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Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • Matthis at Tufts

    For some pointless reason, Tufts Daily, a student newspaper at Tufts University (which for some reason I thought was a conservative, traditional college), published an article by Alexa Sasanow entitled “Veteran Matthis Chiroux speaks out against the US military“. Notice it’s not wars he “speaks out against” anymore.

    You can read the whole article for yourself and you’ll recognize they newest Matthis line that it’s the military that’s the problem now, not the wars. Probably because he can’t speak to the war anymore, since it’s been proven that he’s never seen a war. But that doesn’t stop from making people believe he’s been to one without saying he has;

    Chiroux enlisted in the army soon after he graduated from high school, but not because he wanted to: He got into trouble with the police and was given the choice between being prosecuted as an adult in federal court or enlisting.

    “I always say, I’m living proof that we do not have an all?volunteer army,” he said.

    Yeah, he volunteered – he had a choice whether he should sell drugs at a grade school playground or not, and then he had a choice whether he wanted to take responsibility for selling drugs and go to jail, or volunteer to join the Army. A lot of kids his age (18 so how else would he have prosecuted if not as an adult?) don’t get the opportunity to choose.

    After his five years in the army, during which he served as an army strategic communicator and journalist, touring in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan and the Philippines, Chiroux returned to the United States in 2007. He got an apartment in Brooklyn with the one person he knew in New York, a fellow veteran. The two engaged mostly in reckless behavior after returning to civilian life, Chiroux said.

    “I was drinking excessively and being very physically impulsive,” he said. “One Sunday morning, I’d been up all night with a couple of women I was hanging out with — it was around 9 a.m. — and somehow we managed to get up on top of a skyscraper right next to Ground Zero. I was wasted and I remember standing on the edge of that building and looking down at the ground and seeing the wall stretch down from the tips of my toes to the sidewalk, 68 stories and the wind blowing. I went off like a rocket and it took me a while until I finally realized I may be having a good time, but there’s something wrong with me.”

    Such self?awareness is difficult for many veterans to manage, Chiroux said, particularly if they’re dealing with post?traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), as a reported 319,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are. Chiroux’s New York apartment?mate is one of them.

    Yeah, PTSD put him on the roof edge. Even though he’d never witnessed a traumatic event that would cause PTSD. That’s why earlier he mentioned that everyone in the military has PTSD, so you could some sympathy for the ledge-balanced clown. Previously, he’s said that his PTSD was from interviewing real soldiers and hearing their stories. I guess he’s refined his condition.

    He continues on blaming TAH for IVAW booting his scrawney ass;

    While Chiroux had served for a year on the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War, he has since parted ways with the organization after receiving a lot of backlash from military communities for last March burning an American flag in Lafayette Park at an anti?war rally.

    Actually, he left because he’d succeeded in alienating a large number of IVAW members with his behavior for more than two years. I mean if you alienate guys like TJ Buonomo and Geoff “Stolen Valor” Millard, you’ve really pissed a lot of people off.

    “They buried my friends under the flag and that’s why I burned it. That flag killed my friends; soldiers had that flag on their arm when torturing people at Abu Ghraib,” he continued. “The military, they get to give you a symbol, tell you what it means and send you off to die with it. They’re going to wrap your story in that and burn the truth beneath it — why wouldn’t I burn it?”

    I’m sure Matthis had friends buried with the flag. And if he did, he’d know that’s no way to honor their memory. But it all so much more about Matthis and his Ward Reilly image.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Dahlia Wasfi the lying POS

    Dahlia Wasfi was born in Iraq and fled the Hussein government with her family when she was six years old. In recent years, instead of blaming the Hussein government for conditions in Iraq, she’s found it more profitable to rage against the US. In this video which someone sent me, she makes the outrageous claim that since World War Two, 90% of causalities of wars have been civilians. You’ll notice that she’s on Iran’s PressTV – the English language press arm of the Iranian government.

    Ya know, if you factor in The Sudan’s persecution of Christians, the Rwandan genocide, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Vietnamese extermination of opponents, she might be right. But, of course, her assertion is that 90% of the casualty in US wars have been civilians.

    It shouldn’t surprise you that Wasfi was a vociferous supporter of Carl Webb and his philosophy that IVAW should support the killing and maiming of US troops. The length of time that Wasfi spent in Iraq during the war there can almost be measured in days – she spent three months there in 2006 and plays the expert. She banks on your acceptance of her expertise on the subject of Iraq based merely on her parentage.

    Every bio that I can find on her says the same thing about her education “Dr. Wasfi graduated from Swarthmore College in 1993 with a B.A. in Biology, and in 1997 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.” Graduated with what degree? She calls herself a doctor, but it seems to me that she mention what in what endeavor was her doctorate. See the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine has several areas of study, some have little to do with medicine.

    Given her activism, I’m guessing that whatever her degree was in, it probably wasn’t as profitable as yapping about shit with which she’s unfamiliar.

  • The VFW PAC issue revisited

    My friends have weighed in on the VFW PAC issue, which I started last week. Mr Wolf from Blackfive has a post at Breitbart’s Big Peace and he’s still advocating that you to burn your VFW membership card. Well, I can’t do that – mine is aluminum. Yes, I’ve been a member that long – nearly twenty years as a Life Member.

    That guy who calls himself Mothax, has a really well-written post up at The Burn Pit about the pitfalls of a VSO trying to remain non-partisan in a political environment. He approaches the subject from an historical perspective without dick-punching the VFW.

    Me? I’m sticking it out for reform of the VFW PAC. I don’t know what their procedure is for endorsing a candidate, but obviously it’s wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. But, I don’t think that the answer is to disband a hundred-year-old organization. I’m also sure that organizations like VoteVets and IAVA are salivating at the thought of of the 2.1 million members of VFW, and their dues, in the wind.

    And, admit it, all of those guys who wrote that THIS is the reason they won’t join the VFW now, were never going to join anyway. I’ve seen the power of blogs in relation to certain organizations, and I’m putting my money on the folks who stick rather than the folks who bail on the VFW.

    Mr. Wolf says the VFW has kicked the can down the road by putting off for the next convention what they should be doing today. It’s only kicking the can down the road if that’s what we let them do. Mr. Wolf has a point, and I’ll admit that resigning my membership was my first reaction – but then I realized that it would probably do more damage than good.

    It also worries me that some of the leftists have joined in the feeding frenzy.

    But I’ll tell you what, as a twenty-year Life Member of the VFW, when a receptionist at the VFW PAC takes my name and number, and I’m like the VFW’s last ally on the internet…they’d better call me back. They’ve already called Bev Perlson back and she’s not even a member.

  • More Operation Recovery video

    Someone sent us this video of the “Operation Recovery” farce in DC last week. This is Jason Hurd, one of the few remaining actual Iraq veterans. Hurd testified at the Winter Soldier hearings in Silver Spring, MD nearly three years ago that he ALMOST shot an elderly Iraqi woman carrying groceries. He claims that he relives that incident almost every night…and then he broke into tears because he ALMOST shot the woman. He didn’t shoot her, but he ALMOST shot her.

    He also wished that I would get an incurable disease and die. So much for my “right to heal”.