{"id":2471,"date":"2008-08-28T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2008-08-28T17:55:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:55:51","slug":"shiftless-hippies-unimpressed-by-ivaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2471","title":{"rendered":"Shiftless hippies unimpressed by IVAW"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Readers may remember back in March the IVAW put out a call to ANSWER, World Can’t Wait, Code Pink, et al. to hold off their protests on the March 15th anniversary of the Iraq War so that the IVAW\/VVAW\/VFP\/SEIU could conduct their Winter Soldier II theater at Silver Spring, MD without competing for the attention of the media. WSII fizzled and got virtually no attention from the media (despite a large presence of media) and a result, the protest against the war which happened five days later, on a Wednesday, drew less than a thousand protesters and, in turn, fizzled out, too. Many of the non-IVAW protest organizations blamed the IVAW for their piss poor performance.<\/p>\n

Well, that bit of history seems to be repeating itself. According to one of the shiftless hippies caught<\/a> in the theater of the IVAW yesterday;<\/p>\n

It was at this point I started to wonder that we\u2019re doing as well in Iraq as we are.\u00a0 If these tactical geniuses are any indication of the military resources we have at our disposal, it\u2019s a wonder every one of them hasn\u2019t been slaughtered.<\/p>\n

Anyway, back at Larimer and Speer, the I.V.A.W. negotiated some more (with someone), declared that the delegates had heard their message (somehow), and disbanded.<\/p>\n

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The problem is that the I.V.A.W. assholes had put a call out to the more militant protesters, claiming that they were gonna end the march by breaking through police lines and doing their damndest to confront the delegates face to face.\u00a0\u00a0 As such, they had a few hundred folks in the march who were ready and willing to put their bodies on the line for the assholes, and ended up wasting the entire day being herded around by police and ordered about by Medea Benjamin types.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess, I’d\u00a0 point out to this shiftless hippie that these are largely the military’s rejects. Their tendancy to lie and their inability to lead is generally a result of living among the American population, not a result of their training.<\/p>\n

I’d also pass along a warning to the Minnesota law enforcement – since Kokesh and Millard are there getting ready for next week’s protests, I’ll be betting they’re going to try and bulid their reputations up a bit. This may be their last chance. Kokesh has been willing to get arrested on countless occasions in the last year and he has yet to pay a price…he keeps testing his boundaries and since this war is winding down, he’s losing his cachet. I’d expect a grand last gasp gesture next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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