{"id":27317,"date":"2011-11-03T11:33:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T15:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27317"},"modified":"2011-11-03T13:09:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T17:09:52","slug":"boston-globe-thousands-of-veterans-support-ows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27317","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe: &#8220;Thousands&#8221; of veterans support OWS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, i don&#8217;t know how they arrive at that &#8220;thousands&#8221; number, but I&#8217;d counter that millions of veterans are NOT marching in the flaccid movement. And if you look at the veterans who are supporting the OWS theater, they&#8217;re the pepetually outraged mannequins of the Left &#8211; IVAW. Scott olsen who was injured last week in Oakland belonged to both VFP and IVAW. Matthis Chiroux who wrote in the Huffington Post yesterday about the OWS &#8220;leadership&#8221; or the lack thereof, was a creation of IVAW. In this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2011\/11\/03\/us_military_veterans_heed_occupy_rallying_cry_1320302968\/\">Boston Globe article<\/a> one of the veterans in the article, Jerry Bordeleau, is one of the remaining actual veterans of the war in Iraq, or so he says;<\/p>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4aR-ECjtpk8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the video, he says he wore his complete uniform to the protest&#8230;.if he still fits in his uniform, I know why he&#8217;s not in service anymore. He must&#8217;ve cleaned the PMO out of donuts every morning.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;For 10 years, we have been fighting wars that have enriched the wealthiest 1 percent, decimated our economy and left our nation with a generation of traumatized and wounded veterans that will require care for years to come,&#8221; said Carter, who leads the national Iraq Veterans Against the War group.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, where is Jose Vasquez, the Executive Director of IVAW? He lives in New York City&#8230;why isn&#8221;t he leading the contingent. Maybe it&#8217;s because he never deployed to Iraq and he has no authority to speak for Iraq veterans, even though he heads an organization which has Iraq Veterans right there in the title.<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;ll notice that the Left puts veterans right in the front of their movements in their uniforms and IVAW T-shirts, organizations like IVAW are merely mannequins for the fruit pie Left. The hippies think that hiding behind their uniforms give them some sort of credibility. But IVAW lost any credibility they might have had when their executive director was an AWOL Coastie stationed in Hawaii who couldn&#8217;t bring himself to patrol fisheries for The Man. <\/p>\n<p>For a while IVAW started working for the health of returning veterans and I pretty much left them alone, but they&#8217;ve begun slipping back into their old habits. I guess, I&#8217;m going to have to order a whole new batch of FOIAs.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to The Mr Wolf for the heads up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, i don&#8217;t know how they arrive at that &#8220;thousands&#8221; number, but I&#8217;d counter that millions &hellip; <a title=\"Boston Globe: &#8220;Thousands&#8221; of veterans support OWS\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27317\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boston Globe: &#8220;Thousands&#8221; of veterans support OWS<\/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-27317","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\/27317","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=27317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}