{"id":2325,"date":"2008-08-21T08:57:06","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T12:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2008-08-21T17:09:45","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T21:09:45","slug":"ivaw-scrapes-bottom-of-barrel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2325","title":{"rendered":"IVAW scrapes bottom of barrel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve been writing the last few months, the Iraq Veterans Against the War have been trying to get the word out about the perceived atrocities they&#8217;ve witnessed in Iraq. The media has largely ignored them so they&#8217;ve been on the road this summer hoping someone will notice them. No one has noticed them thus far&#8230;until now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ltnixonrants.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/ivaw-to-bare-all-in-hustler.html\" target=\"_blank\">LT Nixon<\/a> emails me this morning that they&#8217;ve caught the attention of that paragon of virtue and truth Hustler Magazine (beware of any links at El-Tee&#8217;s place &#8211; he doesn&#8217;t have a wife that bonks him on the head when nekkid women pop up on the screen).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/slog.thestranger.com\/2008\/08\/press_release_of_the_day_3\" target=\"_blank\">Slog<\/a>&#8216;s Bethany Jean Clement has the press release;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>HUSTLER Magazine November 2008<\/p>\n<p>The Winter Soldiers Speak Out<\/p>\n<p>In arguably the most shocking piece of the year, HUSTLER Magazine reports on the truth about what\u2019s going on in Iraq. The \u201cWinter Soldier\u201d veterans, as they are called, speak out about the war and the thousands of innocent Iraqi civilian casualties. One of the brave soldiers brought back a video of his sergeant declaring, \u201cThe difference between an insurgent and an Iraqi civilian is whether they are dead or alive.\u201d The soldier explains: \u201cIf you kill a civilian, he becomes an insurgent because you retroactively make him a threat.\u201d Gruesome photos accompany the article.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, see this goes to my post the other day. One &#8220;brave&#8221; soldier brings back a video of his SERGEANT declaring&#8230;. Did he bring back a video of his commander saying this? Or an even higher commander? Nope&#8230;IVAW is in the business of smearing the soldiers and Marines. And then they slap each other on the back and call themselves &#8220;brave&#8221;&#8230;and then wonder why they don&#8217;t get any respect from other veterans. &#8220;Gruesome photos accompany the article&#8221; just has too many possibilities coming from Hustler.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll let the commenters go into depth on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Ya know, I wonder if IVAW or Huster realize that no one who buys that particular magazine can read. Not that there&#8217;s anything wrong with that &#8211; Hustler&#8217;s first publication coincided with my first month in basic training, so we&#8217;ve grown old together. But, I think if I wanted to get an anti-war message out, Hustler would probably be the last place I&#8217;d go.<\/p>\n<p>LT Nixon, in his email to me, ruminated about a photo layout of nekkid, hairy-legged hippie chicks. I&#8217;m sure he gets to see enough of those in the Great Northwest, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve been writing the last few months, the Iraq Veterans Against the War have been &hellip; <a title=\"IVAW scrapes bottom of barrel\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2325\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVAW scrapes bottom of barrel<\/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":[8,37,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-phony-soldiers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","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=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}