{"id":20204,"date":"2010-08-20T11:22:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-20T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20204"},"modified":"2010-08-20T18:32:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-20T22:32:19","slug":"how-to-not-support-the-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20204","title":{"rendered":"How to not support the troops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Kaplan, the national student\/youth coordinator for World Can&#8217;t Wait!, has an <a href=\"http:\/\/open.salon.com\/blog\/emmancipator\/2010\/08\/19\/protests_against_fort_hoods_troop_deployment_to_iraq\">article on Salon <\/a>supporting the Under the Hood Cafe\/IVAW protests planned this weekend against the 3rd ACR&#8217;s deployment to the war against terror. In the article, Kaplan writes about the message her own organization is bringing to the protest;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>World Can&#8217;t Wait will be bringing the message, &#8220;What Are They Deploying For? Murder, Rape, Torture, War!&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just so little princess Emma knows, that&#8217;s not how you support the troops that you&#8217;re claiming to support. After all, those things that she complains are happening &#8220;murder, rape, torture&#8230;&#8221; are things that she&#8217;s accusing the troops of committing. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure she knows someone who has deployed to the war&#8230;is she convinced those people who she knows committed those crimes? Does she really think the kid who delivered her family&#8217;s newspaper, or that kid who used to play with her on the playground so many years ago is capable of the atrocities with which she paints the entire military?<\/p>\n<p>If there are some real veterans of these wars left in the IVAW, why would they want to associate with some spoiled college girl princess who thinks this about them?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emma Kaplan, the national student\/youth coordinator for World Can&#8217;t Wait!, has an article on Salon supporting &hellip; <a title=\"How to not support the troops\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20204\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to not support the troops<\/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":[8,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204","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=20204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20204\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}