{"id":17998,"date":"2010-03-15T12:15:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=17998"},"modified":"2010-03-15T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:15:15","slug":"votevets-today-and-yesterday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=17998","title":{"rendered":"VoteVets today and yesterday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a video posted in February 2007, in which Jon Soltz (the Michael Scott<\/a> of veteran affairs) tells the press that there’s a “100% chance that the escalation [the Surge] won’t work”.<\/p>\n

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This weekend, VetsVoice<\/a>‘s Eyes Only brags about the conditions in Iraq;<\/p>\n

And, perhaps the greatest thing to happen on Election Day in Iraq was that NO US Forces were hurt, or needed, or called out for anything. The Iraqis were able to do what they needed to do. And now, it is our turn to do what we need to do, which is prepare to close this out, return with honor, and continue on. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And yet VoteVets thinks they’re a relevant voice in the public discourse over the war against terrorists. It seems to me that the surge was a 95% success and not the 100% failure that Soltz predicted…and that’s if I only use Eyes Only, Soltz’ own blogger, as my source.<\/p>\n

That’s probably why they’ve limited themselves to completely idiot issues like Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and the Cap and Trade bill. Soltz’ three months in Kuwait didn’t equip him for military prognostication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a video posted in February 2007, in which Jon Soltz (the Michael Scott of veteran … VoteVets today and yesterday<\/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":[478],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-none"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998","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=17998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}