{"id":20847,"date":"2010-10-14T13:48:18","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=20847"},"modified":"2010-10-14T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T17:48:18","slug":"anti-war-com-are-veterans-our-only-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=20847","title":{"rendered":"Anti-War.com; are veterans our only hope?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some bubble-headed, antiquated hippie named Kelley B. Vlaho wrote at a website called “Anti-War.com<\/a>” that veterans are our only hope – no not for saving the world from peawitted hippies, but from the “establishment”…yes, they still use that word for everything from the guy at MacDonald’s who screwed up their order to the military. <\/p>\n

Of course, the main character in her little story is Ethan McCord, of “Collateral Murder” fame. The guy who claims that his battalion used “rotational recon by fire<\/a>” or some shit – you know, looking for the enemy by firing in all directions all of the time. Out of the nearly one thousand people in his infantry battalion McCord is the only one brave enough to come forward. Makes sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a whole lot of us,\u201d said McCord, who when he left the military, eventually connected with other vets at IVAW, or as he puts it, \u201ca group of comrades who felt the same way I did, who thought the war was wrong, immoral and illegal.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the mainstream media wants nothing to do with us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that’s it, McCord. The media wants nothing to do with you because they’ve been burned by the Jesse MacBeths, the Rick Duncan<\/a>s, the Michael McManuses<\/a>, the Michael Hamilton<\/a>s, the Kevin Grimsinger<\/a>s. The Geoff Millard<\/a>s.<\/p>\n

The only ones left who’ll listen to you are the hippies. And then they’ll only use you as long as you’re useful – as long as you wear your “_____ Against the War” T-shirt and throw your fists in the air for the cameras. Look how far Cindy “absolute moral authority” Sheehan has fallen when she outlived her usefulness. <\/p>\n

Hippies have such low self esteem, they’ll let some doofus like Michael Prysner<\/a> lead them. I’ll bet none of your buddies back in the infantry wouldn’t be seen in public with Prysner, his politics aside. <\/p>\n

And you’ll all end up being Bill Perry<\/a>s and Ward Reilly<\/a>s.<\/p>\n

Most of America joins me in hating hippies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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