{"id":29989,"date":"2012-05-16T19:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29989"},"modified":"2012-05-16T19:55:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T23:55:06","slug":"aaron-hughes-to-toss-his-medal-at-nato-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29989","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Hughes to toss his medal at NATO in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29929\">We talked about Aaron Hughes the other day<\/a>. He was a truck driver stationed in Kuwait and drove supplies into Iraq in the early months of the war and now he&#8217;s the head spokesperson for IVAW in Chicago based on his unique view of the war in Afghanistan. <\/p>\n<p>Tom sends us this video from Democracy Now! in which Aaron is interviewed by Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh because he&#8217;s threatening to throw his GWOT Medal and his Army Commendation Medal at NATO this weekend in Chicago. If you&#8217;re having trouble sleeping tonight, this is the video you need. It&#8217;ll put you right out.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/embed\/story\/2012\/5\/16\/what_have_we_been_doing_decorated\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He starts out spewing out the little speech with all of the same talking points of his previous video and he doesn&#8217;t stray from those talking points through the whole interview. When ever the interviewers ask him to stray from his points, he says he doesn&#8217;t know. <\/p>\n<p>He complains that as a truck driver he was only trained to kill, not to build democracies;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There\u2019s a real moral disconnect between the idea that our military can build a democracy and the idea that our military is trained and designed to control, dominate and kill people. &#8230; Occupations don\u2019t build democracies, don\u2019t extend individuals\u2019 freedoms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, Aaron, I know you weren&#8217;t in Afghanistan, so you wouldn&#8217;t be able to ask those Afghan school girls if the Americans haven&#8217;t helped them any, what with girls just recently being allowed to go to school, in the school houses that we built. But I&#8217;m sure if look far and wide through the ranks of IVAW, you might find someone who has been there and can explain it to you. <\/p>\n<p>Aaron also explains that the only people who are qualified to bring democracy to Afghanistan have studied the problem for years. Yet here is Aaron, with his degree in Art Theory telling us how to run our foreign and defense policies. I guess in Art Theory they don&#8217;t teach the word &#8220;irony&#8221; to their students. <\/p>\n<p>PS: Aaron loves birds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about Aaron Hughes the other day. He was a truck driver stationed in Kuwait &hellip; <a title=\"Aaron Hughes to toss his medal at NATO in Chicago\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29989\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aaron Hughes to toss his medal at NATO in Chicago<\/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":[37,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ivaw","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29989","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=29989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}