. I’ll have the video up in a minute, but first let me explain a little bit about what you’ll see. First Lil Suzie Benjamin suddenly has relatives who suffered in the Holocaust to lend herself some credibility – you know like folks who come here and try to get creds on military issues by telling us that their nephew’s neighbor’s grandfather watched the History Channel on Memorial Day.

    Then (at about 1:30 in the video) Tighe Barry (Suzie’s poodle), Ann Wright and Suze try to push through Israeli police barriers. The police push back (duh) while Tighe has to tell the police “you’re pushing women, you’re pushing women….” probably because none of the women the Israeli cops are pushing look like women in Israel (well, speaking from my own personal experience).

    Tighe is totally faking (he’s such a drama queen). He might have got conked on his noggin but you can’t see any blood or marks. So he lays on the pavement and writhes like a two-year-old so Suzie will touch him.

    Just so you recognize him in the video, this is Tighe last year at the Code Pink Mothers’ Day;
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    Here’s the video;

    Now we know why Tighe Barry left Hollywood and took up with the Code Pink Street Theater Company – he’s such a bad actor.

  • Odd and Ends

    Today In Military History
    Battle of Civitate: Papal-Italian-Lombard Coalition Army Beaten By Normans
    Battle of Breed’s Hill (not Bunker): Whites of Lobsterbacks’ Eyes Discerned
    Last Public Execution in France by Guillotine: Crowd Goes Wild!

    Also, my brother sent me a picture of my niece, read the shirt she is wearing in southern New Jersey.  Maybe she’s the one that firebombed the IVAW bus.
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  • Pick a story, Millard

    I’m sure my regular readers will remember Geof Millard who I spent some bandwidth on last year. It seems he’s playing the part of my whack-a-mole again. Thanks to reader Mary who dropped off a link to a Salon.com story which warns that “Neo-Nazis Are in the Army Now“. It’s a fairly poorly researched article that ignores the facts to project fantastic stories – much like Jon Soltz and the rest of the Left does these days.

    But, of course, when they’re having a tough time finding someone to tattle on the military, the Leftists at Salon go to IVAW, and Geof Millard is IVAW’s self proclaimed expert on racism in the military. He’s been telling a story since before Winter Soldier, as quoted by Aaron Glatz;

    That evening, Millard said he was in a briefing where the chain of command was informed of the shooting.

    “After the officer in charge briefed it to the general in a very calm manner, a commander turned in his chair to the entire division-level staff, and he said—and I quote—‘If these f——g hajis learned to drive, this s–t wouldn’t happen.’”

    Millard said he looked around the room at the other officers and the other enlisted men, mostly higher ranking than himself. “I didn’t see one dissenting body language, one disagreeing head nod,” he said. “Everyone was in agreement that it’s true, if these f—–g hajis learned to drive, this s–t wouldn’t happen. I couldn’t believe it, but it was true. That stayed with me the rest of my tour.”

    Well, just for Salon, Millard changed the story a bit;

    Geoffrey Millard, an organizer for Iraq Veterans Against the War, served in Iraq for 13 months, beginning in 2004, as part of the 42nd Infantry Division. He recalls Gen. George Casey, who served as the commander in Iraq from 2004 to 2007, addressing a briefing he attended in the summer of 2005 at Forward Operating Base, outside Tikrit. “As he walked past, he was talking about some incident that had just happened, and he was talking about how ‘these stupid fucking hajjis couldn’t figure shit out.’ And I’m just like, Are you kidding me? This is Gen. Casey, the highest-ranking guy in Iraq, referring to the Iraqi people as ‘fucking hajjis.’” (A spokesperson for Casey, now the Army Chief of Staff, said the general “did not make this statement.”)

    “The military is attractive to white supremacists,” Millard says, “because the war itself is racist.”

    Now, it’s General Casey, and he just passed by Millard and made the statement. Funny how much better it sounds now that phony soldier Millard has had 18 months to work on his narrative, ain’t it? I know it didn’t happen because the General Casey version would have made it to the Winter Soldier testimony – and it didn’t.

    First of all, there’s nothing offensive about the word “hadji”. Proof? OK, here’s a picture I took in Bethesda, MD last year. Bethesda is the most politically-correct town in the country – would they tolerate this on Wisconsin Avenue (the main street that leads to Georgetown in DC)?

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    Secondly, Millard; pick a story and stick to it – this is too easy. can’t you give me a challenge? Millard began by lying about his backpain in the Army and when he couldn’t get a medical retirement, he went AWOL and got busted for it – then he promoted himself to sergeant again and gave himself a stack of medals all after he got out and forged his DD214 to reflect the cool stuff. He also broke the first rule of This Ain’t Hell – he awarded himself a CIB that he didn’t earn. So why is Salon bothering to interview him? Because he brings them the message they want to hear.

    We’ll have more on the Salon article later, I promise. It’s a pretty long piece, and I’ve got some links to find.

  • IVAW’s Duncan/Strandlof on AC 360

    Last night on CNN, Anderson Cooper interviewed phony soldier, IVAW member, VoteVets TV star, Richard Strandlof/Duncan. Somehow, he thinks that the good he did for veterans should outweigh his deception.

    Doug Sterner from Home of Heroes (who has also visited here at TAH) is also in the video and he sums it up well – John Wayne Gacy did some good too as a clown, but it hardly outweighs his serial killings.

    I don’t understand why none of these supposed news outlets won’t focus on the REAL issue here – the anti-war movement attracts an inordinate number of phonies and fakes and the anti-war types think they can just make excuses and make the whole thing go away until next time another one inevitably pops up. It’s been that way for decades – and the anti-war crowd doesn’t seem interested in vetting the messenger as long as the fake message they bring is compelling.

    While I commend CNN for finally facing up to the story, they only gave Strandlof an opportunity to be a sympathetic figure by blaming his undiagnosed mental disorder and announce that he in no way profited from his deception. He may not have benefited, but he certainly cost all veterans a measure of honor and credibility.

    Thanks to all of the people who reminded me in my email this morning about the interview. Especially the IVAW refugees.

    In other phony soldier news, last night, the daughter of our fake general came by and somehow turned around her father’s fakery into something that I did. Apparently, I “dig up dirt”. She’s upset that her picture is posted “surounded [sic] by all this negativity” – never mind that she’s standing next to a Private First Class dressed as a general in the picture.

    It seems she ought to be more upset at her father for putting her in the position of defending the indefensible. She’s asked that I remove her picture, and I’ll do it, just because she asked and out of respect for her rank and her service, but not out of fear of a lawsuit. I don’t have to be sued to get me to do the right thing. Next time ask nicely, El-Tee.

    For the record, I’ve always known she’s an officer along with her brother, but I never mentioned their names or their duty stations, or their units since it was their father that’s the criminal. Her threats and demeaning language towards me won’t stop the FBI and DVA OIG investigations against her father. Nor will it stop me from busting the next phony.

  • Strandlof/Duncan out of jail

    Everyone’s favorite IVAW member/VoteVets blogger this year, Rick Strandlof-Duncan, is up for a breath of fresh air today according to the Denver Post;

    The man now known as the fake veteran for duping politicians, veterans and advocate groups into believing he’s a wounded Iraq veteran will be released from jail Tuesday after pleading guilty to two misdemeanor traffic citations.

    Judge Jonathan L. Walker sentenced Rick Strandlof to 20 days in jail with credit for time served and one year of unsupervised probation. Strandlof must also pay a $150 in court fines.

    Strandlof was being held on a $1,000 misdemeanor traffic warrant since his arrest May 12.

    Does this sound like contrition?

    In a previous interview with 9Wants to Know, Strandlof admitted he did not always tell the truth when he fought for veterans’ rights and claimed to have served three tours of duty in Iraq.

    “Always tell the truth”? How about “ever told the truth”? Even his name was a lie. He probably wasn’t even gay…well, until now.

    In another Denver Post story earlier in the week, they claimed he was still being investigated by the FBI;

    …while the FBI is investigating possible fraud, no charges have been filed.

    That’s probably because “his heart was in the right place” to use IVAW’s Garret Reppenhagen’s words;

    Besides, Duncan’s intentions seemed straightforward. He sent care packages to troops in Iraq. He stood up for homeless veterans in Colorado Springs. He advanced his anti-war politics by connecting with like-minded candidates.

    He even launched his own organization, the Colorado Veterans Alliance, which he said represented 32,000 veterans on a massive mailing list — though the only visible members seemed to be a cadre of local vets.

    He certainly talked the talk. Duncan mingled easily in the military milieu. And in some ways, he walked the walk.

    “It seems like his heart was in the right place,” said Reppenhagen, 33. “He was a really hard worker. He did a lot of good by raising a lot of awareness, but then you find out that he’s a fraud.”

    “Talked the talk”, “walked the walk”? Yeah, as long as it was anti-war gibberish, he fit right in with the rest of them. But, that’s the IVAW we’ve all come to know. And apparently the Colorado Springs justice system. Maybe there are two Americas.

    Even Common Ills, the anti-war blog can add two and two;

    This ain’t Hell, but you can see it from here is a right wing website and, if you click here, you will be taken to their post on Rick Duncan and see him at the top of the post wearing his Winter Soldier IVAW t-shirt. Scroll down and you will see his bio at the Iraq Veterans Against the War website. Scroll down just a bit further and you will see how they disappeared it after it turned out Rick Duncan was Rick Strandlof and not a veteran or ever a member of the military. Only members would have the ability to post to IVAW’s website. There’s your answer. He posted there and he posted that he was a member. So he’s a member.

    Thanks to Mr Wolf for the tip.

  • Remembering old IVAW friends

    Since TSO is getting threatening phone calls from one of our old friends from IVAW, I thought I’d bring back memories by telling you what Adam Kokesh has been up to lately. I know I’ve mentioned that he was contemplating running for a Congressional seat in New Mexico next year, so for some reason he won’t be writing on his “Revolutionary Patriot” blog anymore and he’s focusing on the run. Here’s his new website;

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    He seems to be toning down his image a bit. Probably a good idea. But I went through his “About Adam” page and I can’t seem to find anything about the IVAW. He’s not ashamed is he?

    He also mentions that he was promoted to sergeant – but he doesn’t mention that he was busted for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from the war. He was a corporal when his term of service ended. We’ve already settled that.

    He mentions some activism;

    In addition to addressing the kind of suffering he experienced first-hand in Fallujah, he has organized to help veterans struggling with PTSD, railed against 4th Amendment violations, and stood up against the Federal Reserve.

    Yes, he organized veterans to hang out in the IVAW clubhouse on Princeton Place, take xanax and gin, store their urine in a refrigerator, and engage in paranoid rants at the police. But I don’t think any of that is usually accepted as treatment for PTSD. But here’s a screenshot of the xanax and gin rant for posterity;

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    He doesn’t mention that he dropped hate literature all over the GWU campus trying to frame a conservative student group. Of course, he skated on that charge. Just like he’s skated on all of his antics. Probably because of Daddy’s money.

    I don’t see any mention of Karaoke night with Code Pink, either. Or his arrest in DC for putting up posters after he was ordered not to put up posters by a DC cop.

    He does mention his discharge though – except that he says his discharge was “Honorable”, when actually it was “General under honorable conditions”.

    I’m beginning to think that Kokesh is embarrassed by the truth about his past.