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Category: Phony soldiers

  • John Kerry flip-flopping again

    The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board writes this morning that John Kerry, former anti-war presidential candidate who was for the war before he was against it, is about to issue a report from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that *surprise* blames the Bush Administration for not injecting enough troops into the Afghanistan conflict initially to end the war. This is seen as political cover for the President’s anticipated deployment of 34,000 more troops into the conflict tonight.

    coming from Mr. Kerry, of all people, this criticism is nothing short of astonishing.

    In 2001, readers may recall, the Washington establishment that included Mr. Kerry was fretting about the danger in Afghanistan from committing too many troops. The New York Times made the “quagmire” point explicitly in a famous page-one analysis, and Seymour Hersh fed the cliche at The New Yorker.

    On CNN with Larry King on Dec. 15, 2001, a viewer called in to say the U.S. should “smoke [bin Laden] out” of the Tora Bora caves. Mr. Kerry responded: “For the moment what we are doing, I think, is having its impact and it is the best way to protect our troops and sort of minimalize the proximity, if you will. I think we have been doing this pretty effectively and we should continue to do it that way.” The Rumsfeld-General Tommy Franks troop strategy may have missed bin Laden, but it reflected domestic political doubts about an extended Afghan campaign.

    So, just like everything else he’s done this year, Obama will be merely fixing Bush policy, according to his defenders. I guess this more of John Kerry’s 20/20 hindsight and his wonderful ability to rewrite his own history. Don’t be surprised if film footage is released of Kerry in full combat gear patrolling on his own through the mountains of Afghanistan, peeking into caves, bayoneting hay stacks in his search for bin Laden.

  • 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.

  • Soltz on his knees

    VoteVets’ Jon Soltz crawls out from under President Obama’s desk long enough to fire off an angry missive at the Republican Party – you know, like a good non-partisan that he is;

    I never thought Sarah Palin could say something that would leave me totally speechless, but this time, she’s done it.  Reports Politico:

    Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin on Monday accused President Barack Obama of not acknowledging the sacrifices made by the men and women in the U.S. military.

    “There’s been a lack of acknowledgement by our president in understanding what it is that the American military provides in terms of, obviously, the safety, the security of our country,” Palin said during an interview with Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren. “I want him to acknowledge the sacrifices that these individual men and women – our sons, our daughters, our moms, our dads, our brothers and sisters – are providing this country to keep us safe.”

    Hasn’t acknowledged their sacrifices?  Seriously?  What’s this look like?

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  • 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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  • Carl Webb in his own words

    Casey Porter, a former IVAW member who was harassed out of the organization by extremists of IVAW, namely Carl Webb and Doug Zachary, conducted a telephone interview with Webb about his support for terrorists and insurgents fighting against American troops in the Middle East;

    Porter explains his reasoning for making this video on Facebook;

    YES is my latest film dealing with the controversial wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
    While this film does feature pictures from the war in Iraq, it is much more of a focus on a very vocal member of the Anti-War community, Carl Webb. Carl Webb has advocated violence against Soldiers and sabotage as means of “resistance”.

    I proposed an idea to people within the Anti-War crowd that you could catch a recruiter lying if you recording a conversation with them. While this was never acted upon they were very enthusiastic about the idea and said I should do it.

    Well, I used the same methods and tactics when recording Carl Webb. I invite you to listen to him speak, make your own judgments. If you are as outraged as others have been over his words of hate, then there is a contact list of the organizations he belongs to at the end.

    I am still against the wars, but people like Carl need to be put on blast for their tough-talk, and zero follow-through.

    Carl is a member of Iraq Vets Against The War. The audio conversation was given to the Executive Director and the Board of IVAW prior to the release of this film. No action has been taken against Carl for his past, and present actions.

    Yes, Carl Webb fully supports killing US troops and he’s not afraid to admit it when he posts on IVAW discussion forums;

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    The date of that posting is after the IVAW determined that they don’t want that kind of rhetoric to muddy up their charter – but Webb is still a member of IVAW.

    In the next posting from the IVAW discussion forums, Webb says he’s trying to convince Evan Knappenberger to rejoin IVAW;

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    Knappenberger was the IVAW member who was booted briefly from the organization for threatening to bomb the Gathering of Eagles and Michelle Malkin – apparently Webb misses the violent nutjobs of IVAW.

    For the last few months, I’ve been waiting for a reporter from the Stars and Stripes to publish an interview he did with me (and Army Sergeant) about the IVAW. I wrote him this morning to ask what the hold up is and he told me he’s having trouble getting active duty members to come forward. Is it any wonder when IVAW allows their radically violent members to taint the organization with their dangerous and seditious drivel?

  • Hal Muskat: don’t thank me

    Yes, there are 363 days every year to express your personal disrespect for soldiers. Just like a black person thinks he has a right to call other black people the “n” word, some veterans think they can use Veterans’ Day to call other veterans vile names. Hal Muskat, one of the original zombies of the VVAW, is just like that. He begins his Veterans Day rant by trying to undo all of the work veterans and their service organizations have accomplished over the last thirty years;

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    Every time I hear, “Thank-you for serving!” I want to reply, “Fuck You!”

    For which of the following are you thanking me:
    a) learning how to do field abortions on “pregnant gook girls”;
    b) Being part of a military that is responsible for millions of deaths in Vietnam;
    c) Refusing orders to Vietnam;
    d) Participating in the GI Movement;
    e) Thinking for myself;
    f) Not thinking for myself;
    g) Following or not following orders?

    Now, if I read that correctly, and in reverse order, Muskat never went to Vietnam, but somehow performed “field abortions” on Vietnamese women? I guess he’s another Doug Zachary and Ward Reilly who want you to think he went to Vietnam, but didn’t.

    Then he establishes his right to call veterans names on their day;

    As a member of the United States Army from 1965 – 1970, I was NOT defending America, our allies, your families or friends. America was NOT being attacked by the Vietnamese, much in the same way that America is NOT being attacked by Iraqis.

    I for one, do NOT thank current soldiers for their service in Iraq or Afghanistan! I thank and honor those who repudiate this nation’s militarism. I thank Iraq Veterans Against the War for their thought, action and lives. I thank those veterans who organized and testified at the IVAW Winter Soldier Hearings last year and who continue to give witness to atrocity and mayhem.

    On Veteran’s Day, I salute, in addition to IVAW, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Veterans For Peace, The National Liberation Front of Vietnam, WWII Allied Forces led by General Dwight Eisenhower; I salute Resistance Fighters against the nazi’s throughout Europe; Resistance movements from South Africa to South Harlem, from Philadelphia to Nicaragua where my government spent millions attempting to overthrow a democratic government who’s president had the nerve to be critical of the United States.

    This level of ignorance and stupidity has only one cure – a swift kick in the ‘nads. Repeatedly. He was a failure, so he thinks that, because you’re not a failure like him, you don’t have the right to be credited for your faithful service to the nation.

    Yeah, Hal, I’m guessing not too many people have thanked you for your level of service to your country. No wonder you’re bitter.

  • Dr Matthis on Fort Hood murders

    Matthis Chiroux, in his typically oblivious way, decided to politicize Veterans Day yesterday and sent emails to everyone he knows (I have the email addresses so I’ll be mailing this link to them) apparently for no other reason than to prove to the world that he’s a blowhard and he thinks he’s a lot smarter than the rest of us think of him (he also posted it on the IVAW website). Of course, he uses the opportunity to repeat his claim that he has PTSD from hearing war stories;

    We military few are carrying a burden larger than most in this country would care to comprehend. Blood has been spilt, and the only solution we’re given is more spilt blood. So we kill, like they do in combat, like they did in Fort Carson, Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Hood…Oklahoma City.

    We kill ourselves, like we do on every base, in every state, in my bedroom…all too close. I was called up for Iraq. Five years I survived to be discharged and recalled. While I never deployed, I was a journalist. I heard stories.

    As Maj. Hassan heard stories. The kinds of which nightmares are made of and then medicated. If they were like the ones I heard, memories have rubbed off on Maj. Hassan of murder, torture, racism, rabid aggression, sexual deviance, mutilation, brutalization and dehumanization.

    So we can expect that Chiroux will be knocking on the door of some poor overworked VA counselor pestering him about the horror…the horror of his six days (give or take) at the Bagram Air Base Baskin-Robbins.

    Notice how he says “we” like he’s one of us combat veterans and not a chickenshit coward who didn’t want to disrupt his life just because he promised?

    Oh, and he’s being persecuted like Black slaves;

    I chose the path of outright resistance. I did not end my life. I reclaimed it and refused deployment to Iraq. I was found guilty of misconduct, but I know from experience how often the Army’s dead wrong, as is our nation. Resisting slavery was once illegal too.

    See, how it all comes back to Matthis and how brave he thinks he is? And so what if Hasan yelled Allahu Akbar – everybody in the movies shouts stuff before they shoot, too. Well, Chiroux doesn’t say that, but that’s the only place he’s ever seen anyone shoot anyone else – in movies.

    But the usual suspects are asserting that it’s not the war, the guns, or the Army’s brand of illness and callousness at fault here. It’s Islam and the terrorists, they say, while their ethnocentricity goes unchecked by good people and knowledgeable veterans.

    So he screamed Allahu Akbar before he pulled the trigger. Ever hear what Soldiers scream in combat? It’s a combination of profane, blood-lustful jargon and cries for reassurance from the almighty. “Ain’t no such thing as an atheist in a fox-hole,” I’ve heard. What about Christians behind mass murder?

    They happen in Iraq and Afghanistan all the time. There’s a million dead, and they didn’t all kill themselves. Knowledge of this is what drove Maj. Hassan to the realization that our wars are genocidal. Lack of legal recourse is what drove him to violent madness, as it nearly did me.

    A lack of legal recourse? How many have walked away from this war so far? And he doesn’t have legal recourse. Chiroux wants everyone in the military to be a chickenshit coward like him amd walk away when the going gets too tough…or uncomfortable;

    Soldiers must be given the right to walk away as Maj. Hassan tried to do so many times. If half the military quits, so be it. We’ll rest assured knowing our truly volunteer force is getting twice the care and attention. But the first step in repairing trauma is curtailing the trauma, a luxury not afforded to our troops, many on their third and fourth tours. What better way to put needless war in check?

    Well, who better to address Chiroux than Chiroux the Elder, his father who emailed me this;

    Many of you have received an email from my son, Matthis Chiroux, titled “VET DAY OP ED: The violence within is the Veteran Without”. Matthis has taken the opportunity to write an opinion piece on the trajedy at Ft. Hood which reads more about himself than the gunman and murders that took place. I do not believe my son has any personal experience of PTSD nor does he have any formal training on PTSD, let alone knowledge of the facts surrounding the gunman and events at Ft. Hood beyond that which we all have access to through the media. Use of this tragedy to push his own point of view and dramatization of his own experience is inappropriate. As are all of us I am deeply troubled by the events that took place at Ft. Hood and in general the heavy burden carried by our Iraq and Afghanistan deployed forces and veterans and the innocent caught in the middle around the world. We Americans enjoy the right of free speech and we also enjoy the right to rebuke abuse of that right and I do so here. On behalf of my family I apologize for my son to any and all offended by his use of other’s tragedy for his own agenda. Most Humbly, Dr. Robert C. Chiroux

    And he sent me this in response to an interview Chiroux did about the Fort Hood tragedy;

    Recently Matthis Chiroux made the following comments to the media concerning the massacre at Ft. Hood: “There’s a lot more of this out there, potentially. Anyone coming back from war with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) could do the same thing,” said Matthis Chiroux, a former U.S. army sergeant who refused to go to Iraq. “We’re talking about nightmares yet unseen here.”

    To my knowledge,Matthis, a member of the Board of Directors of the IVAW, and thus a default spokesman for that oraganization, has absolutely no experience with PTSD and absolutely no formal training regarding PTSD.

    Matthis served for 5 years as a journalist in the U.S. Army, entirely at Camp Zama in Tokyo and Heidelberg, Germany, except for a short stint with the Marines to Palawan (Matthis’ own description at the time) that somehow morphed into an excursion with his “Army buddies” and a “felt-like” rape of a local and a one week trip to Kabul where he recounted a local boy stepping out into the street and pointing a boot at the Humvee he was in and just for a moment the occupants thought it was a weapon. Other than that I cannot recall anything that would qualify as a PTSD inducing experience.

    Granted Matthis may feel his “abuse” by his father was a source for PTSD but in fact Matthis was serious trouble and very manipulative as a child and when his father resorted to corporal punishment Matthis convinced his youth pastor to report it to the local child welfare office. The ensuing investigation totally exonerated his father, including the pastor of the church weighing in favor of the father. That did not stop Matthis from claiming abuse in his public confessional. If anyone has experienced abuse it has been his entire family and some of his fellow IVAW members, past & present. And I am still puzzled by his confession that he came from a “…poor, white southern family”. Matthis’ mother’s family is worth well in excess of 7 figures and his father has a Ph.D. The point being I respect the IVAW’s right to “peacefully” protest the war but with absolutely no basis for an opinion on PTSD one of your directors is grandstanding over the bodies of 13 murdered U.S. soldiers and the IVAW should have the good sense to reign him in and muzzle him or publically censure him if he does not comply.

    Sometimes these posts just write themselves.

    Thanks to Dr. Chiroux and ArmyVet11B for the links.

  • So did you get arrested after your High School Reunion?

    Well, this dork did;

    Burton’s charade was discovered after an actual Navy commander, Colleen Salonga, ran into Burton at their high school reunion. Online records indicate that Salonga and Burton graduated in 1988 from Alhambra High School in Martinez, California (and that their class’s 20th reunion was last October). Suspicious that Burton was playing dress up, Salonga asked to take a photo with him. That image, seen below, was later provided to FBI agents. A subsequent investigation turned up another photo of Burton in uniform as well as blog postings in which he recounted his “combat experience” and tours in Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Here’s his picture;
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