{"id":2734,"date":"2008-09-03T20:12:37","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=2734"},"modified":"2008-09-04T08:19:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T12:19:13","slug":"ivaws-crocodile-tears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2734","title":{"rendered":"IVAW&#8217;s crocodile tears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Thompson, member of the IVAW, (his <a href=\"http:\/\/ivaw.org\/member\/benjamin-r-thompson\" target=\"_blank\">profile at IVAW<\/a> is rather thin) at about 5:02 in the following video makes accusations against US forces in Iraq. Between crocodile tears he claims he was a guard at Abu Garab and that &#8220;we gave them food that made them sick, water that gave them kidney stones. We weren&#8217;t giving them medical attention&#8221;. He claims that when insurgents attacked the prison, many prisoners were killed and none of it was reported in the media.<\/p>\n<p>He also accuses &#8220;my brother and sister MPs&#8221; of atrocities. And, of course, none of it was reported in the media. I&#8217;m waiting for Thompson to file his charges and prove he&#8217;s not just trying to drum up sympathy, the same way he pretended to cry for the Democracy Now! cameras.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube Wjm6Z_uZakQ nolink]<\/p>\n<p>At least IVAW has learned to turn the flag right-side-up these days. We should probably be grateful for that.<\/p>\n<p>As a note, the news reader for this piece is Amy Goodman, the Democracy Now! &#8220;journalist&#8221; who was arrested on Monday for not obeying the police in ST Paul in this video;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube HbOZHcvO7UY nolink]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Thompson, member of the IVAW, (his profile at IVAW is rather thin) at about 5:02 &hellip; <a title=\"IVAW&#8217;s crocodile tears\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=2734\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVAW&#8217;s crocodile tears<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734","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=2734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}