{"id":14177,"date":"2009-09-07T17:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T22:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=14177"},"modified":"2009-09-08T06:49:37","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T11:49:37","slug":"ivaws-josh-simpson-cant-keep-his-story-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=14177","title":{"rendered":"IVAW’s Josh Simpson can’t keep his story straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just cruising through my feeds this afternoon, I came across this YouTube video from Venezuelan Television. It’s an interview with IVAW’s Josh Simpson who tells harrowing stories of interrogations while he was a US Army interrogator. <\/p>\n

Keep in mind that this the first of a series of four interviews by VZTV, the government-owned Telesur, attempting to warn Venezuelans that Americans and Colombians are intent on invading Venezuela – I guess because we don’t have enough poor people, so we have to enslave some more. Ed. Note: Although the program portion of this interview is in Spanish, Josh’s answers are in English<\/strong>;<\/p>\n

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So I did a little research on Joshua and found that he’d claimed to be an interrogator a few times in the media – like this interview from Dahr Jamail last year;
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Here’s another on an Arab language website in which he he claims he was on a Tactical Human Intelligence Team;<\/p>\n

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But then I started running into quotes like this one from Simpson that made me think maybe he wasn’t a interrogator;<\/p>\n

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Notice that Dahr Jamail did two interviews with Simpson, and Simpson “fooled” Jamail into thinking he held two different jobs during his year in Iraq. Jamail couldn’t be bothered to verify Simson’s competing stories as long as the stories fit Jamail’s story line. <\/p>\n

So I went over to IVAW’s website and looked up his profile;<\/p>\n

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Lo and behold, Simpson was an infantryman, not an interrogator. But that hasn’t stopped him from going on Venezuelan TV and Arabic newspapers to tell them his stories.<\/p>\n

So I guess IVAW isn’t above distorting their message for the hire of thugs and dictators like Hugo Chavez.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just cruising through my feeds this afternoon, I came across this YouTube video from Venezuelan Television. … IVAW’s Josh Simpson can’t keep his story straight<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177","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=14177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}