{"id":17522,"date":"2010-02-18T09:26:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T14:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17522"},"modified":"2010-02-18T10:05:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-18T15:05:46","slug":"what-the-hell-do-you-know-about-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17522","title":{"rendered":"What the Hell do you know about Afghanistan?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I caught wind of a little presentation that the Chicago chapter of IVAW was giving in the Windy City next month entitled “What the hell do you know about Afghanistan?<\/a>“. Apparently, it’s designed to inform us woefully ignorant Americans about Afghanistan. But here’s their press release about the event;<\/p>\n

Iraq Veterans Against the War present a series of shorts, improvised skits, talks, stories, and performances that dive into how little and how much we know about Afghanistan. Hear from the first hand experience of veterans that have walked the streets and driven the roads of a country that too many of us know too little about. And tell us what the \u201chell\u201d you know about a country we have now occupied
\nfor over nine years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I went over to the Chicago Chapter’s roster just to see who the Hell is going to tell me what the Hell they know about Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Chicago | Chapter 12<\/p>\n

President – Pete Sullivan
\nTreasurer – Mike Applegate
\nSecretary – Jim Redden<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So what is their background? According to their profiles, none of them have been Afghanistan – or Iraq for that matter;
\n
\n\"peter-sullivan-profile\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"applegate-profile\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"redden-profile\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, I checked the profiles of the other members of the Chicago Sect and couldn’t find any who had been in Afghanistan. Two had been to Iraq, one had been to Guantanamo.<\/p>\n

So I wonder what the Hell they know about Afghanistan that I don’t already know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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