{"id":10702,"date":"2009-05-15T06:23:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T11:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=10702"},"modified":"2009-05-15T07:58:45","modified_gmt":"2009-05-15T12:58:45","slug":"more-on-duncanstrandlof","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=10702","title":{"rendered":"More on Duncan\/Strandlof (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t read the Greyhawk family’s research on our favorite mental patient\/IVAW member over at the Mudville Gazette<\/a>, you still don’t know the whole story. They recount a scam in his pre-Rick Duncan days that landed him in mental health treatment and later led to his scamming of the anti-war movement. <\/p>\n

It seems that the Colorado Veterans Alliance has decided to fold<\/a> under the weight of this investigation of Duncan\/Strandlof’s deceit.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Blackfive<\/a>‘s Mr Wolf sends a Denver Post<\/a> article that reports that Democrats are a little miffed at being fooled, too;<\/p>\n

He spoke at a Barack Obama veterans rally in front of the Capitol in July, co-hosted several events with then- congressional candidate Jared Polis and attacked Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer in a TV ad paid for by the national group Votevets.org.<\/p>\n

And the mostly Democratic candidates he supported \u2014 looking for credibility on veterans issues and the war \u2014 lapped it up appreciatively.<\/p>\n

Now, politicians are dealing with news that the man they believed to be a former Marine and war veteran wounded in Iraq by a roadside bomb, in fact, never served in the military \u2014 but did spend time in a mental hospital.<\/p>\n

Many of the candidates he supported won their elections handily and now say they were defrauded as much as anyone else.<\/p>\n

“His fraud is a slap in the face to veterans everywhere and a betrayal to us all,” Rep. Polis, a Boulder Democrat, said in a written statement Thursday. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His fraud was easily detectable, the Democrats just happened to be enamored with his message more than verifying who he was. They liked the fact that a gay veteran was willing to speak out for them – never mind that he’s not who he says he is. After all, the Democrats have always placed more importance on form over substance. Who cares if Duncan\/Strandlof wasn’t a veteran – he had a uniform on while he said all of the pretty words they wanted to hear.<\/p>\n

It’s the same reason that he was accepted into the IVAW and Vote Vets – he made a nice centerpiece and said everything they wanted him to say. Who cares if he was an empty suit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven’t read the Greyhawk family’s research on our favorite mental patient\/IVAW member over at … More on Duncan\/Strandlof (Updated)<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}