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.
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.
Honduras is holding their national elections today, which has the potential of settling the dispute between the Honduran Constitution and deposed president Manuel Zelaya. Since Zelaya isn’t allowed to run again, why does he feel that a boycott would settle anything? Well, of course, it wouldn’t.
Latin American countries including Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela have said they won’t recognize the results because the former leader hasn’t been restored to power. The International Monetary Fund froze Honduras’s access to $163 million in special drawing rights after Zelaya’s ouster.
Zelaya, who isn’t a candidate, has said the vote is illegitimate and urged Hondurans to stay home. In September, he had said that the vote should take place.
Bloomberg fails to mention that the reason Zelaya isn’t a candidate is because Honduran presidents are term-limited to a single stint in office. That’s why he booted from office in June – because he tried to undermine the Constitution.
In RealClearWorld, Fausta Wertz of Fausta’s Blog reports that the current candidate from Zelaya’s party is not calling for a boycott;
While Zelaya’s been asking his followers to boycott the election, zelayista candidate César Ham is still running and is not promoting a boycott. Candidate Pepe Lobo is ahead in the opinion polls.
So, when Zelaya’s supporters are left out of the election by their boycott, they’ll revolt, and there will be no peace in Honduras – and it’ll ultimately be the result of Zelaya’s massive ego.
For some reason, yesterday Jon Soltz at VetsVoice decided he’d give thanks to the troops on Thanksgiving by complaining that some of them are doing too many deployments to our War Against Terror.
While I agree, I think it’s a bit disingenuous of an Army Reserve captain still on duty to type an angry missive about the over-extension of our forces when he’s only done ONE three month tour of Iraq way back in 2003 followed by a grueling 13 month tour of Fort Dix, NJ teaching other motor pool queens and DA Form 2404 filers how to adapt their skills to a sandy motor pool.
It seems to me that if Soltz is so worried about the number of deployments some of his “peers” are making, he’d throw himself into the mix and volunteer to take some pressure off of them. I mean, he’s got six years of “dwell time”.
Me? I volunteered for the Retiree Mobilization back in 2006 when the Army called my Army Reserve niece, a mother of two pre-schoolers, wife of a OIF Marine veteran, to deploy. I figured if they needed her, they’d need me. I just haven’t been fortunate enough to be accepted yet.
Poor Carl Webb is complaining about being persecuted by the IVAW board because they won’t let him spread his “message of justice” – that message being that insurgents should be encouraged to kill American troops. Of course, Iraqi Dahlia Wasfi, you know, one of those Iraqis who live in the safety of the US but thinks she’s an activist for the Iraqi people agrees with Webb.
This is what passes for martyrdom in the US leftist mind;
I love that super-smart Wasfi stoops to quoting Doctor Phil. Wasfi was born in New York City, but spent part of her early childhood in Iraq – but her family moved back to the US. I wonder why?
It seems to me that if she’s so damned worried about the “US Occupation” of Iraq, she’d want to fight against it instead of sitting in relative splendor here in the US. And she should take motor-mouth Webb with her. Then Webb can actually fight against US troops instead of just sitting on someone else’s couch and encouraging Iraqis to fight – flapping his unemployable gums.
A pair of ignorant hypocrites.
Oh, by the way, remember the guy who wrote on the IVAW website that “IVAW Supports Killing American troops“? Geoff Millard threatened to have him tossed out of the organization but Jose Velasquez settled on just giving him a letter of reprimand. I don’t see his name on the website anymore.
Didn’t someone on this forum threaten to resign if the guy was punished?
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.
Speaking of oppression, here’s a comment that Webb left on YouTube to a disabled female Desert Storm veteran;
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?
Last night, an IVAW member posted this on the “Members Speak” portion of their website;
This morning it’s been removed from the IVAW website and the member is being considered for expulsion because the IVAW Board of Directors couldn’t summon the testicular fortitude to boot Carl Webb and it’s just easier to persecute members who oppose their support of violence and sabotage.
The word is that Carl Webb has been asked to leave IVAW. I can’t verify that, but his profile is gone;
Here’s why he’s disappeared for the time being;
In other news, something happened at Darnall Hospital at Fort Hood the other day involving some IVAW members. Apparently, one member was thought to be suicidal by his chain of command, but the mental health experts at Under The Hood Cafe thought they knew better and went to the hospital – who knows why.
Now this fellow mixbyspyke has been talking to every media source he can find to tell the world that the Army wouldn’t give him help when he needed it – now the Army moves to stop what they thought was suicidal behavior (no, I don’t know what that was) and Kern tries to make it sound like they didn’t like the guy’s T-shirt.
So as far as the ass-clowns at UTHC are concerned, they’re the only people trained well enough to spot suicidal behavior. Anyway, here’s mixbyspyke’s account of the incident in his own version of English – obviously not his first language;
During a meeting at Under the Hood cafe, the chapter was informed that one of our members was admitted to the Carl R Darnell [sic] Medical Facility, for supposed suicidal tendency’s [sic]. We had just seen this member not to [sic] long ago and knew he was having problems with his chain of command for wherein [sic] a IVAW shirt on post. The chain of command told to [sic] soldier to report to staff duty and once he got there was placed on line of sight and taken to the ER because (according to the chain of command) someone had “called” staff duty to tell them that there [sic] soldier was going to kill himself. Our member was shocked by this news went along peacefully making sure to say that he was NOT suicidal but would get evaluated to put his chain of command worry s [sic] at ease… The rest of the chapter got the news of this and was concerned, and wanted to see if they could help so five of us piled into a car and went down there to the ER. At the ER our member was not in the waiting room so after asking if he had been admitted we told [sic] a seat and sat quietly to wait for the arrival of our friend. Apparently we were not allowed sit in there waiting to see if our friend was ok… the police told us that the hospitals standard operating procedure was to only allow family and chain of command in there, witch [sic] is false, but we left respectfully after the police said that we were trying to make a statement, witch [sic] for the record we were not! long story short a group of veterans can sit in the hospital wearing IVAW shirts lol.
** ATTENTION **
the member has since been released from the hospital and now is restricted to post and told not to were [sic] his IVAW shirt anymore, by the same chain of command that threatend [sic] the soldier saying ” i will kick your ass if i ever see you wearing that shirt ever again”
– Last time I spoke to this soldier he was still wearing it and is filing complainants [sic] against his chain of command!
So the Army is damned if they do and damned if they don’t. This can all be traced back to Cindy Thomas’ yammering about young commanders who don’t know what they’re doing. Like Cindy is an expert on anything besides working people into a frenzy while they’re hopped up on coffee.
Someone sent me an article from a CUNY LaGuardia newletter in which Matthis Chiroux does his best Ward Reilly impersonation, trying to sound like a combat veteran for the hairy-legged hippie chicks at college;
Matthis Chiroux, a veteran at LaGuardia, and the last speaker, had the most powerful message of the event. According to Chiroux, out of all the nations in the world, the greatest threat to peace is not Iraq, Russia, or Iran, it’s the US. “USA has been involved in 80 wars since it became a colony,” said Chiroux in astonishment. As a veteran, Chiroux has firsthand knowledge about the gruesome nature of war. He once believed that what he was doing was right. However, his perspective changed when he saw innocent civilians slaughtered for a war they wanted no part of. He saw himself as a “tool for murder,” and refused to continue taking part in the war.He left the army as soon as he got the chance. Now, he speaks against the government in hopes that the US will cease “its’ dictatorial policies under the guise of ‘peace’” and leave other countries alone to live in peace.
Chiroux had “firsthand knowledge about the gruesome nature of war”…well, he had second or third or fourth hand knowledge of war. He saw innocent civilians slaughtered – well he was in a movie theater at the time , but he sat right up front and he was closer to the slaughter than anyone else in the theater that day.
In order to “continue” taking part in a war, you have to have taken part in it in the first place, Matthis. the only thing that he gets right in his little speech to moon-eyed community college chicks is that he’s a tool.
I ran across this photo of Chiroux – I think it’s from last year before he was discharged;
Notice he’s wearing an IVAW patch for a combat patch. Anything to perpetuate the image of combat veteran. Just like Ward Reilly.
