{"id":13041,"date":"2009-07-29T05:37:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T10:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13041"},"modified":"2009-07-29T05:37:21","modified_gmt":"2009-07-29T10:37:21","slug":"ivaw-the-peace-movements-stalking-horse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13041","title":{"rendered":"IVAW; the peace movement&#8217;s stalking horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All week we&#8217;ve been running a series about the prospective Board of Directors of the IVAW. As we documented, the IVAW is more interested in being a band of peace activists than a veterans&#8217; organization like <a href=\"http:\/\/votevets.org\/pages\/?id=0020\">Vote Vets worries more about Democrat legislative priorities<\/a> than veterans&#8217; issue. Well, here&#8217;s something I found last night in my usual perusal of the lunatic Left;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/call-for-action.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13042\" title=\"call-for-action\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/call-for-action.jpg\" alt=\"call-for-action\" width=\"405\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/call-for-action.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/call-for-action-300x246.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice were it says &#8220;Endorsers (list in formation)&#8221;? IVAW is the first organization listed &#8211; that means they&#8217;ll be in the front of the protest march. Why? What does the G-20 conference have to do with veterans? Are they withholding some benefits? Closing veterans facilities? The IVAW refugees who hang out here have told us that the third plank of their platform (Full benefits, adequate healthcare (including mental health), and other support for returning servicemen and women) was more of an after thought than a real goal.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview last year, Medea Benjamin said that IVAW gives the peace movement it&#8217;s &#8220;street creds&#8221;, that&#8217;s why whenever you see Medea in DC, her poodle Geoffrey [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5858\">Stolen Valor<\/a>] Millard is near. That&#8217;s all that matters to the peace movement, using the IVAW for a stalking horse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All week we&#8217;ve been running a series about the prospective Board of Directors of the IVAW. &hellip; <a title=\"IVAW; the peace movement&#8217;s stalking horse\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13041\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVAW; the peace movement&#8217;s stalking horse<\/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":[8,37,30,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041","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=13041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}