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Category: Iraq Veterans Against the War

  • Phony soldiers; things I can get away with writing

    I’ll begin this with some background for the first time readers who will not have the energy to bother checking my “About” page before they email me with their false outrage. I spent twenty years in the Airborne and Bradley Infantry – I wore maroon, black and green berets all within the first six years of my career. I volunteered last year to go back on active duty – after being out for 14 years – because my country asked me. My son is currently an Air Force Staff Sergeant on active duty, my father was in the Navy during the Korean War, my niece (Army Reserve) and her husband (USMC) were both tapped for active duty service Iraq. All of my friends are or were on active duty. I have no friends who haven’t been on active duty. I’m no “chickenhawk”. Period.

    So why did I say all of that? Well, I just finished reading the latest at Chickenhawk Express and it got my blood boiling and I’ve got some things to say that I can get away with, while people like Rush Limbaugh can’t get away with saying.

    There’s a common thread that runs through all of these IVAW folks – they’re proven liars and sociopaths. This one that Robin wrote about, Clifton Hicks, is no different. At Hick’s IVAW “Back to Baghdad” fantasy tale about his so-called service in Iraq, he starts out telling lies;

    I grew up in Savannah, Georgia, right near Fort Stewart, and I’ve always remembered what a big deal it was when 3rd ID came home in ’91.

    If Hicks remembered the 3ID coming home, he lived in Germany because that’s where the 3ID called home at the time. The 24th Infantry Division came home to Fort Stewart in 1991. Anyone living in Savannah, Georgia at the time would have known that. The people in Savannah loved their 24th Division – many of the members of that division were from Savannah. Hicks is lying.

    So we get treated to more lies about this cumbubble’s so-called service;

    We were tucked away in the shittiest part of the base, behind two concrete walls and a canal, about a mile and a half from all the luxurious MWR facilities that we either weren’t allowed in or never had time to visit. We occupied old Iraqi Army barracks that besides being poorly built were of course plagued by rats and giant camel spiders who pestered us relentlessly. We lived off of junk food, MRE’s, and the rancid, fly ridden slop from our DFAC when we were desperate. A health inspector actually came by one day and demanded that our DFAC be shut down, but the Squadron Commander and Sergeant Major fought it and they stayed open.

    That, my friends, is an outright lie. No commander, nor sergeant major, would tolerate unsanitary conditions in their mess hall. No squad leader, platoon sergeant, first sergeant would tolerate it. Mess sergeants are proud of the way they can feed nourishing food anywhere under any conditions. “Rancid, fly-ridden food” would never get to a soldier’s mouth. Having been an Infantry Platoon Sergeant, I know how important chow and sanitary conditions are to the successful completion of the mission.

    Now let’s look at this picture from Hick’s photo gallery at IVAW;

    Hick’s calls the photo “My First Notch” implying that as an M1 driver, he killed the driver of the vehicle with his tank. The only problem is that the photo is taken from the gunner’s position on the M1. If there is indeed a dead person in that car, and if indeed the M1 killed him, the photographer wasn’t driving the tank.

    In another interview, Hicks described “the wedding incident”

    Hicks is haunted by his activity in Iraq. He talks about what he calls the “wedding party incident.” His unit was on patrol when they heard shooting between US armed forces and what they thought were Iraqi insurgents. While Hicks prepared to go house to house in search of the enemy, what he discovered instead was a wedding. Some of the men had been shooting rifles into the air, as is customary during family parties and celebrations. Three people from the wedding were shot; a six-year-old girl was killed. When the platoon sergeant called the command center to report the incident, “all they said to us was ‘Charlie Mike,’ a stupid Army acronym for continue mission.”

    So, if that’s true, why didn’t Hicks report it higher? We all know what happened at Haditha when innocents were killed. If Hick’s conscience is bothering him, why doesn’t he give testimony to the incident instead of just yapping like a yorkie?

    In Hick’s Letter to Vets for Freedom;

    How come nearly every single one of you people that I’ve seen or read about are Lieutenants and Sergeants? When I look at your little war pictures and read your poorly written bio’s my vision is overflowed with images of lazy, incompetent, cowardly Officers with a handful of brain-dead NCO’s to do their dirty work, as usual. I wonder where you boys all served?

    So only Hick’s service can be considered heroic, I suppose. Anyone else was just a pogue. Funny, but while I served in the Infantry, I thought Cav pukes were pogues – the difference between me and Hicks; I grew out of it and honor everyone’s service.

    I have to snicker, though. He calls VfF members’ bios poorly written and then writes the awkward “…my vision is overflowed with images….” phrase. Editorial kharma got him.

    I suspect that Hick’s application for CO status stemmed from something more than what I can find. Some kind of childish misbehavior that he was trying to escape. I’m sure I’ll find it eventually – because there’s always a backstory to CO filings – in a volunteer military, people of coscience just don’t join.

    I had a soldier transferred to my platoon from another company where he had misbehaved. When he found out how tough life was going to be in my platoon, he threatened to file as a concientious objector unless we transferred him back with his buddies. I, of course, told him to file – I didn’t give a tiny little rat’s ass what the little punk did. But the sergeant major caved and transfered him to appease the little punk. The soldier went to the war and came back – so much for the “conscience” part of being a CO.

    Another soldier – the commander’s driver, if I’m not mistaken – went AWOL the morning we were scheduled to deploy to Iraq. When he called the commander, he claimed to be a CO – but it turned out that he just didn’t want to leave his German girlfriend unsupervised. He did 18 months at hard labor for thinking with his “other” head.

    Adam Kokesh, whom I’ve written about extensively here, was busted for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from the war. Hardly the actions of someone who “questioned” the war. It was only after the Marines busted him a rank and then denied him the opportunity to return to Iraq did he suddenly decide the war is immoral.

    Lt. Ehren Watada, the youngster who volunteered for the Army didn’t become a CO until he’d been in the Army for three years – joining after the war in Iraq began. The little known fact is that Watada’s father had been a draft dodger during the Vietnam War. So, a logical person could conclude that Watada had joined the Army just to demoralize the troops – and to insure Democrat support in future elections.

    Those are the phony soldiers – the guys who turn their sociopathic behavior into something marketable to the eager press willing to pay in exposure and feed the phony soldiers’ need for attention. But attention away from their crimes and misbehavior, portraying themselves as noble men, when the truth is that they are nothing more than snake oil salemen.

    Scumbags all. These people don’t understand the concept of “selfless service” because in every action they take, it’s all about them. That’s why there are no conscientious objectors anymore – just a bunch of self-promoting morons with bouts of John F. Kerry syndrome.

    And yes, because they don’t think like me, they’re wrong – because they don’t want the war in Iraq to end. If the war ends, they’re just another footnote in the history books and maybe a “where are they now?” interview in twenty years or so.

    UPDATED: I forgot to add the link to The Sniper where my new buddy Thus Spake Ortner inspired this whole Hicks thing (from me, Robin and lately, GI Jane) in the first place. Compared to TSO and Robin, my rant is just a footnote.

  • Kokesh needs help

    Well, it had to happen. Adam Kokesh has gone ’round the bend. This is the banner on the primadonna’s website these days (thanks to Robin from Chickenhawk Express for twigging me to this);

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    He’s been on Hannity and Colmes and he thinks he did such a bang-up job defending himself and his exercise in racist behavior by calling Ann Coulter “Coultergeist” and David Horowitz a “two bit bigot”. Ann Coulter isn’t even scheduled to speak at the Islamo-facism Awareness Week events at George Washington University – but he has to show everyone how clever he is by making up a new hateful word for someone who engages in free speech that happens to run counter to Kokesh’s…um…ideas, so to speak.

    Oh, and Adam, “two-bit” means 25 cents and has nothing to do with bigotry. I know they didn’t cover that at whatever art history or basketweaving class you’re taking at GWU, so I’ll give you a pass on that bit of ignorance.

    Now suddenly, because he has the GWU administration cowed into not punishing him and his cohorts, he’s a “ruthless anti-facist attack dog for hire”. Well, in the real world, he’s a pestering poodle humping rational people’s collective leg.

    But let’s look at stuff that points to Kokesh’s “gone ’round the bend” syndrome (well, besides the fruity banner);

    Frankly, I would be honored to share a stage with Kucinich and Paul. For Kucinich, I’m not so much a supporter as I am an enthusiast. He is one of the few members of Congress who still have principles and stick to them. I’m much more a supporter of Paul because I think his principles about the Constitution and limited government are closer to my own, but I have the same respect for both of them. It’s funny to note that Paul is now lumped in with this communist slur when his (our) views of limited government are really the opposite of communism. It also says “congressman Dennis Kucinich and presidential candidate Ron Paul” when they are actually both congressmen and both presidential candidates.

    That’s the kind of mental illness with which we’re dealing – someone so steeped in a false ideology that Kucinich and Ron Paul seem rational and worthy of support. And the reason Kokesh supports Ron Paul? “I think his principles about the Constitution and limited government are closer to my own” yet, he’s a Leftist and also supports Dennis Kucinich who wants to expand government – quite a disparate view – the view of an irrational person.

    Kokesh should have been honest and told us that the only government he wants restrained is a Republican-led government. He wouldn’t have the same restrictions placed on a Democrat-led government. Kokesh is just another tool of the Democrat party – and he’d support a Ron Paul candidacy right up until after a Paul win in the Republican primary.

    But according to his website, he’ll tell you what’s important for you to think after David Horowitz is done (in a larger room – if that’s even remotely significant).

    We have a venue now for my speech for next week. I will be going on the day after Horowitz in the room (a larger room) next door in the Marvin Center at GWU. The flier reads:
    RECOVERING
    FROM RACISM

    On the effects of war on racism and the dehumanization of the Iraqi people

    Um, Adam, m’boy, I’ll clue you in; dehumanization of the Iraqi people includes jerking our troops out of Iraq immediately and leaving Iraqis to their own devices to establish a working government and security for their people – like you want to do. When your daddy is not selling polo ponies, maybe he can explain it to you.

    And I noticed that Kokesh still calls himself Sergeant Kokesh – further perpetuating the “phony soldier syndrome”. Kokesh hadn’t been a sergeant for at least three years before his discharge, but he still clings to the title – despite the fact he was busted to private for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from the war. That’s the real reason he’s dissatisfied with the war – he got caught being a sociopath.

    Speaking of crackpots, Robin at Chickenhawk Express finds that Cindy Sheehan has discovered our plot to install George W. Bush as our Emporer for Life. My question is; who’s leaking our dastardly plans to the Left? Gateway Pundit has a report of Moonbats Vs. Move America Forward in Berkeley. Its too bad these folks can’t find jobs to occupy them gainfully. Speaking of moonbats Crotchety Old Bastard writes that their queen Cynthia McKinney is planning a run for president from California as the Green party candidate. But we here learned about her impending run from Zombie last week who has pictures of McKinney and Sheehan stumping at Beach Impeach IV.

    Need some more moonbattery? Well watch Diane Watson on Redstate explain to a room full of them why the impeachment of George W. Bush can’t happen until 2009 – then watch out, buddy; narrative from Protein Wisdom. Watson claims Democrats have evidence of impeachable offenses – does anyone truly believe the Democrats have evidence and won’t show us?

  • GWU prez; no expulsion for hateful seven

    George Washington University President Steven Knapp has already decided that there will be no expulsion for the seven little wantwits who posted fliers around GWU that proclaimed “Hate Muslims? So Do We!” according to David C. Lipscomb of the Washington Times;

    George Washington University President Steven Knapp has no plans to take disciplinary action against a group of students involved in an anti-Muslim flier hoax, a university spokeswoman said yesterday.

    “We have established judicial policies and procedures,” university spokeswoman Tracy Schario said. “I am confident that President Knapp will let them take their course.”

    However, Mr. Knapp “reserves the right to intervene” in the university’s student-judicial process, she said.

    Intervene in what? You mean just in case the student body decides to hang them from a crane above a flatbed truck? This is just a prelude to nothing happening.

    Jason Mattera, spokesman for the national conservative group Young America’s Foundation said Mr. Knapp’s inaction shows political bias and is unfair to the campus chapter of the group, whose name was inserted the fliers.

    “He’s going to expose himself as a liar,” Mr. Mattera said. “When it first emerged, he said we’re not going to tolerate it. Now that it turns out it’s liberals he’s going to show where his political views lie.”

    Yeah, this is a typical Leftist trick – they’ll just keep making promises until everyone forgets about it – then when finally questioned they smuggly quip that it’s “old news”.

    Mr. Mattera thinks a hearing would not be necessary because the students have admitted to posting the fliers and said they should be suspended immediately.

    The Washington Times reported Wednesday that the university’s Student Association Executive Vice President Brand Kroeger wrote a letter saying he would “support expulsion.”

    Got news for ya, guys, nothing will happen to spoiled little brat Adam Kokesh – like John Murtha, he is under protection of the worn out hags of Code Pink and the ANSWER sheep. Anything he does will have those barren, childless pimps’ approval – and the permission of gutless sissies like Steven Knapp. But you can bet cash money that if YAP ever steps out of line, they’ll be off campus so fast, the Blue Line train couldn’t catch up to them.

    In fact, if we look back to Tuesday, Knapp said about the incident (before Kokesh fessed up);

    “We do not condone, and we will not tolerate, the dissemination of fliers or other documents that vilify any religious, ethnic, or racial group,” Knapp said in the release. “This flier does not represent, in any way, shape or form, the views of the administration of GW.”

    Another Knapp quote before the Kokesh admission;

    University President Steven Knapp said in a statement, “There is no place for expressions of hatred on our campus.”

    Looks like he changed his tune, huh? Cuz it sure sounds like he’s tolerating it now. When students thought it was conservatives, they sang a different ditty, too;

    Kareem Shibib, a senior from Cornell University who came to gathering after hearing about the poster, said that the flyer is racist.

    Â “I think this is a rather overt form of racism,” Shibib said. “What is important (is) to look further into this.”

    Another muslim student;

    “I was really shocked that this sort of hatred exists on our campus. You never think this would come so close to home, from people you’re in classes with. it’s scary,” a New York Muslim student, Najah El Bash, a leader of the conservative Muslim Student Association was quoted as saying

    When everyone suspected YAF, it was hatred. But suddenly it’s Kokesh and everthing is just fine and dandy. Naked hypocrisy.

  • GWU reacts to Kokesh’s latest theater

    The George Washington University newspaper “The Hatchet“, less than an hour ago has posted their reaction to the Adam Kokesh-led “free speech exercise” on GWU campus last Monday. Anyone hoping that a bit of outrage from students was warranted will be sorely disappointed;

    While the sponsors of the poster said they wanted to help the Islamic community by exposing the extremism of YAF, their actions ultimately defeated their well-intentioned goal. The central issues both sides want to debate – hate, racism and the threat terrorism poses to America today – were lost in a blame game.

    So it was the reaction of people opposed to Kokesh and his merry band of haters who muddied the message not that the message was muddied from the start. Hyperbole is never a good tool for communication.

    Many critics are calling for the expulsion of these students but the only technical offenses they are guilty of is the improper use of the University logo and of not obtaining permission to post the materials. Such an extreme act as expulsion would be inappropriate and only further exacerbate the situation.

    I wonder what the “editorial staff” of the The Hatchet would think if the message had actually been from an extemist Conservative student group – as most of the world thought from Monday morning until the culprits admitted their guilt that evening – in an email. Â

    The Hatchet also published some background on Kokesh little band of pseudo-illectual weinies;

    Freshmen Yong Kwon and Ned Goodwin and graduate student Amal Rammah were not available for comment Wednesday. Group members would not comment on when the group was founded, or why it was founded. It is not registered with the University.

    Though many students said they missed the satirical message, the group said the responses their fliers received are what they had hoped for.

    “I think we are pleased by how the students reacted to it,” Masri said. “The main point was to raise awareness and that is exactly what we’ve done,”

    Graduate student Adam Kokesh is the de-facto leader of the group. A veteran of the Iraq War and a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War, Kokesh was arrested by U.S. Park Police in September for hanging fliers advertising an anti-war protest.

    Kokesh said he and other members of Students for Conservativo-Facism Awareness said the misunderstanding about the intent of their fliers arose because many people heard rumors of the flyers but did not read them.

    “The intent was to raise awareness of (Isamo-Facism Awareness) Week,” Kokesh said. “We understood that at first glance, the flier would be offensive.”

    So they’re pleased that their false depiction of YAF caused such a furor. I wonder what their reaction would be if I started passing out fliers depicting them as child abusers – just to make a point, of course.

    GWU students saved their real anger for Horowitz’ Islamo-Facism Awareness Week;

    “We’re only asking for dialogue and awareness,” Kokesh said.

    “I feel like it is plain human decency to be anti-racist, anti-bigotry,” said Maxine Nwigwe, a graduate student. “As soon as I heard about this week, I was outraged.”

    Senior Brian Tierney said, “We don’t believe that this kind of racist hate speech should come to campus unopposed.”

    I’ll bet Little Brian Tierney hasn’t even heard David Horowitz speak or read his writings – yet automatically it’s “racist hate speech”.

    The Hatchet also posted letters from students;

    While University officials are investigating the situation, there was no serious crime committed. These posters are not a hate crime or an expression of hate because all they do is bringing attention to the appalling campaign by the ultra-right youth. The only offense committed by the author(s) of the materials is impersonation and possible violation of the University’s postering regulations. Thus, University officials should concentrate their efforts on investigating “Terrorism Awareness Week” sponsored by YAF, which openly and loudly calls to fight Muslims.

    Denis Baranov, Junior

    And;

    Authors of posters still guaranteed free speech

    The “anti-Muslim” posters around campus Monday were ignorant, hateful and offensive. They were also free speech. The seven students responsible for the posters should be reprimanded for illegal posting on private property and using the University logo without permission. However, they should not be punished for the constitutionally protected content of their message.

    If anyone has a right to free speecxh, certainly a combat veteran like Adam Kokesh does. Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, “Rather than stifle ‘bad’ or unpopular speech, the remedy is more speech, and the result will be an informed citizenry and a vibrant democratic society.” The GW Peace Forum, Tuesday night’s SA resolution and the plethora of student organization statements condemning the posters are appropriate responses to this “bad” speech. These satirical posters did exactly what free speech is supposed to do: encourage debate.

    Ironically, if posters such as these satirized a more-or-less government position in an “Islamo-fascist” state like Iran, the individuals responsible would likely be imprisoned, beaten or worse. GW should lead by example by not punishing people for free speech, no matter how ignorant that speech may be.

    Joshua Sacks, Sophomore

    So, like I said, anyone hoping for a little outrage from these minds of mush will be disappointed. It seems some of us are more equal than others. The writers and editors are obviously giving the Kokesh Klowns a pass because they’re well-credentialed Leftists – that’s a little sad, but not surprising. Before the leftists admitted their guilt, evey news program, every interviewee was calling for the heads of the conservatives that wrote the posters.

    I’d remind these very forgiving students at GWU that every writer of satire believes a portion of what they write to be true to some degree – that’s what makes it satire and not fiction. Â

    Kokesh is a criminal – a sociopathic, spoiled rich child with too much time on his hands. Chickenhawk Express ferrets out his background and digs up his father;

    Charles Kokesh, a Santa Fe venture capitalist, founder of a firm called Technology Funding and owner of the Santa Fe Horse Park….

    Typical of the 60s rich kids who protested that war. In fact, while his son is playing at being a hippie protester, Daddy is trying to organize a polo tournament at poloblogs.com.

    Michele Malkin has the letter from YAF to the GWU administration. The Sniper takes a few well-placed and well-deserved shots at Kokesh. Hot Air has the audio of his defense of his actions. Johnny Dollar’s Place has the video. Liberal D.C. Universe even sees the hypocrisy.

    Chickenhawk Express emailed me last night and told me that Kokesh is due for trial on his previous poster offense. (WTOP Radio)

    Adam Kokesh, Tina Richards and Ian Thompson appeared in court Thursday. The antiwar ANSWER Coalition says they could face up to six months in jail if convicted of the charge.

    The D.C. Department of Public Works fined the group for pasting hundreds of signs with an adhesive that city officials say makes them difficult to remove. Protesters have said the adhesive was water-soluble.

    The ANSWER Coalition has responded by suing the city, alleging their constitutional rights were violated.

    Their constitutional right to litter DC with garish yellow posters – as I said yesterday, those posters still litter the city, as well as some posters I saw in Bethesda from the March protest. For the story of his arrest, go to this previous post.

    Kokesh is a nuisance that no one holds responsible for his actions. In fact, he still calls himself Sergeant Kokesh at his blog – even though he was busted from the rank three years ago for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back to the States – I think that qualifies him as a phony soldier. Wonkette can barely control her drooling as she reports another Kokesh arrest at the Capitol back in April, while Kokesh himself admits to an arrest at Fort Benning in July.

    Since apparently someone else is paying for his misbehavior, I think it’s time GWU and the DC district courts teach his little punk-ass a lesson. GWU should suspend him for anti-social behavior (that’s three arrests on Federal property since he became a GWU student) and the District should toss him in cell for 6-months until he learns that when a cop tells him not to do something, he won’t just go ahead and do it anyway.

    Kokesh is double-dog daring – someone should take him up on it.

  • So who hung those posters at GWU?

    Monday morning while the rest of America was sleeping in enjoying their Columbus Day, nefarious forces were afoot on the George Washington University. The Washington Post article “Poster Was Aimed At Racism Authors Say” this morning explains the event;

    Fliers that appeared on the George Washington University campus carrying an apparently anti-Islamic message were produced by students who were attempting to mock those they thought were trying to stir fear of Muslims, a campus newspaper was told.

    The GW Hatchet, an independent campus paper, posted a story on its Web site late last night saying it had heard from those behind the fliers, who said they had been misunderstood. According to the Hatchet, an e-mail that it received from the students said the flier was not an attack on Islam but an effort “at exposing Islamophobic racism.”

    Yep, but who did people who were outraged about this attack initially? The Young Americans Foundation conservative group on campus. As if any serious political organization would use hate as a tool to recruit in this day and age – well except radical Leftists and Islamists.

    So who were the people behind it? Well, the Post declines to name them, but the GW Hatchet has no problem naming names;

    The students – Adam Kokesh, freshman Yong Kwon, senior Brian Tierney, freshman Ned Goodwin, Maxine Nwigwe, Lara Masri and Amal Rammah – said their motives were misinterpreted.

    Yep, Adam Kokesh – the little weasel to whom I’ve dedicated a whole category on this blog. And what was their intent? Squelching the free speech of conservatives, of course;

    Students for Conservativo-Facism Awareness hung the posters in opposition to Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, an event being held beginning Oct. 22.

    Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a David Horowitz event. Just like the KKK leaflets in Manasas were intended to paint the anti-immigration movement there as a racist movement, this Kokesh-led abortion was meant to fan the flames of  hate against conservatives and those of us who are wary of Islamofacism. And it worked initially (from the WaPo, yesterday);

    “I was just really shocked that this sort of hatred exists on our campus,” said Najah El Bash, a sophomore from New York who is one of the leaders of the GWU Muslim Students Association. “You never think this would come so close to home, from people you’re in classes with. . . . It’s scary.” It had to be well-planned, she said, for so many posters to go up so quickly.

    Yeah, scary. It’s scary that people who who were cautious about blaming radical Islam for the 9-11 attacks is quick to point fingers at conservatives for this kind of childish rhetoric. I would hope that the George Washington University faculty will give Kokesh exactly what they would have intended for YAF if they’d found them responsible. But, fat chance. In fact, the local TV stations, after their initial reports of facists on the loose in the city, have dropped the story. Here’s a Fox 5 report that hasn’t been updated to reflect the solved crime since yesterday at noon. The local Telemundo news broadcast hasn’t changed either. I guess it’s too good a story when it’s sheet-wearing racists instead of non-sheet-wearing racists.

    By the way, those posters that Kokesh and his bunch got arrested for posting nearly a month ago that they claimed were an expression of their free speech? Well, they’re still all over the city – no one has taken them down. In fact, I saw a poster the other day from the March 17th protest. I wonder if the city has collected on their $20,000 fine yet.

    Hat tip to Kate for the early morning email on a slow news day. Michele Malkin has more, and Little Green Footballs was on it here and here. David Horowitz calls it a hate crime. LGF and Gateway Pundit write that YAF is being asked by the assistant director of student activities to apologize for the fake posters from YAF’s fake members.

    Samantha Sault of The Weekly Standard Blogs says colleges hate conservatives – I say colleges hate everyone equally. Why else would colleges so readily fill skulls of mush with inacurate and incomplete information?

  • Phony soldiers

    Yeah, I heard the story about Rush Limbaugh calling people “phony soldiers”, I’ve watched the video, I’ve read the blogs – I know what he said, I don’t need it explained to me. He was talking about Jesse Macbeth – the best known fake veteran of this war, so far. Prairie Pundit is waiting for a Macbeth phony soldier squad to embrace him. Who thought this scrawney twirp was a Ranger?

    And who thought this was the career of an E-fricken-four?

    Limbaugh was talking about Scott Thomas Beauchamp who told phony stories about impossible events that happened to him before he set foot in Iraq. You’d think The New Republic would be smart enough to steer clear of the Limbaugh controversy, but, nope.

    Limbaugh was talking about Tom Harkin, the Senator who likes to tell war stories about a war he was never in. He’s talking about Harry Reid, who suddenly feels like the troops have been slighted (not when he called them losers and suggested they quit fighting, though). They can’t condemn Iran for killing our troops, but they can summon the guts to condemn Limbaugh (Hot Air) – how fricken brave.

    Limbaugh is talking about John Kerry who took a movie camera to Viet Nam (at a time when even most really rich people didn’t have movie cameras) and “re-enacted” his battles – and threw someone’s medals over some fence. And made up stories about what he’d wished he done in Viet Nam. Then makes a “botched joke” about how stupid the troops are. More on the original phony soldier, John Kerry from Sweetness and Light.

    Limbaugh was talking about John Murtha who hides behind his fake 30 years of service (half of which he spent in Congress, and all except one year, he spent defending Johnstown, PA from being awash in beer in his “special infantry” unit) while taking pot shots at the folks who are actually doing the heavylifting he couldn’t summon the testicular fortitude to accomplish. Need I mention his “pink badge of courage“?

    Here’s another phony soldier, Al Gore who had a body guard either because he was an E-4 journalist or a Senator’s son. I spent a year in Panama as an Army journalist and I never had a body guard. My friend, Gary, spent a few years as a journalist in Germany and didn’t get a body guard – so you tell me;

    Apparently his bodyguard was to protect Gore from himself.

    Limbaugh is talking about Jon Solz, who flew off the handle at a soldier in uniform at the Yearly Koz, yet a picture of Solz in his uniform is on his website (which is now closed because Solz has apparently foresaken his own band of phony soldiers) – doing nothing more than the young buck sergeant at the Yearly Koz.

    Limbaugh is talking about Adam Kokesh – the dimwitted bubblehead who claimed he’d been discharged when he hadn’t, who made false claims about the war all because he’d been busted smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from the war and the Marines wouldn’t extend him the honor of returning to the war. And then makes false claims about the recruiter that recruited him. Kokesh still calls himself “Sergeant Kokesh” even though he was busted to private years ago. All the while he’s using his GI Bill to get an education.

    I meet phony soldiers nearly everyday – they’re everywhere. Just the other day I saw some homeless bum walking around with a cammie jacket and a ton of patches sewn on it – none of which had anything to do with another. But the Left loves them – the Left defends them. The Left protects them. And this how they treat the troops with whom they disagree;

    So this Clinton-funded Media Matters gaggle with admitted liar David Brock at the helm doesn’t need to tell me what to think about Limbaugh – nothing Limbaugh says can compare to those phony warriors on Capitol Hill – and the ones the Left seems to attract.

    Michele Malkin is all over Tom Harkin and Crotchety Old Bastard is mopping up Harry Reid. Gateway Pundit is dragging out phony soldiers from every closet – here, here and here. Melanie Morgan at Move America Forward mentions a few more phony soldiers that I’ve forgotten,

  • A week of action; mental masturbation to reach zenith

    If you think that the ANSWER/IVAW protest last Saturday was the a big waste of time, they have a “Week of Action” planned reports the Washington Post;

    Dozens of war opponents, including some who were among the 192 arrested Saturday, spent yesterday training for this week, which will be “the most intense week” of planned actions since the Iraq conflict began, said Brian Becker, national coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, which organized Saturday’s rally and march and many of the other large antiwar events across the country.

    Apparently, being a dumbass pest takes training – a whole day, so I guess it’s not a long journey. But first of all they needed to get out their horror stories from their arrests this last Saturday;

    Activists came to four training sessions held at George Washington University’s School of Media and Public Affairs yesterday, many trading stories from their arrests or from clashes with several hundred war supporters who lined the march route.

    Yeah, their harrowing ordeal or their arrests best recorded by Jack Langer of Human Events;

    Then, one at a time, around a dozen antiwar veterans of the Iraq War jumped over the wall. The cops grabbed them as they went over, cuffed them with flexicuffs, and marched them away. Emboldened, other protestors hopped the wall. Soon, the cops had scores of protestors lined up, with their hands tied, waiting to be carted off to jail. A kind of collective frenzy overtook the crowd. Old women from Code Pink went over the wall. College kids jumped over. At times there were so many of them that they were left to mill around for a few minutes before an officer became available to cuff them. Altogether, I’d say around 150 protestors were arrested.

    The police showed great restraint. When older protestors or women went over, the cops offered their hand and gently assisted them down off the wall. But after about an hour of this, the cops had had enough. They began pushing back would-be wall jumpers with their riot shields. Then, when two young men danced a little too long for the crowd on top of the wall, the police hit them with pepper spray. Blinded and choking, they went over the wall anyway. A protestor taunted the cops, yelling “Ha-ha, they won.” I suppose if you define “winning” as getting gassed and arrested, then yes, the two men won.

    The anarchists really disappointed me. None of them jumped the wall. They portray themselves as the most militant wing of the antiwar movement, but they didn’t even have the guts displayed by the Code Pink grandmas. The anarchists claim to want a revolution, but apparently not a single one of them is willing to risk a misdemeanor arrest to achieve that glorious goal.

    What a soft nation we’ve become when the police are polite and helpful while aresting people – where were the slobbering dogs and the riot batons, for cripes sake. I wonder if the Iranian or Chinese police would that polite. Oh, but I digress – the week of action…

    The Post story goes on to tell us about this action-packed week;

    They are calling today National Truth in Recruiting Day, during which war opponents will try to reach young people in particular, as well as anyone considering joining the military. Activists said yesterday that they planned to visit area recruiting centers, schools and other places young people might go and that war opponents would be doing the same in such spots across the country.

    “You have to ask the right questions, find out what’s motivating them, share with them the truth and dispel myths,” Adam Kokesh, co-chair of Iraq Veterans Against the War, told the crowd, which included local college students as well as older activists, many of whom had traveled from outside the District. “My reasons [for volunteering] were patriotism; I wanted to put my life on the line for my country.” But in hindsight, “I could have been convinced that there were better ways to further democracy in the world.”

    Other strategies include trying to eat up recruiters’ time by calling and visiting centers and pretending to be potential recruits.

    So I guess the recruiters will be harrassed for a week by a bunch of goofy kids making crank calls. Well, September is a good time for that – recruiters have already made their mission for September from last Spring’s high school graduates, so this mastermind Kokesh is just engaging in mental masturbation – he’ll feel better about himself, but will have accomplished nothing.

    As long as Kokesh is talking about the truth, let’s hear him tell us the truth…that he’d been to Iraq and volunteered to go back on another tour, but it was discovered that he’d smuggled an Iraqi pistol back on his first tour and was denied his coveted second tour. He was busted from Sergeant to private for his crime and that’s the reason he hates the military and the war – because he’s a sociopath who can’t follow the marine Corps’ simple rule to not smuggle firearms back from a war.

    While he’s at it, he can tell us how he hadn’t been discharged before he illegally wore his uniform to protest the war last Spring, as he had claimed to the ignorant and pliant press. In fact, he still had his military ID card and used it to gain access to military bases in Germany during the investigation.

    I find it somewhat disengenuous of Kokesh to tell these lies and lying about the numbers of the participants in last Saturday’s protest, yet demanding “truth in recruiting” – as if recuiters aren’t being truthful about military service.

    More from Michelle Malkin’s “The Left’s seditious war on military recruiters“. Tacobell at SandGram gives you a real soldier’s reaction to Kokesh and his merry band of attention whores. He also mentions a record deal for Kokesh – is that what this is? Publicity for a garage band?

  • Gathering of Eagles vs Moonbats (Updates)

    UPDATES: As I sift through my photos, videos and other blogs, I’ve been updating this post since this morning. Just scroll through and you’ll see. Whew! I think I’m done. Enjoy!

    Editor’s Note: If you don’t see the photos, it’s because your system is behind a WebSense internet filter and it blocks Photobucket.

    Well, not unlike the stupid hippies that they are, they were HOURS late. They were supposed to start at noon, but they didn’t get to the Capitol until 3 pm. While we were among them at Lafayette Park, one of the event organizers complained over the loudspeakers that people were having trouble showing up because, mysteriously, Metro had shut down the Blue and Orange Lines (from Virginia and GW University) so they weren’t going to kick off until one o’clock.

    But my friend had arrived moments before on the Blue Line from Virginia – it hadn’t been shut down – so another moonbat lie.We figured they were making excuses for their pitiful numbers.

    By the time they got to the Capitol, the general consensus was that they had less than 4,000 people, there were rumors of only 2,000 – but I’m pretty sure there were more than that. Most of them were moving towards Union Station before the die-in started, so their numbers shrank by about half within 20 minutes of their arrival at the Capitol. In a city of a 1/2 million where a good 10% are college students with little to do on a Saturday afternoon the first few weeks of the semester, a few thousand is a pretty shabby turnout.

    This first picture is an upside down flag in Lafayette Park. But they still love this country, right? But the remarkable thing about it (and it wasn’t the only upside down flag) is that all of the flags the moonbats carried through the march were right-side up. So that tells me that someone made a conscious effort to tell all of the upside down flag guys to right their flags – and you know it was for their image, not because of their ideology;

    Another of the upside down flags in front of the White House that mysteriously righted itself before the march;

    Robin from Chickenhawk Express asked me to get photos of folks in uniform, so here’s one;

    An Arty officer from the 24th Division – I’m pretty sure the 24th Division was inactivated before President Bush became president – so he’s making a vacuous point.

    This fellow has more money than brains – he’s way too old to have been issued that uniform by the Army;

    And this Veterans For Peace stuff really cheeses me off. It hints that I’m a Veteran For War because I don’t belong to their testoterone-deficient organization. I’m not “for” war – I’m “for” national security and given the current enemy, war is the only answer. If you think war isn’t the answer, you didn’t understand the question.

    And by the looks of his scraggly ass, he was probably a chapter case anyway.

    If you don’t have a uniform to wear to the event, well, just wear your yacht skipper’s hat;

    Too many signs and not enough moonbats;

    This guy stalked me until I took his picture, so it should make him happy that he made the blog;

    I guess he’s madder at Israel than he is at Bush. But, if you wanted to take a whacky picture with the President, they had cutouts;

    This is my personal nemisis, he stalks me at every event, I have a video of him today in which he calls me “an enemy of peace” (Actually, I’m thinking of changing the name of the blog to Enemy of Peace – it has a nice ring to it, ya know). He’s wearing the same pretentious “Peace” shirt he wears at every event, too. What I did to piss off the Travelocity Roaming Gnome, I’ll never know.

    I’d like for this fellow to name one instance where nonviolence worked to solve anything when dealing with babarians;

    The real rockstars of this rally, though, was supposed to be Adam Kokesh and his IVAW crowd. But I didn’t see them – well I saw them, but only as shadows moving around inside their rockstar bus away from the crowds and adoring fans;

    Apparently, they’re not so hot on attacking Iran, either;

    Well, we left the moonbats behind and went to the Gathering of Eagles down on the National Mall.

    A much more lively group. Here’s a video of a Gold Star father’s speech to the crowd. (I’d embed this stuff if I could figure the darn thing out.

    And the highlight of the day for me, was meeting Michelle Malkin;

    You’ll notice the jumpwings on my cap are on a 1/325 AIR flash – I wore it today to honor the son of my good friend, COBDanny, who happens to be in Iraq while assigned to my old Battalion, the Red Falcons – the spearpoint of the surge. Hooah!

    The funny thing is, I took this picture of Michele Malkin just prior and didn’t even recognize her;

    The GOE group had better signs, too;

    When the Moonbats finally started their parade of fools – THREE HOURS LATE – our side was out in front of them;

    And this is the only sign that I saw that really expressed the moonbats true feelings;

    In this photo, the protesters stretched a huge red banner across the road to keep the protesters bunched up so it looked like a bigger crowd. But it took about five minutes for them to pass as this video shows;

    As this video attests, they thinned out pretty quickly. And this video shows how many they ended with at the Capitol – hardly the hundred thousand that’s being bandied about the web. And it hardly looks like the tightly compressed crowds that the media has been showing in their photos.

    This is a video of Leftist fellow recruiting for the Army. And this ugly cow kept mooing the same thing over and over – “Take your ass to Iraq”. That’s the only response they have – “Go to Iraq”. Why? So we won’t be here to hold you accountable for your intellectually vacant yammering?

    This is a video of a Gold Star father confronting a protester.

    Meet Jake. His right forearm and hand are missing from an IED attack. I found him standing with his friend outside where the die-in was going on. I talked with him a while and I asked him how he was holding up, rockhard troop that he is. He answered, “This isn’t what I went to war for, dude. These people suck.”

    They sure do, Jake, they sure do.

    Michele Malkin has more about GOE at Walter Reed and the Live blogging today’s event. More from Gateway Pundit and Robin at Chickenhawk Express with the view from outside – all the stuff I missed because I was alternately surrounded by goofuses and heroes. Redhunter was there with great report from the GOE crowd, too. One thing is certain – everyone got pictures of Michele Malkin. That little girl was all over this thing.

    The San Francisco Sentinel blog touts the ANSWER demonstration as the largest protest since January (which isn’t hard since all of the others were flops and January wasn’t so hot, either). ANSWER’s numbers are just over the top; they claim 100,000 marched with them – that’s just ridiculous. Even the AP story they use as a source only says “several thousand”. Like I said, there were less than four thousand that diminished to two thousand when the march ended. There were probably one or two thousand counter-protesters.

    Pamela Geller at Atlas Shrugs has the news on the arrests at the DIe-in (Geez, I missed that part).

    More from Kate of A Columbo-Americana’s Perspective – another MM sighting. Age of Hooper catches the corpse of Ramsey Clark on parade. Keep watching the sky – I mean Skye at Midnight Blue. I met her there, too, so I’m sure she’ll have some pics up soon (she also got a picture with Michelle Malkin). Big Dog wandered into the moonbat crowd when they were at their slobbering worst, as Big Dogs usually do and comes out unscathed with a report of biting incidents.

    Powerline has pics of the Die-In and Victory Caucus has tons of photos and links to more blogs. Pam at BlogmeisterUSA and PC Free Zone has more pictures of the GOE side.

    For some reason, veterans getting arrested is more honorable than veterans who continue to serve their brothers and sisters in uniform. Some Leftists wish for the good old days, while others think we’re “scared little babies“.

    The Washington Post calls it “Dueling Demonstrations“, but it’s not really a duel when one side is has no clue what he’s doing. Bloodthirsty Liberal conducts a post-mortem on media coverage.

    The Washington Times provides a more balanced account than the Post or AP.

    Since Kokesh went out of his way to get arrested a week ago Thursday for putting up posters in a National Park with the press on hand to record his arrest, and since he also went out of his way to get arrested yesterday (Saturday, Sept. 15th) I gotta figure that they sense the failing support for their movement and they’re trying to whip up some outrage among the sheep. Like I said last week, we’re witnessing the death throes of the anti-war movement. Just like the American people are tired of hearing about the war, they’re also getting tired of hearing about the primadonnas of the anti-war movement.

    They ride in rock star buses, play to the echo chamber and jet off to another scripted event, and Americans understand that they’re just trying to make a living by not working.