{"id":23870,"date":"2011-06-13T17:57:42","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T21:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23870"},"modified":"2011-06-13T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-13T22:00:50","slug":"spotting-phonies-is-easy-if-you-try","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23870","title":{"rendered":"Spotting phonies is easy if you try"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was tooling around the internet today and stumbled on this blog entitled “Left Coast Voices<\/a>” by clicking on a link about how this lone hippie on the West Coast happened to come upon a former soldier in his local coffee haunt. The soldier happened to have a sticker on his laptop that read “Veteran Against Iraq War” so this particular hippie ventured to start a conversation with the soldier.<\/p>\n

Of course, the soldier wanted to make sure that the hippie wasn’t an undercover government agent – you the kinds that are trolling coffee haunts for disgruntled former soldiers – there are millions of them out there, ya know. Because no veterans are allowed to speak out against the government. <\/p>\n

That’s what made me suspicious of this particular tale told by an idiot.<\/p>\n

But what solidified my doubts were these two lines;<\/p>\n

I asked him if all Iraqis that he met felt this way [didn’t want US forces in Iraq] and he replied no. There are many who see teh [sic] US army as teh [sic] only things standing against the Taliban.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, because the Taliban is such a HUGE problem for Iraqis. I’ll bet those Taliban in Iraq are just waiting to get back at regular Iraqis for hanging Saddam Hussein, their leader.<\/p>\n

But, see, it doesn’t matter that this particular soldier made such a HUGE mistake (I mean, anyone who had actually been in Iraq would know there are no Taliban in Iraq, right?), he said things that the jerry Garcia tie wearing toad wanted to hear;<\/p>\n

…the reason the US was so involved in Iraq had to do with oil. He mentioned other countries that are suffering from violence and oppressive regimes to whom we are giving little more than lip service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There, see that gives him legitimacy – the war is for oil, and this soldier said it, so he must be the real deal. The same goes for the organization Iraq Veterans Against the War. It doesn’t matter that they’re not really Iraq War veterans, as long as they reinforce what the anti-war creeps want to believe while they wear remnants of some uniform, whether it was their uniform or not…well, that’s all that matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So I was tooling around the internet today and stumbled on this blog entitled “Left Coast … Spotting phonies is easy if you try<\/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":[8,131,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-i-hate-hippies","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870","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=23870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}