{"id":15445,"date":"2009-11-05T08:25:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T13:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=15445"},"modified":"2009-11-05T08:25:41","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T13:25:41","slug":"veterans-lobbying-congress-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15445","title":{"rendered":"Veterans lobbying Congress today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the dithererer-in-chief contemplates his inaction, veterans groups are stalking Congress in their offices this morning. Vets for Freedom are meeting as I type this to plan out their day in the halls of Congress in conjunction with Michelle Bachman&#8217;s troops. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, VoteVets&#8217; Executive Director focuses on the really important issues, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1109\/29156.html\">Politico<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2007, Veterans for Freedom supported the surge of U.S. forces in Iraq, and VoteVets.org opposed it, advocating a drawdown from Iraq instead. But for now, the organization is still debating its position on the war in Afghanistan, said VoteVets Chairman Jon Soltz, and it is concentrating its efforts on climate change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell. While Obama fiddles over the war in Afghanistan, Jon Soltz prefers to focus his energies on social issues because whenever he shoots his big mouth off over actual military and veterans&#8217; issues, somehow he always turns out to be wrong. It&#8217;s hard to believe that someone who has over three months experience in a combat motor pool could be wrong about military issues, but apparently it happens.<\/p>\n<p>How many things can you find wrong in this paragraph;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The [VFF]&#8217;s founder, David Bellavia, who in 2008 ran unsuccessfully for Congress in New York, attacked Kerry and the late Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2005 for supporting statements that Iraqis wanted the United States to leave their country, claiming in an article on FrontPageMag.com that the comments were \u201ca political attack on the troops, an attack that is aiding our enemy.\u201d The publication is run by Holocaust denier David Horowitz.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bellavia was ONE of the founders of VFF, he didn&#8217;t unsuccessfully run for Congress (the party machine asked his to withdraw in favor of a candidate who could fund his own campaign) and I have no idea where the article&#8217;s author, Jen deMascio, got the idea that David Horowitz is a Holocaust denier &#8211; but I&#8217;ve got an email into her to get her source on that specious charge.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, deMascio, has found a group she likes out of the three she discusses &#8211; the new one that I introduced to you the other day &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rethinkafghanistan.com\/veterans\/\">Veterans for Rethinking Afghanistan<\/a>&#8221; and our new friend Jake Giliberto, who just happened to email me after the last piece I did on his. But DeMascio writes;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cListen, you\u2019ve got to stop falling in love with the military solution; it\u2019s not feasible,\u201d said Jake Diliberto, one of the group\u2019s founders. \u201cThis is a war of poverty and cultural misunderstanding, and it\u2019s an Afghan problem that we don\u2019t have the means or the wisdom to figure out.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So what&#8217;s Jake&#8217;s solution? Just let Afghanistan go back to being a stone age shit hole like we did in 1988. That worked out well for us the first time, didn&#8217;t it? Well, the &#8220;Rethinking Afghanistan&#8221; was started by a filmmaker and we know how much more intelligent filmmakers think they are than the rest of us &#8211; so let&#8217;s ask Hollywood to formulate our foreign and defense policy instead of generals.<\/p>\n<p>I like Jake, he&#8217;s real friendly and fairly bright, but he&#8217;s being used by the peace movement, just like all of those IVAW clowns. The peace movement doesn&#8217;t care about them or their opinions beyond the fact that they can wear T-shirts proclaiming the proper message.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the dithererer-in-chief contemplates his inaction, veterans groups are stalking Congress in their offices this morning. &hellip; <a title=\"Veterans lobbying Congress today\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=15445\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Veterans lobbying Congress today<\/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":[8,46,89,37,84,7,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-barack-obama","category-congress-sucks","category-ivaw","category-military-issues","category-terror-war","category-usual-suspects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445","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=15445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}