{"id":1342,"date":"2008-03-13T08:51:52","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2008-05-23T23:01:15","modified_gmt":"2008-05-24T03:01:15","slug":"protest-some-more-code-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"Protest some more, Code Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Code Pink&#8217;s best efforts to hinder recruiters, all of the services&#8217; recruiters are reporting that they&#8217;ve met or exceeded recruiting goals for February, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/somesoldiersmom.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/oh-yeah-that-worked.html\" target=\"_blank\">Some Soldier&#8217;s Mom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah, well, I&#8217;d rather go somewhere and get shot at than wake up to this every morning, too.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/medea-benjamin-code-pink-protest.jpg\" title=\"medea-benjamin-code-pink-protest.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/medea-benjamin-code-pink-protest.jpg\" alt=\"medea-benjamin-code-pink-protest.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/code_pink_1.jpg\" title=\"code_pink_1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/code_pink_1.jpg\" alt=\"code_pink_1.jpg\" height=\"320\" width=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Or read garbage like this in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkeleydailyplanet.com\/issue\/2008-03-11\/article\/29447\" target=\"_blank\">local newspaper<\/a> (h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/?entry=29258_Make_No_Mistake-_They_Really_Dont_Support_the_Troops&amp;only&amp;headline\" target=\"_blank\">Little Green Footballs<\/a>);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many who oppose the Bush regime wars also say they \u201csupport the troops.\u201d Let me say it straight out\u2014I do not support the troops and neither should you. It is objectively impossible to support the troops of the imperialist military forces of the U.S. and at the same time oppose the wars in which they fight.<\/p>\n<p>The United States has over 700 military bases or sites located in over 130 foreign countries. The hundreds of thousands of troops stationed in these countries are not there to preserve or foster freedom and democracy as the Bush regime would like to claim, but to maintain U.S. imperialist domination of the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What self-respecting American wouldn&#8217;t enlist to offset the garbage that passes for American Political Thought these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite Code Pink&#8217;s best efforts to hinder recruiters, all of the services&#8217; recruiters are reporting that &hellip; <a title=\"Protest some more, Code Pink\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1342\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Protest some more, Code Pink<\/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":[8,43,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-code-pink","category-support-the-troops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","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=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}