Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

IVAW’s Matthis Chiroux was a star this last year when he kept his message in the liberal northeast, but now that he’s tried to take it home to Alabama, it’s a different story. Sure he finds some people to feel for him, mostly journalists. Like Annie Gilbertson of The Auburn Villager;

“I believe Alabama is the most important place to foster an antiwar movement,” said Chiroux. “I’ve found a lot of support from the Alliance for Peace and Justice, the Muslim community, the Quakers, the Baptists and other Christian communities. A lot of churches have it right on and see the core of humanitarian ideas.”

Chiroux is often asked if he will eventually run for office–a career he said he is not planning on now, but one that he would pursue in Alabama if he ever changed his mind.

The folks that know Chiroux tell me that he thinks he’s too urbane for life in Alabama, but he works at the Southern affectations for the locals;

“I’m not a coward,” he said, “I’m not a bad soldier, I’m exactly the kind of soldier this country needs right now.”

Chiroux has forged alliances with organizations such as Iraq Veterans Against the War, CODEPINK, Granny Peace Brigade and the Campus Antiwar Network in hopes of building an antiwar effort.

“I ain’t going, I ain’t running and I am not hiding,” he said. “If we all stood up, we’d have a fighting chance.”

Yup, he’s the kind of soldier we need alright. A soldier who shirks his duties and gets outraged when someone expects him to do what he’s been getting paid to do all along. Yeah, we need a ton of folks like that.

Well, over at OANOW.com, the folks who wrote the story the other day that I linked, found some locals who aren’t being taken in by Chiroux;

“When you hear somebody compare our military to the Fourth Reich, you kind of realize that this guy isn’t really worth listening to,” said Janine Babbitt, whose husband Maj. Erich Babbitt, an active duty Army National Guard member, has been deployed in Afghanistan for about a week.

“What this guy is pitching is the ugly American,” [U.S. Army Capt. David] Van Horn said. “He would be pitching this if there was a cold war or a hot war. I would warn strongly against people buying into anything that hasn’t been seen first hand. Until you’ve been there, you’re not going to know.”

“The army is not trying to make criminals out of people. It falls on deaf ears for someone like me who’s been out there and run the road and seen it. American soldiers aren’t built to be terroristic… It’s not who we are as people. My guys are too damn good,” Van Horn said.

Yeah, I think that Chiroux had planned on mooching off of the locals with his pretty words and grand pronouncements, but it may all end soon and he may have to get an actual job. Make sure you read the comments just to get an idea of how out of step Chiroux is with his homies.

I guess now that IVAW member Matthis Chiroux is home in Alabama, the folks down there don’t much like him. My inbox was chocked full of Chiroux-related material this morning. I wish they’d been this upset with him before he’d come home. A local TV station in Huntsville interviewed Dr. Chiroux;

Chiroux says his son continues making the rounds spewing anti-war messages while collecting money.

The father says he supports his son’s freedom of speech, but not when it’s just to make a profit.

“It comes a point in which you have to do the greater good. The greater good is to provide warning,” added Chiroux.

The former sergeant’s dad told WHNT NEWS 19 his son just spoke at a church in Auburn last weekend. He’s not sure if money was collected, but offers advice to potential donors.

“If anyone is encountering Matthis and feeling inclined to providing him with financial assistance, think carefully about what you’re doing, and what you’re providing financial assistance for,” added Chiroux.

Chiroux says his son’s actions are hurting the family.

The father has gone so far as to ask his attorney to demand his son stop causing harm to the family name.

I noticed that last night, someone purporting to be Chiroux’s fiance dropped by to scold us for pointing out the inaccuracies in Chiroux’s fairy tales. I guess she needs up to stop attacking him so he can make some money and stop draining her savings account. She makes the same old “parents should support their children” BS that she probably used when she announced her engagement to the useless grifter to her own parents.

Lemme tell you something, Alex, what Chiroux is doing to the soldiers with whom he served is far worse than anything I’ve done on this blog. In his latest ignorant speech in Alabama, he called the troops racists, rapists and murderers – and you approve of it. Maybe 35 years ago he could have gotten away with such slanderous speech, but this is the age of the internet, dear. The age of real freedom of speech. When Matthis Mole sticks his head up, This Ain’t Hell will be there to Whack him back down.

And parents are supposed to love their kids, but they don’t have to tolerate their crap. As a parent of four kids about the same age as Matthis, I’m kind of an expert on the subject. When you’re a parent, then you can come and criticize the way we raise our kids. Dear.

There’s going to come a day in the near future when you’ll wish I wasn’t speaking figuratively.

And you’re right, this has nothing to do with politics – it has to do with your betrothed being a lying sack of shit. If these posts weren’t affecting him, you wouldn’t be here defending him, nor would he be stopping by to make a rare appearance.

Tell Chiroux to get a real job and quit smearing the folks with whom he served, and I’ll stop writing about him. I hear air conditioning and refrigerator repair is big business in Alabama.

The above picture is a screen cap of a video that was made over a year ago by the folks at the IVAW DC Treehouse. It shows Matthis Chiroux who babbles for nearly 10 minutes as his father, Richard Chiroux, stands beside him on Fathers’ Day 2008. I won’t link it but you can search on YouTube with Chiroux+father.

Since then, Chiroux has blamed his father for forcing him to join the military. Chiroux also accused his father of abusing him when he was young. Apparently, Chiroux, the Elder doesn’t stand beside his son. This is a comment he left (I can’t verify it’s authenticity, but he seems to know intimate details of Chiroux’s pre-Army life) at the article that I linked yesterday;

I’d heard rumors that Dr. Chiroux had volunteered to join the Army to serve in the spot his son abandoned. I guess it’s true.;

I offered some time ago to re-enlist in the the US ARMY specifically to serve in Iraq, both due to my son’s actions and my own Middle Eastern experience. That offer stands. I will serve at the front if my country asks it of me.

I learned a long time ago that you can only teach your kids right from wrong and when they reach a certain age, you have to let them make their own mistakes and suffer the consequences. Every time they fall it’s painful for parents to watch them struggle back to their feet. It never gets easier. Good luck, Dr. Chiroux.

Back to the reasons Matthis refused to deploy. Here’s a picture of him towards the end of his active duty time. Does this look like someone who hates the military?

Before you ladies start wetting yourself over the fierce combatant Matthis Chiroux, I blew the photo up and discovered that he’s firing blanks through the M240 machine gun. Notice how he cropped off the blank adapter on the muzzle. The picture is just a set up – like those John Kerry in Vietnam pictures.
Here’s the blown up photo;

A real infantryman can spot blank ammunition.

Oh, by the way, I snagged that photo from his Facebook profile so it’s not like it’s part of his life that he’s ashamed of like he lets on. It’s justmore proof that he loved the Army life, but he didn’t like actually being uncomfortable after his grueling tours of Germany and Japan.

NYC Vet sent me the lastest report of a matthis Chiroux siting. Apparently, he had time to think about incorporating his confessions of a few months ago (when Kris Goldsmith accused him of bragging about raping a Pinay girl). He’s expanded his story to make himself out to be some kind of dauntless killing machine. From OANOW.com;

Chiroux said he refused deployment to Iraq because he believes it is an illegal occupation and that the Army fosters a culture of abuse and torture.

Now, after obtaining a general discharge, Chiroux is still speaking out against the Iraq War.

He told the congregation Sunday there’s “a Fourth Reich movement right here on our shining society on the hill.”

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