{"id":12616,"date":"2009-07-15T07:05:57","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T12:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2009-07-18T11:15:03","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T16:15:03","slug":"army-withdraws-birthers-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12616","title":{"rendered":"Army withdraws Birther&#8217;s orders (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Update below the jump)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the Army withdrew the movement orders for Major Stefan Cook, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12598\">the fella we wrote about yesterday<\/a> who refused to deploy to Afghanistan based on his belief that President Barack Obama isn&#8217;t a US citizen. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ledger-enquirer.com\/news\/story\/777622.html\">Columbus Ledger-Enquirer<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Lt. Col. Maria Quon, U.S. Army Public Affairs Officer, U.S. Army Human Resources Command-St. Louis, said Tuesday evening Cook was no longer expected to report Wednesday to MacDill Air Force Base in Florida for mobilization to active duty.<\/p>\n<p>Cook is an Individual Mobilization Augmentee, meaning he is a reserve soldier assigned to an active component unit for duty. He is assigned to the U.S. Army Element of U.S. Southern Command. Last week Cook filed a request in federal court through his California-based attorney, Orly Taitz, seeking a temporary restraining order and status as a conscientious objector. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Major Numbnuts avoided some jail time, and the Obama Administration renews the paranoia from the birthers. I can hardly blame the Army wanting to be free of the antics of Orly Taintz, Cook&#8217;s dentist-turned-real estate agent-turned-lawyer-turned crackpot nirther, but they must realize how this makes the whole thing look.<\/p>\n<p>Me? I&#8217;m more concerned about the impending health care atrocity and the deficit. And Cook is still a criminal and the Left is still hypocritical for not supporting him.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSpeaking of hypocrisy, Keith Olbermann named Cook and Taint the &#8220;worst person in the world&#8221; for being &#8220;an embarrassment to all those who have served without cowardice.&#8221; I don&#8217;t remember him calling any other evader &#8220;worst person in the world&#8221;. And then some how Olbermann makes it about &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; like his buddy Jon Soltz would, I&#8217;m sure. <\/p>\n<p>The Cook story comes in at about 2:40 in this video;<\/p>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"339\" width=\"425\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22425001\/vp\/31914146#31914146\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;\">Visit msnbc.com for <a style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\">Breaking News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">World News<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" style=\"text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#5799DB !important;\">News about the Economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>UPDATED: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mudvillegazette.com\/032369.html\">Greyhawk discovers<\/a> some nefarious stuff going on;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Returning now to the news of Cook&#8217;s &#8220;victory&#8221;, here&#8217;s the reported explanation for the Army&#8217;s decision:<\/p>\n<p>    Earlier today, Quon said Cook submitted a formal written request to Human Resources Command-St. Louis on May 8, 2009 volunteering to serve one year in Afghanistan with Special Operations Command, U.S. Army Central Command, beginning July 15, 2009. The soldier&#8217;s orders were issued on June 9, Quon said.<\/p>\n<p>    &#8220;A reserve soldier who volunteers for an active duty tour may ask for a revocation of orders up until the day he is scheduled to report for active duty,&#8221; Quon said.<\/p>\n<p>In short &#8211; Cook never had to go in the first place. Unlike most soldiers who deploy as part of a unit, Cook &#8211; a reservist &#8211; had volunteered to go as an individual augmentee. The Army generally seeks volunteers to fill such assignments first &#8211; if no one does so then a non-volunteer is tapped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So it looks like he volunteered for a deployment just to make a federal case out the birth certificate. That still doesn&#8217;t let the Left off the hook, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Update below the jump) Apparently, the Army withdrew the movement orders for Major Stefan Cook, the &hellip; <a title=\"Army withdraws Birther&#8217;s orders (Updated)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=12616\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army withdraws Birther&#8217;s orders (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":[8,83,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-breaking-news","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616","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=12616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}