{"id":7510,"date":"2009-02-02T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2011-08-15T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T04:55:08","slug":"sporkmaster-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7510","title":{"rendered":"Sporkmaster in the sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of our newest members of this tiny community, Sporkmaster, is currently deployed to Iraq. Sporkmaster says this is his first unit and his first deployment. He writes that he has a private blog, but that he wanted to share with readers of TAH the private Hell he creates for the poor Iraqi citizens and the unending terror that soldiers in Iraq are dealing with everyday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7511\" title=\"kids-in-town\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town-a-second-before.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7512\" title=\"kids-in-town-a-second-before\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town-a-second-before.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town-a-second-before.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/kids-in-town-a-second-before-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Iraqi police sullen and angry at the occupation we&#8217;ve inflicted on them, hate Americans, too;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/iraiq-police-at-a-checkpoint.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/iraiq-police-at-a-checkpoint.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"iraiq-police-at-a-checkpoint\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/iraiq-police-at-a-checkpoint.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/iraiq-police-at-a-checkpoint-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/omar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/omar.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"omar\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/omar.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/omar-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These are the faces of the evil perpetrators of the dastardly occupation;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/photo-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/photo-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"photo-2\" width=\"500\" height=\"374\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/photo-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/photo-2-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Hmm. They sorta look like the guys who lived next door, or the guys i saw graduating from high school last Spring. They don&#8217;t look like sadistic killers and rapists, do they? I wonder what IVAW is talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Sporkmaster has sent me a slew of other photos that I&#8217;ll add over the next few days when I get time. I want to thank him for not only sharing these photos with us, but also for the job he&#8217;s doing over there, which probably doesn&#8217;t seem too glamorous at the moment, except to those of us who really appreciate the sacrifices he and his comrades are making for us and for the Iraqis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our newest members of this tiny community, Sporkmaster, is currently deployed to Iraq. Sporkmaster &hellip; <a title=\"Sporkmaster in the sand\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=7510\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sporkmaster in the sand<\/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":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","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=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}