{"id":1675,"date":"2008-05-16T15:53:55","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T19:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=1675"},"modified":"2008-05-18T17:28:54","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T21:28:54","slug":"46q-refuses-deployment-to-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=1675","title":{"rendered":"46Q refuses deployment to Iraq (UPDATED 2X)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Actually, I read this yesterday at the IVAW OneStop about Matthis Chiroux who refused to go to Iraq, but I’d had enough of IVAW for one day. But now it won’t seem to disappear. Zero Ponsdorf<\/a> sent me this Breitbart link<\/a>;<\/span><\/p>\n

“I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare to the military, my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq,” Chiroux said in the sun-filled rotunda of a congressional building in Washington.<\/p>\n

“My decision is based on my desire to no longer continue violating my core values to support an illegal and unconstitutional occupation… I refuse to participate in the Iraq occupation,” he said, as a dozen veterans of the five-year-old Iraq war looked on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

His military background is at Jammie Wearing Fool;<\/a><\/p>\n

Some details<\/a> AFP omits.<\/p>\n

Matthis enlisted in the Army days after graduating from high school. During his five-year enlistment, Matthis served as a journalist<\/strong> in the Army, with tours in Germany, Japan, Afghanistan and the Philippines.<\/p>\n

While serving in Afghanistan and Palawan, Philippines, Matthis experienced hostile environments fighting against Islamic insurgents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Can you believe it? Actually entering hostile environments while playing a journalist?<\/p>\n

Hmm, no agenda here, I’m sure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, what no one else knows is that it was all staged. As soon as yesterday’s hearing ended, Maxine Waters arranged a press conference so young Matthis could announce he’d been converted by the testimony – as I described yesterday, the testimony couldn’t convince me of anything, it couldn’t convince anyone of anything. So they manufactured a miraculous conversion.<\/p>\n

How do I know? His sister posted on an IVAW website yesterday that Matthis had been duped and used by the IVAW, and now her post is gone. If I hadn’t been so tired of IVAW BS last night, I would have screen capped it…but d’oh.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Thanks to Marooned in Marin<\/a> who found another of her comments;<\/p>\n

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Here’s Chiroux’<\/span> video. That’s Kelly Doughtery on his right and Army Sergeant over his left shoulder, \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\tSergio Kochergin behind him and Kristopher Goldsmith on his left.<\/p>\n

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Big surprise, he signed on for an eight year commitment, finished four years active duty and got called back in. being a 46Q journalist isn’t going to require him to do any of the heavylifting – no fighting, no patrolling. The reason I know the MOS for journalist is because it was my secondary. I spent some time as a private working as an Army journalist in Panama during the treaty negotiations in 1977.<\/p>\n

There’s always a backstory to these conscientious objectors. Always.<\/p>\n

Are these hearings affecting effecting the public’s perception of troops? LT Nixon<\/a> thinks so;<\/p>\n

Finally, Matthew Yglesias discusses an escalation of force<\/a> incident that got resulted in Iraqi civilians killed, and an angry commenter<\/a> quips:<\/p>\n

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And people wonder why I sincerely desire that Bush, Cheney, Rice, Powell, Lieberman, both Clintons, and roughly 200,000 others, be tried as war criminals<\/strong> and, upon conviction, be hanged by the neck until DEAD DEAD DEAD? As far as I’m concerned, anyone who DOESN’T want that is a baby killing monster.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ugh. I’ve heard of BushHalliburtonCheneyCo being tried for war crimes, but us military types going to the gallows is news to me. While I sympathize with the angst of the IVAW members, and in some cases their hearts may be in the right place, I strongly urge them to examine their tactics and how they are perceived by the civilian public.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

All of this mud slinging being done on the Republican Administration is splashing on the troops. Can spitting on the troops in airports be too far away?<\/p>\n

UPDATED AGAIN:<\/strong> From A Soldier’s Perspective<\/a>;<\/p>\n

The media is making it sound like Chiroux is about to deploy and that he is making this big stand as an active duty Soldier in refusing to deploy. The fact is that he is a civilian who received a recall letter back in February which he has ignored. The military has already said that they are not hunting down individuals who ignore those letters, though they’d have a legal right to prosecute if they wanted to. So, where’s the news again? Here’s the part of Chiroux’s speech no one seems to be reporting:<\/p>\n

“As an army journalist whose job it was to college and filter service members\u2019 stories, I heard many a stomach-churning testimony of the horrors and crimes taking place in Iraq. For fear of retaliation from the military, I failed to report these crimes. Never again will I allow fear to silence me. Never again will I fail to stand. In February, I received a letter from the Army, ordering my return to active duty, with the purpose of mobilization in Operation Iraqi Freedom.”<\/p>\n

Thanks in great part to the truths of war being fearlessly spoken by my fellow IVAW members, I stand before you today with the strength and clarity and resolve to declare the military and my government and the world that this soldier will not be deploying to Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to the UCMJ, Chiroux is guilty of every crime he failed to report. The testimonies of his fellow yellow-bellies is a direct result of his cowardice in reporting crimes. I find it ironic that he has the “strength and clarity and resolve” to refuse deployment and doesn’t fear “retaliation from the military” in this endeavor, but when it came to potentially saving lives, he chose to remain quiet. Basically, what Chiroux is saying is that he’s a selfish bastard whose own life is more important than anyone else’s!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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