{"id":8532,"date":"2009-03-09T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-03-09T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8532"},"modified":"2009-03-09T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-03-09T17:58:14","slug":"safe-enough-for-ya-now-tj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8532","title":{"rendered":"Safe enough for ya now, TJ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We got an IVAW press release today announcing their intention to send two representatives to an Iraqi Labor Conference. It’s um, pretty funny;<\/p>\n

Since the U.S. occupation began, Iraqi workers have been targeted in an attempt to suppress the population and control Iraq’s natural resources. Labor leaders have been killed, tortured and imprisoned; worker’s rights have been routinely violated; and union bank accounts have been frozen. In turn, Iraqi labor unions and workers have been among the leading non-sectarian forces defending Iraqi sovereignty and democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Notice how they fail to mention who is doing the killing of these labor leaders. The implication, of course, is that either US troops or the Iraqi government is doing it. I’m not going to speculate about who they think is responsible – but it sounds like they lifted the whole line from a presser from the US labor unions about Colombia. You’d think they’d point fingers at who they they think is the culprit.<\/p>\n

IVAW members Aaron Hughes and TJ Buonomo will represent IVAW as the only non-labor union participants at this historic conference. We have accepted this special invitation as an opportunity to powerfully show our support for the Iraqi people’s struggle for a democratic and sovereign Iraq, free of foreign domination. IVAW believes this can only be accomplished by ending the occupation and removing all foreign troops and bases, said Aaron Hughes, Iraq veteran and former Sergeant with the Illinois National Guard. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, good, two clowns who’ve never held a job are going to a labor conference. Here’s Thomas J Buonomo’s profile at IVAW;
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\nBuonomo’s story goes like this: He went to the Air Force Academy, got commissioned in the Army, went to intel school in Arizona and then got cold feet about being being deployed away from the lifestyle he’d grown accustomed to in the Air Force Academy. <\/p>\n

In his profile he explains;<\/p>\n

After examining statements made by numerous journalists and public officials with firsthand information on these matters, I came to the conclusion that the Iraq war was not only irresponsible but illegal and immoral….<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brilliant, huh? He read “numerous journalists” whom we all know are infallible experts on every subject in the world. And this snot-nosed green El-Tee swallowed their BS and used it as an excuse to avoid the service that he OWED the country because of the free education he received.<\/p>\n

But I guess it’s safe enough now for TJ to venture over to Iraq – last time they sent Hughes and Millard. I guess Buonomo figures that they made it back in one piece he can stick his cowardly nose in where it doesn’t belong. <\/p>\n

The trip is being funded by USLAW (US Labor Against the War<\/a>) an affiliate of United For Peace and Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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