{"id":8936,"date":"2009-03-19T13:31:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T18:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=8936"},"modified":"2009-03-22T08:29:26","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T13:29:26","slug":"the-ivaw-treehouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8936","title":{"rendered":"The IVAW Treehouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I spent the afternoon with the occupants of the IVAW&#8217;s newest digs on Constitution Avenue. They call it &#8220;Tower Watch&#8221;, but it&#8217;s pretty much sitting a few hundred yards from the White House on some lifts in the rain.<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s Kokesh, <a href=\"http:\/\/ivaw.org\/member\/james-circello\">James Circello<\/a> and James Gilligan;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Treehouse 001 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/3367747495\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3470\/3367747495_bc2ffc4d84.jpg\" alt=\"Treehouse 001\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nI think that&#8217;s Tracey Harmon walking towards them. She&#8217;s another one of those Iraq Veterans Against the War who didn&#8217;t serve in either Iraq or Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/traceyharmon.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8957\" title=\"traceyharmon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/traceyharmon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/traceyharmon.jpg 581w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/traceyharmon-300x119.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Treehouse 002 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/3368572584\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3449\/3368572584_8f76e6001b.jpg\" alt=\"Treehouse 002\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8532\">TJ Buonomo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Treehouse 006 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/3367751675\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3547\/3367751675_f8b3460c48.jpg\" alt=\"Treehouse 006\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He just got back from the Labor Conference in Iraq. I tried to have a discussion with him, but he talks so slow that&#8217;s it&#8217;s just irritating. He kept saying &#8220;Let me finish&#8221; but he never does.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ADDED:<\/strong> By the way, TJ, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/US\/07\/07\/iraq.uranium\/\">link to the story about that 500 tons of yellowcake uranium that we shipped from Iraq<\/a> to Canada that you said you&#8217;d never heard about. I figured you&#8217;d never get around to Googling it like I told you to, so I did it for you. Just another service we provide here at This Ain&#8217;t Hell.<\/p>\n<p>James Gilligan is a pretty nice guy, basically, he&#8217;s just a bit skewed politically, but I talked to him for about an hour. Some of you have had discussions with him here &#8211; his screen name is Winter Soldier. It turns out that they&#8217;re all This Ain&#8217;t Hell fans &#8211; they can recite almost every post we&#8217;ve written here about them. Kokesh knew me by sight.<\/p>\n<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/ivaw.org\/member\/amy-r-baxter\">Ami Baxter<\/a>;<br \/>\n<a title=\"Treehouse 005 by jlilyea, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/thisainthell\/3368575280\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3652\/3368575280_acabf67cca.jpg\" alt=\"Treehouse 005\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nShe suffers severely from Bush Derangement Syndrome. Every thing out of her mouth was an anti-war talking point.<\/p>\n<p>But here&#8217;s a video of a discussion I had with Kokesh;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_xffnopdroo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/_xffnopdroo&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>They say they&#8217;re going to be out there until Saturday when the ANSWER march on the Pentagon starts, so if you see &#8217;em give &#8217;em your regards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I spent the afternoon with the occupants of the IVAW&#8217;s newest digs on Constitution Avenue. &hellip; <a title=\"The IVAW Treehouse\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=8936\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The IVAW Treehouse<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-ivaw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936","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=8936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8936\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}