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Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • Anti-war movement has petered out

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    The anti-war crowd had a protest yesterday at the White House called the “No You Can’t” rally. It’s gone virtually unnoticed by the media (and unnoticed by me, too – I was pimpin’ my crib yesterday). Despite being headlined by the most famous of the moonbat ranks, even the LA Times wasn’t impressed by the 300 participants;

    “People are burned out,” explained the rally’s organizer, Laurie Dobson. As she and other antiwar activists struggle to remake their movement, they also acknowledge there are obstacles.

    “We’re fighting a harder fight right now,” said Dobson, who said antiwar efforts had been upstaged by the battle for healthcare reform and had been hampered by the bad economy. She and others also acknowledge a certain awkwardness: Activists now find themselves up against the same politician many of them helped elect.

    “The peace movement has a new adversary in front of them,” said Tom Hayden, a former California state senator who was a leading critic of the Vietnam War. “He’s intelligent, speaks the language of the peace movement and is trying to reach out to the center-left of the country with his message. It’s much more formidable to argue with Barack Obama than it was with Bush or Cheney.”

    Hayden said many of the activists who once used antiwar protest to convey their contempt of President George W. Bush have been reluctant to criticize Obama, who, while he was a candidate, made much of his opposition to the war in Iraq.

    Some media outlets are pumping up the numbers of protesters to 1500, but even on Matthis Chiroux’ Facebook page World Can’t Wait admits to only 300;

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    So Brower is still tossing shoes – that’s so last year, Elaine. But that’s kind of the story of the whole peace movement, isn’t it?

  • Chiroux and Brower; being something they ain’t

    One of my spies who has infiltrated Chiroux’s inner circle on Facebook (he won’t “friend” me for some reason he can’t explain) sent me this video that he linked;

    In the beginning of the video, Chiroux says “I know from experience that [the war in Afghanistan] is genocide” – “From experience”? Sitting at Baskin-Robbins on Bagram for six days (give or take a few hours)? Of course, none of the hippies to whom he’s speaking care – as long as he wears his BDU jacket and stands in front of them, that’s all they need.

    He says he’s a veteran of “the situation”. What situation, Matthis? Does he mean “the situation” in Germany and Japan, because those are the only places he’s been.

    Elaine Brower screeches that she doesn’t want her son to have to go back to the war. That sounds like something she needs to take up with her son. Last I knew, he’s a staff sergeant, so he’s reenlisted a few times – no one is making him go back. I’m sure he’s a smart guy and could get a job somewhere else, if he wanted.

    Brower wants to be seen as a victim of the government’s war – she’s not. She’s a victim of her son’s personal decisions. So was my mother when I was in the Army. Chiroux wants to be regarded as an eye witness to something he’s never seen. He’s another Ward Reilly. 30 years from now Chiroux is going to be a scraggly old man clinging to the days he was drilling hairy-legged hippie chicks.

    Of course, these two need the war. The last thing they really want is for it to end.

    By the way, someone tell Bill Perry (he commented on the Facebook entry) that I think it’s hilarious that he’s using a picture I took of him as his avatar on Facebook. I’m glad he’s a fan of my work.

  • Millard explains Webb’s expulsion

    A couple of our resident IVAW refugees sent me screen shots of the entire statement that Geoff (Stolen Valor) Millard wrote and posted (somewhere) on their website explaining why the board voted to expell Carl Webb. Here’s the first part;

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    Millard goes on to explain why they banned Casey Porter for the remainder of his lifetime for advocating for the expulsion of Webb. I guess Millard doesn’t realize that Porter taking the extreme actions that he took were necessitated by the board’s inability to take decisive action against Webb.

    Millard is steeped in the mantra of “racist Americans” – if I remember correctly, his major in college was African-American studies. In his typical liberal fashion, Millard, like the Army in the case of Fort Hood murderer Major Hasan, bent over backwards to excuse Webb’s behavior based solely on Webb’s race. Um, Geoff, there are other Black members of IVAW who don’t advocate for killing our troops.

    It’s as if the Little Rascals grew up and formed a club.

  • Chiroux tells his legions to be an insurgency

    One of my readers took up my challenge to “friend” Chiroux and returns with this intel. Of course, Obama drove Chiroux to this – Obama must be feeling like Nixon about now;
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  • And another one’s gone (Updated)

    The word out on the street is that another combat veteran member of IVAW quit recently. Jesse Hamilton, who has been through This Ain’t Hell a few times (especially on this post about the Army Experience Center protest).

    Hamilton says that the IVAW leadership was too slow to act on Carl Webb, so he’s out of there. I think it’s pretty unfair of IVAW to boot Carl Webb and then ban Casey Porter for life for supporting the conclusion that the Board finally arrived at this week.

    Oh, and by the way, not only did the board boot Webb and ban Porter, they also voted to give this guy a letter of reprimand. So they had to balance out their exile of Carl Webb with two other punishments. Good for them.

    Oh, before I forget; Someone emailed me yesterday about Matthis Chiroux’ arrest at West Point the other day. He broke his leg the same weekend that I did, but I’ve been off crutches since July. Apparently, he was still leaning on his crutches Tuesday night when he was arrested and reports are that he was fake-limping while the cops hauled him off to make himself a more sympathetic figure. What a pussy drama queen.

    If anyone can get into his Facebook account (he won’t friend me), send me some screen shots – I hear his whining is hilarious.

    ADDED: Someone sent me a picture of Limp Dick’s arrest – put down your drinks;

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  • Coalition of moonbats decending on DC

    The Far Left smells weakness in the president’s speech last night (or money) and they’ve decided to have an “emergency” protest at the White House next Saturday, December 12th. It promises to be some real entertainment;

    Speakers include: Cynthia McKinney, Sen. Mike Gravel, Kathy Kelly, Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Phyllis Bennis, Rev. Graylan Hagler, Coy McKinney, Debra Sweet, Brian Becker, Mathis Chiroux, Lynne Williams, Hon. Betty Hall, Elaine Brower, Marian Douglas, Michael Knox, Ralph Lopez, Ron Fisher, and statements from Col. Ann Wright, Stephen Zunes and Granny D (turning 100).

    I see ANSWER, IVAW, World Can’t Wait, Greens, Code Pink, VFP, the Northeast Impeachment Coalition, a 100-year-old whose sole distinction is that she’s 100 and against war, and a guy they continue to call Senator even though he hasn’t been in office for nearly 20 years.

    Their timing sucks, though. Most of the college kids in town will either be at home or taking finals. It promises to be a reunion of the Bethesda chapter of MoveOn (if they can all get day passes from the nursing home) with stirring screeches from the podium.

  • Outside of West Point last night

    Our buddy DanNY, from Gathering of Eagles; New York sent along this report from Gathering of Eagles who faced down the anti-war crowd last night as they swooned outside of the gates of West Point. He found this video which includes our two friends Elaine Brower and Matthis Chiroux (who are seen together a lot lately…I’m just sayin’…).

    Is it me, or does Chiroux sound like he’s whining to his parents that his older brother won’t let him play the video game?

    The Left estimated their numbers at 250, so it was probably closer to thirty.

    Apparently 38 groups sent a letter to the president urging him to abandon our national security so they could feel better. Our experience here at This Ain’t Hell is that 38 antiwar groups = fifteen people using moonbat math.

    Far Left Representative Barbara Lee has promised her California constituency that she’ll oppose the surge in Congress. Isn’t that racist?

  • IVAW news

    I had a voice mail message this morning which reported that, to their credit, Carl Webb of the IVAW’s terrorist wing has finally been booted out of IVAW. I haven’t got any confirmation, yet, but I noticed his profile is gone.

    In yesterday’s IVAW post, I reprinted Brandon Neely’s letter to IVAW asking them to put pressure on the board to remove Carl Webb. In that letter, Neely also mentioned Matthis Chiroux as a reason he quit the organization. Since we’re fair and balanced here at TAH (snicker), here’s Chiroux’ email to Neely in response;

    You are so far out of reality. Your continued libelous and misleading statements serve only to alienate you. Rape is a pilar of war, and while I’m not guilty of it, our military is one million times over. I listened to an 18 year old Iraqi girl last weekend testify about her experience being systematically raped by U.S. Soldiers while detained in Baghdad along with the rest of the young women on her cell block. I highly doubt this was in isolated incident. I hope her story gets out, for her sake and for yours.

    Of course, as is his method of operation, Chiroux changes the subject from his own malfeasance to something totally unrelated, unsubstantiated and unsupported by facts. Of course, Chiroux can’t speak to the facts of our mission in Iraq since he’s never been there.

    Most of us would tend to give our troops the benefit of the doubt when it comes to testimony against them that’s not given in a court of law, but not Matthis because he’s experienced the nature of war fourth-hand. He knows the awful truth about our occupation of Germany for the last sixty years or so.

    Expect more on this later as it develops.

    Oh, and Carl, since we know you’ll be here later in the day when you wake up, please don’t get your tears and snot all over everything, OK?