{"id":28238,"date":"2012-01-08T10:12:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T14:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=28238"},"modified":"2012-01-08T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T14:12:18","slug":"so-how-do-you-know-jose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=28238","title":{"rendered":"So how do you know, Jose?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, the IVAW is trying to get back in the news. The World Socialist Website <\/a>does an interview with Jose Vasquez, the executive director of the Iraq Veterans Against the War in regards to the final Marine to be tried in regards to the Haditha incident six years ago; <\/p>\n

\u201cObviously this was a tragic event. But given the multiple deployments of a lot of the troops and what they faced in Iraq, it is not surprising that some of these folks snapped.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Really? Jose? And how would you know, since you avoided your own deployment after ten years in the military. And, oh, the Haditha incident happened in 2005…how many times had those Marines been deployed to Iraq in the less than two years of that war? <\/p>\n

He pointed out that \u201cWinter Soldier\u201d hearings held by the IVAW in 2008 had heard testimony of US troops\u2019 involvement in similar atrocities throughout the war and rules of engagement set by the military command that made them inevitable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, TSO and I sat through the Winter Soldiers hearings<\/a> and heard not one word of “similar atrocities throughout the war”. We heard stories about clowns who ALMOST shot people, or buildings being shot up, we saw pictures of living quarters which were in disarray, and backed up toilets but we didn’t hear about any atrocities. Not. One. Word.<\/p>\n

The IVAW leader expressed little confidence in that the military justice system would hold anyone accountable for the crimes at Haditha.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well. you know it could be that there were no crimes at Haditha, that it was all hype from the anti-Bush crowd, hype pumped up by a dead congressman for his own political purposes, and now glommed on to by asswipes who still want to make everything about Bush.<\/p>\n

But, you know, IVAW, you might have a small measure of credibility in the discussion if you had an actual Iraq War veteran speaking for you instead of someone who served in the military for more than 10 years and then chickened out at the moment he was supposed to deploy for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, the IVAW is trying to get back in the news. The World Socialist Website does … So how do you know, Jose?<\/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":[37,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivaw","category-winter-soldier-ii-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238","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=28238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}