{"id":13429,"date":"2009-08-09T19:12:11","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T00:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13429"},"modified":"2009-08-09T20:20:08","modified_gmt":"2009-08-10T01:20:08","slug":"meet-the-new-ivaw-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13429","title":{"rendered":"Meet the new IVAW Executive Director"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of our resident IVAW refugees just wrote that the new Executive Director of the Iraq Veterans Against the War is Jose Vasquez – another IVAW member who has never deployed to Iraq nor Afghanistan according to his own profile at IVAW;<\/p>\n

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So despite all of the guarantees that we’ve heard in recent months about the change at IVAW, there will be none, apparently. He’s a marginal improvement over the last ED who went AWOL from the Transportation Department to keep from managing fisheries in Hawaii<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet another Veteran Against the War with no duty in IRAQ. In fact, before he was a conscientious objector, he was an Army medic – precisely the kind of job a CO should want if he cared about the troops the way he claims. This is from a Salon article;<\/p>\n

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After 9\/11, he would have served in Afghanistan with few reservations; but by the time his unit got the call for Iraq in 2005, he’d been having doubts not only about the efficacy of the war but about the morality of serving. As a medic, he patched soldiers’ wounds so that they could head out on another mission and kill again. After “a lot of soul-searching,” Vasquez applied for conscientious-objector status, and more than a year later he separated from the Army with an honorable discharge. When he described the day he told the men he led that he was not going to Iraq with them, Vasquez sounded remorseful and sad. He misses the Army and his Joes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, he would have gone to Afghanistan but the Army wouldn’t accommodate him. We’ve heard that one before, haven’t we?<\/p>\n

According to some preliminary research on him, he was the guy in charge of the IVAW Verification team at Winter Soldier II. How could he verify testimony without having spent a day in country himself. He organized First Casualty in New York City two years ago – bringing the Iraq war experience to civilians. How could he do that with any measure of accuracy without his own experience.<\/p>\n

And now he’s going to lead an organization of Iraq veterans, never having been one. Funny, but when I talk to member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, I can reasonably assume that the guy I’m talking to was a veteran of a foreign war.<\/p>\n

Peter Griffin says this about IVAW’s choice;
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