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Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • Two more IVAW resignations

    I just got notification of three more IVAW members leaving. Here are two letters explaining their resignations to their fellows. First is Brandon Neely;

    I am former member of Iraq Veterans Against The War (IVAW). I resigned from IVAW a couple months ago when I noticed the organization as a whole going downwards. I feel now I should tell everyone why I left IVAW since there is an important vote on Tuesday by the board members of IVAW on weather to keep or kick Carl Webb out of the organization. I know some members may be aware of this situation and I also know a great percent have no clue what is or has gone on in IVAW. Many of you joined IVAW got a t-shirt and that was the last you heard from IVAW. IVAW has a set of rules know as the Code of Conduct which all members must abide by and the board members must enforce, but during my time in the organization I noticed neither of these things where going on. The Code of Conduct goes like this in IVAW: If we like you and we agree with your politics and you get media attention for yourself or IVAW its ok if you break the Code of Conduct. But if we don’t like you or agree with your politics or you don’t get media attention we are going to punish you for violating the Code of Conduct. I know of a couple incidents where this happened.

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  • IVAW’s internal dissent

    I’m not sure what SSG Thompson is trying to say in his profile at IVAW, maybe you folks can decipher it for me;

    matt1

  • Far Left gears up for Afganistan surge

    With the President finally gets off his narrow ass to properly staff and equip the war in Afghanistan, the Left sees an opportunity to raise their profile. IVAW in Seattle went out to a busy holiday shopping area and replayed their “First Casualty” theater for the crowds (thanks to Nucsnipe for the link)

    Yeah, that’s Joshua Simson who just came back from telling lies on television in Hugo Chavez’ Venezuela.

    Across the country, in New York, IVAW and their sundry defeatists are gearing up for the President’s announcement on Wednesday evening at West Point.

    The vigil is scheduled to go on rain or shine. Speakers will include Cheryl Wertz, executive director of Peace Action of New York State; Jose Vasquez, a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War; Michael Sussman, an Orange County civil rights lawyer; regional activist Jack Smith; and Elaine Brower, of Military Families Speak Out.

    Jose Vasquez and Elaine Brower are usual suspects for New York-area events. I wonder why Matthis Chiroux isn’t on the list – after all, he claims he’s an expert on Afghanistan. He even apologized for occupying Afghanistan – so it seems he’d be a natural to plead with the president.

    I hope someone reminds Jose Vasquez that he told us that he would have gone to Afghanistan, but the Army wouldn’t let him choose his war-time service and when the Army intended on sending him to Iraq, he filed for conscientious objector status and got out of the Army. He even reiterated that point in an email to me a few months ago. But, now that he’s ED of the IVAW, he’s suddenly against the war in Afghanistan, too. I wonder how he can justify that.

  • IAVA co-founder, Phil Carter, hit by Gitmo bus

    Some of you who were around TAH last year, might remember that TSO tore up the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America “scorecard” of the Senate which was created and manipulated to make us believe that Barack Obama was better for veterans than John McCain. Then TSO found that one of the co-founders of IAVA, Phil Carter, was the Obama campaign’s veteran advisor, and I busted the IAVA trying to cover up that fact when TSO exposed them.

    Oh, yeah, Phil Carter was also the guy who came out to meet Matthis Chiroux Liam Madden when Chiroux Madden delivered IVAW’s list of demands to the Democratic National Convention in Denver last year. In addition to the “scorecard” scam and stroking the IVAW, Carter was working for the Obama Campaign while he wrote a regular column at the Washington Post’s Intel Dump. Phil Carter parlayed those little stunts in service to Obama into a job position at the Pentagon, the Deputy Assistant secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs.

    Well, according to the New York Times, Phil Carter is the latest casualty of the Guantanamo bus;

    Phillip Carter, who was named deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee policy in April, resigned last Friday because of “personal issues,” a Pentagon official said. Mr. Carter could not be reached for comment and no other reasons were given for his departure.

    Mr. Carter, 34, a lawyer and an Army adviser to the Iraqi police in Baquba in 2005 and 2006, was in charge of veterans outreach in President Obama’s 2008 campaign.

    Mr. Carter’s departure comes as the administration has acknowledged that it will not be able to close the prison by Jan. 22, the self-imposed deadline Mr. Obama announced immediately after taking office.

    Mr. Carter has also left in the middle of the administration’s efforts to prosecute some of the Guantánamo detainees and find a location in the United States to house perhaps 50 to 100 terrorism suspects indefinitely. The Cuba prison now has 215 detainees.

    Noah Schachtman writes;

    I just got off the phone with Carter. “I know this is a Washington cliche, but sometimes the cliches are true,” he tells me. “I made this tough decision for personal reasons, even though I loved the job and the work we were doing. Hopefully I’ll have the chance to serve again.”

    Yeah, Phil, everyone else lies about “personal issues” but in your case it’s true – just you. This on the heels of Greg Craig’s personal issues. I hope Carter feels that all of his underhanded misuse of his veteran status was worth it. I’ll be watching to see what job he scores in the 2012 campaign.

  • Webb and Wasfi “our message of justice”

    Poor Carl Webb is complaining about being persecuted by the IVAW board because they won’t let him spread his “message of justice” – that message being that insurgents should be encouraged to kill American troops. Of course, Iraqi Dahlia Wasfi, you know, one of those Iraqis who live in the safety of the US but thinks she’s an activist for the Iraqi people agrees with Webb.

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    This is what passes for martyrdom in the US leftist mind;

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    I love that super-smart Wasfi stoops to quoting Doctor Phil. Wasfi was born in New York City, but spent part of her early childhood in Iraq – but her family moved back to the US. I wonder why?

    It seems to me that if she’s so damned worried about the “US Occupation” of Iraq, she’d want to fight against it instead of sitting in relative splendor here in the US. And she should take motor-mouth Webb with her. Then Webb can actually fight against US troops instead of just sitting on someone else’s couch and encouraging Iraqis to fight – flapping his unemployable gums.

    A pair of ignorant hypocrites.

    Oh, by the way, remember the guy who wrote on the IVAW website that “IVAW Supports Killing American troops“? Geoff Millard threatened to have him tossed out of the organization but Jose Velasquez settled on just giving him a letter of reprimand. I don’t see his name on the website anymore.

    Didn’t someone on this forum threaten to resign if the guy was punished?

  • Where’s Carl Webb today?

    Carl Webb continues to make news among our friends in the IVAW refugee camps across the country. Take for example this picture of Webb (on your right) horning in on a picture with members of Movement for a Democratic Society (a concept with which Webb is unfamiliar since he’s a self-avowed Marxist/Leninist/Trotskyite). That’s Eldridge Cleaver’s ex-wife and former head of the Black Panther Party in the middle of all of those pale white oppressors.

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    Speaking of oppression, here’s a comment that Webb left on YouTube to a disabled female Desert Storm veteran;

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    Webb is real brave on the internet, though. When Casey Porter was in Austin a week or so ago (Carl’s home town), Webb kept a very low profile. I wonder why?

    Maybe it’s because he’s a REAL coward.

    Added: With folks dishing on Webb left and right it’s hard to keep up. I’m guessing by their body language, these girls aren’t impressed with the 44-year-old Marxist/Leninist/Trotskyite food service worker/activist who makes less than $30,000. Neither was the Census Bureau, apparently – he lost his shot at a job with them this week. Anyone got a couch or a bicycle he can borrow?

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  • Suspicious package and note found at Ft Benning

    There’s a link on Drudge to a short article on Breitbart about a suspicious note and a package that were discovered at Fort Benning yesterday.

    Bob Purtiman says a soldier found the note and package Thursday morning in an outdoor gazebo. The soldier immediately told a supervisor, who called 911.

    Purtiman would not say what was in the note or what was in the package.

    He said authorities are investigating whether there is a viable threat against Fort Benning. He says security measures have been heightened in the meantime.

    UPI quotes an unidentified source;

    The unidentified source said the box, with 20 bullets, and a handwritten note were found in a motor pool area on the Army base Thursday, the Times reported Saturday.

    “The note said, ‘Tell the commanding general to call off all charges or there will be a re-enactment of Fort Hood,’” the witness told the newspaper.

    The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer says General Petraeus is in town, too;

    Discovery of the package came on the same day Gen. David Petraeus, commander of the U.S. Central Command, was in Columbus for Fort Benning’s Officer Candidate School graduation of 152 new second lieutenants at the Columbus Convention Center.

    Of course, this also happens to be the weekend that School of the Americas Watch has camped outside the gates of Benning to protest the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly known as “School of the Americas”.

    The members of SOAW are the biggest freaking liars on the face of this planet along with all of the rest of the sheep who buy into their lies. I don’t put it past the little drama queens to make threats against soldiers stationed at Benning to cultivate a little attention. The IVAW is also known to participate with these protests at Benning along with the Geezers for Sitting on Our Hands.

  • What the IVAW thinks of personal opinions

    Last night, an IVAW member posted this on the “Members Speak” portion of their website;

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    This morning it’s been removed from the IVAW website and the member is being considered for expulsion because the IVAW Board of Directors couldn’t summon the testicular fortitude to boot Carl Webb and it’s just easier to persecute members who oppose their support of violence and sabotage.