{"id":1568,"date":"2008-04-25T14:12:27","date_gmt":"2008-04-25T18:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1568"},"modified":"2008-04-25T19:16:47","modified_gmt":"2008-04-25T23:16:47","slug":"fill-in-blank-against-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1568","title":{"rendered":"[Fill in the blank] Against the War"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had an email exchange with Thus Spake Ortner this morning (that’s right, IVAW, not everything I say about ya’all is public) that got me to thinking. He sent me a link of an IVAW member named PJSChicago<\/a> who wrote about how the evil Army made him into a killer without him realizing it. He ends his wildly idiotic rant with;<\/p>\n

When I think back on what the Army made me capable of, I feel angry because I\u2019m only figuring it out now. Duped again! 12 years of learning to hate and learning to want to kill people because it was kill or be killed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He joined the infantry and was assigned to an artillery unit, what did he think the Army wanted him for? Some worldwide meals-on-wheels program? But that’s not my point, actually. TSO wrote another piece on another IVAW goofball, Thomas J. Buonomo<\/a>, a homey, actually, from Rochester, New York who spent four years in the Air Force Academy and then got tossed out of the Army for being an advocate for the impeachment of Dick Cheney.<\/p>\n

So what does PJSChicago and Inmate Buonomo have in common? The same thing alot of IVAW members seem to have in common – they’ve never been to Iraq but they’re in an organization called IRAQ VETERANS Against the War. Am I the only one who thinks this is disingenuous?<\/p>\n

Back a few years ago, I went to photograph the Code Pink Mother’s Day protest at the White House. There were about 8 ladies holding a twenty-foot long banner that read “Mothers Against the War”. After taking their pictures, I asked them how many were really mothers – they all pointed at one woman. I asked her if she had a son or daughter in the military. She replied her son was in the Army. I asked her if he was in Iraq or Afghanistan and she said ‘no’…then she confessed that her son had gotten out of the military ten years earlier.<\/p>\n

Out of eight women with a “Mothers Against the War” banner, only one actually qualified as a mother – and her son wasn’t in the military and not in danger of being sent to Iraq. So what was the point?<\/p>\n

What’s the motivation of joining an organization that claims to be something that it’s really not? And why should we believe anything else they tell us if their name is even a lie? Are you guys scoring hot, hairy-legged hippy chics and they didn’t seem taken with your first choice of names – Doofuses Against the War?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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