{"id":13839,"date":"2009-08-20T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T23:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=13839"},"modified":"2009-08-20T18:53:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T23:53:13","slug":"ivaw-gives-advice-to-state-dept-then-promptly-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=13839","title":{"rendered":"IVAW gives advice to State Dept. then promptly ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, according to junior space cadet, and newly-elected board member TJ Buonomo<\/a>, he tried to give advice to the State Department earlier this month. Keep in mind that Buonomo spent a few months in the Army as a second louie (after soaking the US tax payers for an Air Force Academy education), so he introduces himself to a State Department “official” as a “former US Army Intelligence Officer”. <\/p>\n

Buonomo, in his own words, “I was discharged from the Army for vocally supporting the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney and for denouncing American imperialism as a betrayal of our revolutionary principles”. But he sure throws around that “US Army Intelligence Officer” around like he’s proud of it. And he writes like he’s in high school.<\/p>\n

So anyway, after he cleared up his status to the State Department “official” he pretty much got a “no comment” answer. “Numerous attempts to contact the State Department’s Office of International Labor and Corporate Social Responsibility by phone and email have not been responded to.”<\/p>\n

Probably because the State Department doesn’t answer letters from pseudo-experts who end their sentences with prepositions. It makes them sound like cranks. <\/p>\n

But Buonomo’s whole schtick is that he went to an Iraqi labor conference<\/a>, well, once the shooting stopped. So he thinks that short stay makes him an expert on labor relations in Iraq – such an expert that he presumes he can advise the State Department. <\/p>\n

Of course, to someone who spent 14 months in uniform and calls himself a “former US Army Intelligence Officer” I’m sure a week or so in Iraq seems like time enough to know every thing. <\/p>\n

So let’s hear one more time how significant it was that Obama’s veteran adviser met with IVAW at the Democrat National Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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