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Category: Phony soldiers

  • Mothers’ Day Peace-nik (now with IVAW)

    I went to the Code Pink Mothers’ Day protest in front of the White House two years ago and they were able to scrape together a few hundred people;

    They even had giant puppets;

    But those heady days of yore are gone. Today, they couldn’t even get in front of the White House. The closest they could get was about twelve blocks away up Connecticut Avenue at DuPont Circle. On their website, they called it a Mother’s Day “Peace-nik” and they urged people to bring their children for fun and games. I expected a hundred or so, but, by my count they were a little over thirty;

    They had activities for the children, but not too many children showed up, so why waste all of that face paint stuff, huh?

    No media was there, it must’ve been tough for them. They couldn’t get the giant puppets, so they brought tall people instead;

    It was a little hard to tell who intentionally dressed like a clown and who didn’t;

    Nothing is sadder than a bunch of old hippies trying to recapture their respective youth by acting like they’re…well, hippies;

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    But since it was the only show in town the big guns were there;

    They started begging as soon as they got there. Apparently they thought the thirty or so people there were flush with cash.

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    Geoff Millard (the guy who’s going to testify to Congress that our troops are all racist) from IVAW was there with his mother;

    He pleaded with the Code Pink to attend their testimony in Congress next Thursday and pack the room to keep out people that might disrupt the hearings. Like this I suppose;

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    He went on to say that Congress should hear about Iraq from soldiers on the ground, not just from “Generals and pundits”. Well, then I suppose he supports Veterans For Freedom because they tried to talk to Congressmen, and I doubt they got to talk to too many of the members of the Progressive Caucus. I also wonder what soldiers who haven’t been in Iraq in the last two to five years can tell the Progressive Caucus about what has happened there in the last year or so. So what Millard meant was that Congress should hear from the drama queens and sociopaths of the IVAW who haven’t been able to find their collective ass with both hands in the last year or so.

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    Then it was time to leave. I thought they’d march on the White House but they went in the opposite direction. So I just filmed them leaving;

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    The anti-war movement is coming undone. They’re unable to announce their events in a timely manner anymore without being countered. Their members are losing interest and their antics turn off more people than they can attract. They claim to have the support of the American people, but the reality is that they don’t. In a city with more than 30,000 college students, they couldn’t get any of them out for their lame showing. This “peace-nik” was nothing more than pan handling – and they were probably out numbered by the regular panhandlers in DuPont Circle today.

  • IVAW; Truth in Testimony

    I wrote early this morning about Thus Spake Ortner‘s discovery that the IVAW intend to take their fantasies to Congress. My new buddy, Coby has written a petition that I’d like ya’all to sign. It asks that the Congressional Progressive Caucus;

    * Make request of the Iraq Veterans Against the War that member(s) of the Caucus be provided video of the entire Winter Soldier Investigation “testimony” proceedings and be provided access to all those who testified,

    *That the Caucus require any testimony given by IVAW be presented in the following format:
    D: Date(s) – When did the incident occur?
    U: Unit(s) – What military units were involved?
    P: Personnel – What are the names of the participants and witnesses?
    E: Event(s) – What exactly happened exactly where?
    S: Signature(s) – Was this reported at the time or later and were reports, affidavits or depositions signed, or will they now be signed?

    * That in the event that staff determines that there has been testimony given that touches on areas where, in the words of Senator Warner, the members of the SASC “have a responsibility to establish where in the military chain of command rests the ‘accountability,’ depending of course, on the accuracy of the facts…”, the Caucus forward the information to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC),

    * That the Caucus request and all documents and records, signed statements and recordings, audio, video or digital, that bear on the claims made and being investigated,

    * That the Caucus demand that those making such claims or professing publicly to verify those claims be requested or subpoened to appear before the HASC under oath, to answer questions.

    You can find the petition here.

    The members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus;

    Co-Chairs
    Hon. Lynn Woolsey (CA-6)
    Hon. Barbara Lee (CA-9)

    Vice Chairs
    Hon. Diane Watson (CA-33)
    Hon. Raul Grijalva (AZ-7)
    Hon. Emanuel Cleaver (MO-5)
    Hon. Hilda Solis (CA-32)
    Hon. Mazie Hirono (HI-2)
    Hon. Phil Hare (IL-17)

    Senate Members
    Hon. Bernie Sanders (VT)

    House Members
    Hon. Neil Abercrombie (HI-1)
    Hon. Tammy Baldwin (WI-2)
    Hon. Xavier Becerra (CA-31)
    Hon. Madeleine Bordallo (GU-AL)
    Hon. Robert Brady (PA-1)
    Hon. Corrine Brown (FL-3)
    Hon. Michael Capuano (MA-8)
    Hon. Donna Christensen (VI-AL)
    Hon. Yvette Clarke (NY-11)
    Hon. William “Lacy” Clay (MO-1)
    Hon. Steve Cohen (TN-9)
    Hon. John Conyers (MI-14)
    Hon. Elijah Cummings (MD-7)
    Hon. Danny Davis (IL-7)
    Hon. Peter DeFazio (OR-4)
    Hon. Rosa DeLauro (CT-3)
    Hon. Keith Ellison (MN-5)
    Hon. Sam Farr (CA-17)
    Hon. Chaka Fattah (PA-2)
    Hon. Bob Filner (CA-51)
    Hon. Barney Frank (MA-4)
    Hon. Luis Gutierrez (IL-4)
    Hon. John Hall (NY-19)
    Hon. Maurice Hinchey (NY-22)
    Hon. Michael Honda (CA-15)
    Hon. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (IL-2)
    Hon. Sheila Jackson-Lee (TX-18)
    Hon. Eddie Bernice Johnson (TX-30)
    Hon. Hank Johnson (GA-4)
    Hon. Stephanie Tubbs Jones (OH-11)
    Hon. Marcy Kaptur (OH-9)
    Hon. Carolyn Kilpatrick (MI-13)
    Hon. Dennis Kucinich (OH-10)
    Hon. John Lewis (GA-5)
    Hon. David Loebsack (IA-2)
    Hon. Carolyn Maloney (NY-14)
    Hon. Ed Markey (MA-7)
    Hon. Jim McDermott (WA-7)
    Hon. James McGovern (MA-3)
    Hon. George Miller (CA-7)
    Hon. Gwen Moore (WI-4)
    Hon. Jerrold Nadler (NY-8)
    Hon. Eleanor Holmes-Norton (DC-AL)
    Hon. John Olver (MA-1)
    Hon. Ed Pastor (AZ-4)
    Hon. Donald Payne (NJ-10)
    Hon. Charles Rangel (NY-15)
    Hon. Laura Richardson (CA-37)
    Hon. Bobby Rush (IL-1)
    Hon. Linda Sanchez (CA-47)
    Hon. Jan Schakowsky (IL-9)
    Hon. Jose Serrano (NY-16)
    Hon. Louise Slaughter (NY-28)
    Hon. Pete Stark (CA-13)
    Hon. Bennie Thompson (MS-2)
    Hon. John Tierney (MA-6)
    Hon. Tom Udall (NM-3)
    Hon. Nydia Velazquez (NY-12)
    Hon. Maxine Waters (CA-35)
    Hon. Mel Watt (NC-12)
    Hon. Henry Waxman (CA-30)
    Hon. Peter Welch (VT-AL)
    Hon. Robert Wexler (FL-19)

    If you have the misfortune to live in one of those districts, please contact their offices and express your displeasure and what you expect from your elected representatives. If you don’t have your representative’s contact information you can find it on Congress.org. It’s been my experience that faxes and phone calls get a better response than email (which usually ends up in trash folder before anyone reads it).

  • IVAW goes to the people

    Back on March 15th, the Iraq Veterans Against the War partnered with their philosophical brethren, the Veterans For Peace and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War and with the support of the labor unions tried to repeat their performance of the 1971 VVAW’s Winter Soldier. Their goal was to turn back the clock to the 1970s and reestablish the myth that the American soldier (Marine, sailor, airman) is a pathological, unfeeling killer and encouraged by the government to murder innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan indiscriminately.

    Despite the huge presence of media types (about 30 different media entities by my estimate), including Al Jeezera and other traditionally anti-US journalists, the image of the American fighting men and women that IVAW was trying to portray just didn’t make it to the public.

    It could’ve been because their stories were being fact-checked as they testified and were therefore watered down, or that this time they were being protested against outside their own event. Or it could be that the stories were weak – one commenter on my own blog called the testimony “a wet firecracker”. Whatever the reason, it was a propaganda failure, utterly and completely.

    Not only did they fail in this endeavor, but because they’d asked other peace organizations to suspend their activities marking the fifth anniversary of the war in Iraq, those other peace organizations couldn’t assemble more than a thousand people in DC for their own protest later in the week. The whole peace movement suffered because of the IVAW’s inability to deliver on their promise of the final blow against the Bush Administration.

    So the IVAW has taken their show on the road around the media directly to college campuses and high schools around the nation. This afternoon, Adam Kokesh spoke in Oakland, CA at the Federal Building, at Marin College and at local high schools. Two more spoke at Perdue University earlier in the week. They’re insinuating themselves into every issue on local TV programs. They’re “counter-recruiting” with Texas students.

    Back in March, Evan Knappenberger, the lunatic who threatened to “blow up” Gathering of Eagles events and issued a “fatwa” on the life of Michelle Malkin, talked to high school students about his experiences in the war. Can you imagine this sociopath talking to your own children?

    Two IVAW members even held an art show in Vermont depicting images of the war as they’d like us to think as what they saw in the war. As if there was a shortage of cameras to bring back actual images.

    VFP and IVAW are still in the game, too;

    Sandy Kelson, VFP, who organized two weeks of outreach at Ft. Stewart Army base, which is home to roughly 19,000 soldiers, of which approximately 15,000 are currently deployed, talked about direct outreach at the base. In February, 2008, he and others, stood at a traffic light right before the entrance and distributed 500 copies of “Sir, No Sir!”, the Dave Zieger film about GI resistance during Vietnam, and 385 copies of “The Ground Truth”, a film documenting resistance by the military against the war in Iraq, as well as 1300 packets of leaflets, including VFP and IVAW applications, Appeal for Redress, GI Rights pocket cards, and other materials. Sometime after they did this outreach they discovered that the PX and other locations on the base were discussing the materials that they had delivered.

    Thus Spake Ortner at The Sniper discovered the IVAW’s intention to testify in front of a Congressional committee next week to counter General Petreaus’ testimony last month – from veterans who haven’t been in the theater since General Petreaus took command. As it stands right now, both TSO and I intend to team up again and attend these festivities like we did at Winter Soldier to bring you the unvarnished truth.

    I guess the point of all this is that the battle for the minds of the people against this insidious campaign to pervert the truth and turn Americans against our returning soldiers, is not over and it may have just begun. We’ve scored some significant victories in the last 14 months, but the battle continues.

    Crossposted at Eagles Up! Talon

  • IVAW’s misinformation campaign continues

    There’s a website I go to sometimes called the IVAW OneStop that IVAW uses to keep track of everything that shows up on the web about them so they can swoop in on the website and squelch the negative comments. However it works both ways. Whenever they type something about themselves, we can see it, too.

    Take for example Adam Kokesh. How many times have we heard him say that he only wants to end the war because he supports the troops. Well, from his website, how’s this for support for the troops;

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    He’s pretty proud of it, since it was made by his roommate. He supports the troops by insinuating that the troops are a bunch of retards.

    Well, I found the cute little picture above on his website since there was a press release on the IVAW One Stop that he’d taken Winter Soldier on the road because the real Winter Soldier event was such a disappointment both to the participants and the media.

    “We are happy to host Sergeant Kokesh. His efforts to end the occupation and war have been tireless. He shows that the best way to support the troops, and the people of Iraq, is by the immediate and unequivocal end to the illegal U.S. invasion and war.” said Carolyn S. Scarr of the Ecumenical Peace Institute, organizer of the weekly vigils.

    Kokesh will also encourage students at East Bay high schools and the College of Marin not to enlist for military service. Thousands of service members are involuntarily having their tours of duty extended through the military’s stop loss program, keeping them in harms way and increasing the mental and emotional strain on each soldier. According to a study by the Rand Corporation, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan – nearly 300,000 individuals – suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And documents released in a San Francisco Federal class action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs reveal that 18 veterans kill themselves everyday. For the sake of the troops, and the people of Iraq, the war must end now.

    He still calls himself “Segeant Kokesh” even though he was busted from the rank of sergeant years before he was discharged for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from Iraq. His DD214 says he’s a private – that’s his rank for life, not sergeant.

    Oh, yeah and that little blurb about “He shows that the best way to support the troops, and the people of Iraq, is by the immediate and unequivocal end to the illegal U.S. invasion and war.” Well that and making fun of troops by calling them stupid and glue-eating retards.

    Across the country, IVAW took their roadshow to UMASS;

    Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) held an event Wednesday night to voice their opposition to United States involvement in Iraq.

    Since its inception in 2004, IVAW has made three demands: the immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq, reparations for the human and structural damages Iraq has suffered and full benefits, like adequate health care (including mental health) and other supports for returning servicemen and women.

    The evening started off with film clips from “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan,” an event held in Washington, D.C., last March. The footage served to set the tone as veterans discussed the ineffectiveness of U.S. forces in urban areas, racial issues, a disregard for the rules of engagement and a lack of leadership from the higher-ups in the chain of command. All of these problems would be further expounded upon by the IVAW panel from the Amherst chapter.

    Apparently, since the media decided their Winter Soldier theater was pedestrian, and since there were veterans in the room who could call bullshit on them, IVAW has decided to go around the Truth, and take their lies straight to the minds of mush – and maybe score some hairy-legged hippie chics in the process.

    But there’s more.

    I found a website called “We Move To Canada” ostensibly for and by war resisters in Canada. they spread propaganda like this;

    At this week’s meeting of the War Resisters Support Campaign, a new resister joined the circle. Also present was a resister who is back in Canada after serving time in a US military brig. He went back to the US to visit his family and was picked up on a traffic violation. A license check revealed his AWOL status, and it went from there.

    Both of these young men told us that the US military jails are overflowing with “UA”s, as they called them – servicepeople who went AWOL and were caught. Jail conditions are horrible, although our newest resister told us he didn’t care, as it was suicide to do anything else.

    By some reports from very credible sources, there are as many as 25,000 AWOL US soldiers out there. I can’t substantiate that, but even if that figure is slightly inflated, it’s clear that large numbers of US military personnel are resisting this terrible, useless war.

    Yeah, the jails are teaming with war resisters. Does anyone honestly think there are 25,000 mothers keeping their mouths shut about their sons and daughters being shut up in horrible conditions in prisons across the country? I mean please.

    Then there’s this little blurb on the Socialist Worker in a movie review of “Stop-Loss”, which the reviewer, IVAW member Martin Smith. claims isn’t anti-war enough (I’m shocked he’d think that);

    In a dramatic confrontation, King tells his lieutenant commander, “With all due respect, ***k the president.” It is a moment that brought standing ovations and cheers from active-duty service people at a theater outside Fort Carson, according to Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) members who had passed out copies of Sit-Rep, the IVAW newsletter, at the film’s premiere.

    Yeah, the IVAW members who were passing out anti-war propaganda at the theater said it happened, so it must’ve happened. I mean it was reported in that most reputable periodical the Socialist Worker by another IVAW member.

    That’s why they continue this behavior – they live in an echo chamber of sociopaths where the same rumors and the same sick jokes get passed around and get the seal of approval from the other sociopaths. But they still support the troops and they still claim to love this country. Their actions speak louder than their words.

  • Now he wants to be a Marine

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    Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., center, gets a loose ball as Kory Mckay, left, watches during a ‘3-on-3 Challenge for Change’ basketball game at Maple Crest Elementary School in Kokomo, Ind., Friday, April 25, 2008. Obama is wearing a U.S. Marine corp T-shirt, given to him by an agent in his security detail.

    Reader Ray reminded me of this today. I saw it on Fox and Friends this morning and of course the USMC thing jumped right out at me. The picture caption said the shirt was loaned to him by the Secret Service detail,but still…. He wasn’t wearing a T-shirt under his suit? Why the USMC shirt? Everyone knows that Obama doesn’t do something without thinking it through. He started wearing a flag pin recently for his phony patriotism and now he wants to be a phony Marine.

    Reader Ray wrote;

    Am I the only Veteran irritated by BHO using a USMC shirt for a photo op? It seems to me that the only candidate who has any right to wear a BTDT shirt is McCain. I am a firm believer in the “if you didn’t earn it, don’t wear it” school of thought.

    No, Ray you’re not the only veteran irritated by this, as I’m sure other readers will join you in their dissatisfaction.

  • [Fill in the blank] Against the War

    I had an email exchange with Thus Spake Ortner this morning (that’s right, IVAW, not everything I say about ya’all is public) that got me to thinking. He sent me a link of an IVAW member named PJSChicago who wrote about how the evil Army made him into a killer without him realizing it. He ends his wildly idiotic rant with;

    When I think back on what the Army made me capable of, I feel angry because I’m only figuring it out now. Duped again! 12 years of learning to hate and learning to want to kill people because it was kill or be killed.

    He joined the infantry and was assigned to an artillery unit, what did he think the Army wanted him for? Some worldwide meals-on-wheels program? But that’s not my point, actually. TSO wrote another piece on another IVAW goofball, Thomas J. Buonomo, a homey, actually, from Rochester, New York who spent four years in the Air Force Academy and then got tossed out of the Army for being an advocate for the impeachment of Dick Cheney.

    So what does PJSChicago and Inmate Buonomo have in common? The same thing alot of IVAW members seem to have in common – they’ve never been to Iraq but they’re in an organization called IRAQ VETERANS Against the War. Am I the only one who thinks this is disingenuous?

    Back a few years ago, I went to photograph the Code Pink Mother’s Day protest at the White House. There were about 8 ladies holding a twenty-foot long banner that read “Mothers Against the War”. After taking their pictures, I asked them how many were really mothers – they all pointed at one woman. I asked her if she had a son or daughter in the military. She replied her son was in the Army. I asked her if he was in Iraq or Afghanistan and she said ‘no’…then she confessed that her son had gotten out of the military ten years earlier.

    Out of eight women with a “Mothers Against the War” banner, only one actually qualified as a mother – and her son wasn’t in the military and not in danger of being sent to Iraq. So what was the point?

    What’s the motivation of joining an organization that claims to be something that it’s really not? And why should we believe anything else they tell us if their name is even a lie? Are you guys scoring hot, hairy-legged hippy chics and they didn’t seem taken with your first choice of names – Doofuses Against the War?

  • IVAW and what I won’t do

    As most of my regular readers know, I went to the Winter Soldier theater and live-blogged from the National Labor College in Silver Spring, Maryland on March 15th. It was a pretty tough gig, pressure-wise, and I didn’t like being around a bunch of people who’d rather see me dead than there.I watched them tackle 61-year-old Gerry Kiley and drag him from the room, and it was probably as atrocious as anything the witnesses were testifying to on the stage. Through the hours I was there, I wondered when it was going to be my turn to be tackled and dragged from the room by the Labor thugs providing security at the event.

    Halfway through the proceedings, Thus Spake Ortner and I had to give up up the URLs of our blogs because Geoff Millard wanted to play commissar of information (for the record, other members of the IVAW already had our URLs, but Millard wanted us to know that he was personally monitoring us). I imagined that what I felt was what many journalists from the West felt when they wrote from inside the Soviet Union. But it lent an air of authenticity to what we were doing. Millard, quite by accident, I’m sure, gave us additional credibility.

    I hate the IVAW, I hate what they stand for, I hate what they’re doing to this country and I hate that most of them are doing what they do for very selfish and petty reasons. That being said, I found the limits of my hate this morning.

    Apparently, someone on my own side thought I would lie for our cause. Someone who shall remain nameless tried to tell an Army investigator what I heard and witnessed inside Winter Soldier – something this person couldn’t know mainly because the incident I was asked about never happened.

    This whole blog is about the Left and their inability to recognize the truth when it hits them between the eyes. I take video and pictures of the Left with little comment and I’ve never asked for a pose because I feel that the Left does enough damage to itself that they don’t need me to point it out or shape it – I just need to be there to record it.

    I don’t belong to any of the organizations involved in the discussion because I at least want to keep an air of credibility and I want to continue to enjoy access to all of the sides of the discussion.

    I will not, under any circumstances, violate my readers’ trust in me to provide them the unvarnished truth here. I don’t have a journalist’s code of ethics that I need to follow, just my own code. I put my real name on this blog because I’m not afraid of telling the truth and after this blog is gone, I still have to live with the name and the reputation I build here.

    I will not sell this blog and it’s readers down the river for a couple of cheap shots at the IVAW. Lord knows, they do enough to damage their reputation without me having to testify to things that never happened.

    Anyone else out there who thinks they have a brainstorm plan to undermine IVAW, please keep your lips off my name. Anything I know about illegal activities inside the IVAW, the authorities already know.

  • Winter Soldier coverage has FAIR’s panties bunched

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    Winter Soldier didn’t turn out so well. The stories were weak and pedestrian. The testimony didn’t cause the national outrage that the prima donnas of the anti-war had hoped. The IVAW had convinced the other bands of merry protesters to suspend plans for their protests in Washington so as not to distract the media from their antics at the National Labor College – that move may have affected the turn out for the anti-war protest later that week.

    Well, of course, it must be someone’s fault that Winter Soldier fizzled, right? Well, the Left has decided that it’s the New York Time’s fault. They’ve enlisted the leftist media watchdog organization Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR) to get to the bottom of why the Grey Lady didn’t bother to cover the Winter Soldier theater.

    First of all let me tell you, I saw reporters and technicians from countless news organizations. I wasn’t allowed to film the media or I’d show you how the back of the conference was packed with media. I saw media from the Washington Post, the Associated Press, Reuters, NPR even Al Jazeera (they all had media passes with their organization printed on them). It looked like the New York Times was about the only media not represented.

    But that’s not going to stop FAIR from “investigating”. They wrote a letter to NYT’s public editor asking for answers. Basically, the Times, in the personage of one Clark Hoyt, responded that they’d prefer their own reports from their paid staff than to rely on a pack of juvenile malcontents for their serious news.

    I’m no fan of the New York Times, but given the history of their recent problems with paid staff, I don’t think I blame them for being a bit more cautious. But that only angered the folks at FAIR;

    Hoyt’s claim that “news organizations like the Times, with its own substantial investment in independent reporting from Iraq, tend to prefer their own on-scene accounts of the war” is akin to asserting that reporters on the police beat prefer to write about crimes they have seen themselves rather than talking to eyewitnesses. Given that Times reporters, like all Western journalists in Iraq, have great difficulty travelling freely outside the Green Zone, it is hard to imagine that they could provide a full and accurate picture of the war without interviewing people who have participated in it. And of course the paper does often interview U.S. military personnel about what they’ve seen, though when they are whistleblowers trying to call attention to what they describe as “the human consequences of failed policy,” the Times suddenly has much less interest in what they have to say.

    Of course, to reach that conclusion, FAIR is assuming that the “whistleblowers” at Winter Soldier were rational people with no ulterior motives other than bringing the truth out. Although that may be the case for two people that I can name, I doubt the motives of the others, and they’ve not given me reason to doubt my initial impressions since. The New York Times may have decided that it wasn’t wise to stake the remnants of their reputation on a band of misfits who had already proven themselves to be unreliable sources.

    My buddy Denis Keohane of Obiter Dictum had another take on it in an email exchange we had today;

    I don’t think anyone could have foreseen that at the very time IVAW would hold their WSI, the Democrats would be engaged in a brutal nomination fight that could conceivably cost that party the next election. The MSM, including the NY Times, fears that and is trying to protect the Democrats chances for the fall. I strongly believe that is one reason why the WSI got virtually zero MSM coverage. If it was covered and got attention, someone may just ask Hillary or Barrack their view on it – and the organic material hits the oscillating device! Neither Democrat wants any association with the far left moonbats of IVAW or Code Pink, etc., but neither can either afford to alienate them since the far left can cripple any Democrat trying to get the nomination. Odd that it is the IVAW vets who are expendable to their side.

    That probably makes sense, too. Probably more sense than the NYT’s explanation that no one in the Washington bureau knew about the event, and that all of their national security reporters were busy that day. It certainly makes more sense than FAIR implying that the New York Times is biased against the anti-war movement.

    h/t to Michael for the tip