{"id":27463,"date":"2011-11-13T19:56:01","date_gmt":"2011-11-13T23:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=27463"},"modified":"2011-11-13T20:39:29","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T00:39:29","slug":"at-the-intersection-of-crazy-and-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=27463","title":{"rendered":"At the intersection of Crazy and Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jose Vasquez<\/a>, the executive director of Iraq Veterans Against the War (what war?) sits down with Cornell Ag School grad, Keith Olbermann, to discuss how IVAW finds itself intermingled with smelly hippies of the Occupy Wall Street movement (it’s a movement in the “bowel” sense of the word). <\/p>\n

I just think it’s hilarious that I get to hear Vasquez talk about “taking an oath to serve the country”. Vasquez decided to become a conscientious objector to the war in Iraq after ten years of service as a medic in the final moments before his unit deployed to Iraq. Vasquez said publicly that if his unit had deployed to Afghanistan instead, he would have deployed to the “just” war, too. Under his leadership, while the Iraq War was winding down, IVAW voted to oppose the war in Afghanistan, so his sense of “taking an oath to serve the country” are somewhat narrowly defined.<\/p>\n

Of course, he has to mention that crank General Smedley Butler…using him as figurehead doesn’t help IVAW. Olbemann and Vasquez agree that veterans give the Occupy movement a measure of credibility. In that, they’re sadly mistaken. As the occupy movement collapses, it proves that no amount of credibility veterans give them will improve their image in the public’s eyes. In fact, I figure veterans’ participation in the display of public masturbation called the Occupy movement with have some splash back on veterans as a whole.<\/p>\n

I call it public masturbation because it does nothing productive, only gives the occupiers a measure of satisfaction and embarrasses anyone else who happens to see it. Kind of like the mutual stroking Vasquez and Olbermann are involved in during this video.<\/p>\n

Thanks to one of my ninjas for the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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