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Category: Usual Suspects

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  • Washington Post: Top Secret America

    The Washington Post has published an interactive website that seeks to uncover the secrecy of the American defense network pronouncing that it’s “A hidden world, growing beyond control”. The defense network is a little worried about the Washington Post’s story, since obviously, it exposes some companies to espionage and terrorism that were never exposed before.

    The Pentagon warned contractors last week about the article with letters like this one that I found in my inter-web travels;

    After quickly going through some of the stuff that the Washington Post put up online, I noticed that one of the two main “reporters” on this article is William Arkin. You remember Arkin, right? back in early 2007, Arkin wrote a column about how the US troops don’t appreciate regular Americans enough. That they really have cushy jobs and get more pay and “obscene amenities” than they deserve. At the time, I did some research on Arkin’s background. This is what I found about him on Peace.net – where his bio has disappeared;

    His bio claims he was an intel weinie who “engaged in a number of covert intelligence collection projects” which means someone let him debrief an infantry patrol occasionally – which is probably why he hates real soldiers. Why would an intelligence analyst go to work for Greenpeace as their “military specialist”?

    That article has understandably disappeared from the internet, so has the one in which he called our troops mercenaries. He was a pogue back in the 70’s in Berlin for a few years, so how does that make him an expert on defense policy? Well, because after his service, he worked for Greenpeace, Human Rights Watch and his email address links back to the “Institute for Global Communications” – the parent of Peace.net and Labor.net so that makes him an expert on those opposed to our defense policies.

    Later that year, Arkin was disappointed that he wasn’t invited to the Milblog Conference. Aside from the fact that no one gets a personal invitation, why would the milblogs invite the idiot pogue who doesn’t appreciate the troops.

    There’s more on the Post toy for hippies at RedState.

    Bill O’Reilly, tracked down Arkin in Vermont back in 2007, probably the last worthwhile thing that O’Reilly ever did;

  • This Whittenberg guy needs real help

    Whittenberg

    The guy in the picture above is former IVAW member Bobby Whittenberg. Bobby is an actual veteran of the Iraq War. He has a Purple Heart to prove it – one reason I’ve been reluctant to say much about him. I’m convinced he’s in need of serious help.

    Whittenberg has been heavily influenced by VFP thug Doug Zachary and former IVAW member Carl Webb and more recently, Matthis Chiroux.

    Here are some screen shots someone sent me of Whittenberg’s announcement of his resignation;




    Of course, Whittenberg couldn’t let the IVAW convention go by without a shout to his socialist buddies;

    And in another attempt to plea for help, Whittenberg burns a flag – away from public view and after a soliloquy that borders on insanity.

    And, oh, this hated, imperialist US government sends Whittenberg a disability check every month right on time. And he cashes each and every one of them.

    This guy clearly needs an intervention, but because he fit the image that IVAW wanted to portray of the nut-job veteran, he was encouraged. And now he’s out there on his own and the mad dog finally bit his master. And like Casey Porter said, now Whittenberg is having an impact on younger soldiers.

    So, let’s hear your excuses for this one, IVAW.

  • Hide your children, Killeen

    Someone sent me this screen shot of Matthis navel-gazing. So Matthis is thinking about a change of scenery to play with the goofballs at Under the Hood Cafe in Killeen outside the gates of Fort Hood, TX. I don’t see it actually. Killeen isn’t metropolitan enough for an urbane city dweller like Matthis.

    In this Facebook missive, he wonders what happened to the IVAW of the Winter Soldier days – he joined AFTER Winter Soldier when it began it’s precipitous fall from an actual anti-war group to an arm of the socialists and ne’er do wells. Just before all of the real Iraq veterans left the organization and left it an empty shell of cowards, drama queens and people like Matthis who were more concerned with their own comforts than actually opposing the war from a practical point-of-view.

    Am I the only one who noticed that the exodus from IVAW began soon after Matthis joined? Of course, I fully support his foray into the POS Under the Hood cafe – he can probably destroy it faster than I can.

  • An incomplete list of new IVAW board members

    The names of the new IVAW board members are beginning to trickle in from a few sources. The preliminary results are;

    Robynn Murray
    Logan Mehl Laituri (One Year Term)
    TJ Buonomo
    Jeremy Stainthorp Berggren
    Joyce Wagner

    I’m glad Laituri made it – maybe he can steer the organization in a half-way decent direction. Scott stirred my memory about Jeremy Stainthorpe Berggen earlier today. he’s the guy who thinks he got PTSD from NOT deploying. Robynn Murray is the ditz who didn’t really have any complaints about her time the Army and Iraq yet tried to sound like she did. She also accompanied Matthis on stage when he burned the flag alongside Elaine Brower. TJ Buonomo and I are old acquaintances. Joyce Wagner, an actual Iraq War veteran blasted Matthis for burning the flag in their name.

    Three of the new board members are actual Iraq War veterans (Murray, Laituri and Wagner), the other two are not – Buonomo waited until he graduated from the Air Force Academy before he voiced his opposition to the war and Berggren got PTSD from dreaming about his buddies in the mortuary unit who did deploy.

    On another note, Bill Perry, the old 1971 VVAW Winter Soldier, counted the votes. He claims that IVAW’s resolutions on Immigration, War Crimes and Gaza were passed. I don’t have the text on those yet, but I will. Apparently, some rock gruop sang a song about Miss International Pancake, Rachel Corrie and that coupled with an Ann Wright fairy tale about the plight of Palestinians was influential in the vote on Gaza. Regular readers will remember how well-informed Ann Wright is about Gaza – like she was well-informed about the Mavi Marmara.

    But Perry can’t help but rant incoherent BS about a 1,000 years of crusades against the Palestinians armed only with bottle rockets. If i can get my stupid computer to work, I’ll up load the screen shot of Perry’s rant.

    Update: Here’s Perry’s anti-Israel rant

  • Duff laments Hussein’s removal

    I try to stay away from Veterans Today and Gordon Duff the website’s chief editor. But it’s like trying to look away from an eclipse – you know it’s bad for you, but you can’t look away. Duff took the opportunity this 4th of July weekend, usually a time to celebrate the promise of America, to blame the US for all wars in the last century.

    Duff goes on to suggest that if the US should have joined the kaiser in The Great War instead of the allies, that would have prevented all of the wars which followed. I guess he never heard of the Zimmerman Telegram or the sinkng of the Lusitania.

    But the best paragraphs are about our more recent wars;

    Saddam simply couldn’t believe the United States was so stupid. He kept extremists at bay, kept terrorists out of Iraq, produced oil for the United States and kept it flowing as expected, bought everything we had to sell and paid his bills on time. Can we believe all the terrible things he did? Yes, some of them. Inside his own country, the sheiks with the real power were getting sick of him.

    Saddam was sounding more and more like, well, Dick Cheney, a liability even in a dictatorship. In the end, however, whatever bad Saddam had done, paled in comparison with the damage America did, bringing in mobster-bankster rule, starting a civil war, loading Iraq withterrorists, and leaving the country in ruins with well over one million dead and millions more in poverty.

    Kind of like saying “Well, at least Hitler kept the trains running on time”. Duff buys into every conspiracy theory about Iraq in the space of a few paragraphs. But he doesn’t stop there. he turns his pop gun on the Afghanistan war;

    There would be no reason to draw the United States into Afghanistan, certainly 9/11 had nothing to do with it, there were no terrorists in Afghanistan at that time, unless something else was going on. What was going on that needed the US to be pushed into an area so remote that resupplying troops is almost impossible, an area where running terrorist operations from is equally insane.

    I don’t think even the IVAW, which opposes the Afghanistan War, too, is stupid enough to claim there were no terrorists in Afghanistan on 9-11, and no one was running terrorist operations from Afghanistan. But at least we know that IVAW foes have a fan base at Veterans Today.

  • Matthis is Batman

    I dunno, someone sent me this today and I thought it was hilarious. You might not think so and that’s OK.

    I think the funniest parts are the Polly Purehearts who worry about his well-being. What a bunch of doinks.

  • Vets Today & IVAW

    You guys all remember super-douche Gordon Duff and his merry band of peckerheads at Veterans Today, right? Well, I always figured that they would love the commies and socialists at IVAW and wondered why Vets Today generally avoided a relationship – after all, Gordon Duff wasn’t afraid to marry his publication to Mossad plots against Moscow and other crackpot shit.

    Well, finally one of the less senior wackos (not less wacko, just less senior than Duff) on the staff, Robert Hanafin dragged them out of the non-gay closet today. After complaining that his job is so difficult at Veterans Today (it’s tough trying to link Dick Cheney to zombie sightings, ya know), Hanifin tells us that he discriminates in lending VSO-type aid to veterans who don’t think like he thinks;

    Thus, I must maintain a policy of only providing assistance and advice to Veterans and Military Families who question their wars, have no one else to turn to for advice, and are discriminated against by the mainstream VSOs for their ability to THINK.

    Veterans Today frankly has no Veterans Service Officers on staff anyway, nor do we possess the political clout of mainstream VSOs who are too close to Congress and politicians for comfort. Thus, I’ve made a conscientious decision to refer any Vet or family member unable to question the war(s) onto a mainstream VSO. They should be able to satisfy your needs without discrimination, since you strongly support continuing the wars.

    Then he tells us that we should all go to the IVAW convention in Austin;

    So, a website called “Veterans Today” complains that they’re considered crackpots by nearly every recognized VSO, and then immediately announces their intention to have a political litmus test for the veterans who might seek their help. Of course, their refusal to help certain types of veterans is probably doing those veterans a huge favor. And then highlights the IVAW convention – an organization jam-packed with and lead by non-Iraq War veterans.

    Who’s the real phony here?