{"id":5748,"date":"2008-11-29T19:04:57","date_gmt":"2008-11-30T00:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=5748"},"modified":"2008-11-29T20:22:26","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T01:22:26","slug":"ivaw-causes-first-casualty-in-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5748","title":{"rendered":"IVAW causes First Casualty in SF (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preaching to the choir, the Iraq Veterans Against the War took their worn and tired message to San Francisco for their performance recreation of what they call &#8220;First Casualty&#8221; which refers to the truth being the first casualty of war. They disrupted &#8220;Black Friday&#8221; shopping in Union Square for two hours before their press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s just a way to meet hairy-legged hippie chicks. I mean they can&#8217;t be serious. (You can click these pictures for a larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5749 aligncenter\" title=\"ivaw6\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw6-300x206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5750 aligncenter\" title=\"ivaw7\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw7-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In their press release about the event, they wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our aim is to show the American public the truth of the US occupation in Iraq,  and the effects on returning soldiers&#8221; said Eddie Falcon, IVAW spokesperson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, well, it&#8217;s not on occupation, guys. The democratically elected Iraqi government just invited our troops to stay for three more years. And the only thing your little goof-ball, macho antics are doing for the troops is painting them as merciless thugs and providing ammunition for the ignorant hippies so they can start spitting on them again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5751 aligncenter\" title=\"ivaw4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5752 aligncenter\" title=\"ivaw2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw2-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The news release also complains that the &#8220;corporate news&#8221; isn&#8217;t even talking about Iraq anymore &#8211; that&#8217;s because the war is nearly over, dumbasses. Everyone knows that except you pin heads. But they&#8217;re in a hurry to end the war before it runs it&#8217;s natural course, aren&#8217;t they? The Left must be so disappointed that they can&#8217;t influence public opinion like they did in the 60s.<\/p>\n<p>So here they are convincing the hippies in San Francisco that our troops are thuggish vandals &#8211; a real tough sell, I&#8217;m sure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5753 aligncenter\" title=\"ivaw3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw3-300x171.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5754 aligncenter\" title=\"ivaw1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/ivaw1-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noticed they didn&#8217;t try to disrupt shoppers at Wal-Mart in Nassau County, Long Island &#8211; that might be a little too dangerous for this group of dweebs and dorks. From the looks of the group around the banner above, none of them look like they ever went out on a patrol in Iraq. They don&#8217;t even look manly enough to carry a basic load of equipment. But then, that&#8217;s what they do best &#8211; act the part without being the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m still waiting for them to give real testimony to real atrocities in a real court. Theater only convinces the convinced.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>Our good buddy <a href=\"http:\/\/protestshooter.com\/20081128BlackFriday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Protestshooter<\/a> was on the scene, too, and got more pictures (by way of <a href=\"http:\/\/littlegreenfootballs.com\/weblog\/lgf-linkviewer.php\" target=\"_blank\">LGF&#8217;s linkviewer<\/a>) and plenty of narrative. The pictures I hijacked above were from various left-wing blogs &#8211; as you can see from Protestshooter&#8217;s pictures, there was no shortage of photographers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preaching to the choir, the Iraq Veterans Against the War took their worn and tired message &hellip; <a title=\"IVAW causes First Casualty in SF (Updated)\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=5748\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">IVAW causes First Casualty in SF (Updated)<\/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":[8,37,47,30,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw","category-liberals-suck","category-phony-soldiers","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748","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=5748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}