Pick a story, Millard
I’m sure my regular readers will remember Geof Millard who I spent some bandwidth on last year. It seems he’s playing the part of my whack-a-mole again. Thanks to reader Mary who dropped off a link to a Salon.com story which warns that “Neo-Nazis Are in the Army Now“. It’s a fairly poorly researched article that ignores the facts to project fantastic stories – much like Jon Soltz and the rest of the Left does these days.
But, of course, when they’re having a tough time finding someone to tattle on the military, the Leftists at Salon go to IVAW, and Geof Millard is IVAW’s self proclaimed expert on racism in the military. He’s been telling a story since before Winter Soldier, as quoted by Aaron Glatz;
That evening, Millard said he was in a briefing where the chain of command was informed of the shooting.
“After the officer in charge briefed it to the general in a very calm manner, a commander turned in his chair to the entire division-level staff, and he said—and I quote—‘If these f——g hajis learned to drive, this s–t wouldn’t happen.’”
Millard said he looked around the room at the other officers and the other enlisted men, mostly higher ranking than himself. “I didn’t see one dissenting body language, one disagreeing head nod,” he said. “Everyone was in agreement that it’s true, if these f—–g hajis learned to drive, this s–t wouldn’t happen. I couldn’t believe it, but it was true. That stayed with me the rest of my tour.”
Well, just for Salon, Millard changed the story a bit;
Geoffrey Millard, an organizer for Iraq Veterans Against the War, served in Iraq for 13 months, beginning in 2004, as part of the 42nd Infantry Division. He recalls Gen. George Casey, who served as the commander in Iraq from 2004 to 2007, addressing a briefing he attended in the summer of 2005 at Forward Operating Base, outside Tikrit. “As he walked past, he was talking about some incident that had just happened, and he was talking about how ‘these stupid fucking hajjis couldn’t figure shit out.’ And I’m just like, Are you kidding me? This is Gen. Casey, the highest-ranking guy in Iraq, referring to the Iraqi people as ‘fucking hajjis.'” (A spokesperson for Casey, now the Army Chief of Staff, said the general “did not make this statement.”)
“The military is attractive to white supremacists,” Millard says, “because the war itself is racist.”
Now, it’s General Casey, and he just passed by Millard and made the statement. Funny how much better it sounds now that phony soldier Millard has had 18 months to work on his narrative, ain’t it? I know it didn’t happen because the General Casey version would have made it to the Winter Soldier testimony – and it didn’t.
First of all, there’s nothing offensive about the word “hadji”. Proof? OK, here’s a picture I took in Bethesda, MD last year. Bethesda is the most politically-correct town in the country – would they tolerate this on Wisconsin Avenue (the main street that leads to Georgetown in DC)?
Secondly, Millard; pick a story and stick to it – this is too easy. can’t you give me a challenge? Millard began by lying about his backpain in the Army and when he couldn’t get a medical retirement, he went AWOL and got busted for it – then he promoted himself to sergeant again and gave himself a stack of medals all after he got out and forged his DD214 to reflect the cool stuff. He also broke the first rule of This Ain’t Hell – he awarded himself a CIB that he didn’t earn. So why is Salon bothering to interview him? Because he brings them the message they want to hear.
We’ll have more on the Salon article later, I promise. It’s a pretty long piece, and I’ve got some links to find.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Media, Phony soldiers, Usual Suspects
The term Hadji traditionally meant one who had completed a trip to Mecca known as the Hadj. Thus it was to some degree a mark of honor, since good Muslims are supposed to make the trip at least once in their lifetime.
The military has taken the term in a differnt direction by using it to mean any person of Arab decent. In this way, it could be inferred to be a racial slur not unlike Gook, Jap of Kraut were used in previous wars.
Naw,HM2(FMF/SW)Ret. y’got it wrong, we use it as a generic catch all, not a slur.
Hadji=Charlie,Ivan or Fritz, a generic nickname to denote their nationality.
Racists refer to them as sand ni–ers, which is in the same league as gook, slope or dink.
Generic catch alls are not actually good. Just a note.
Jonn, I don’t think it’s fair of you to say that Geoff lied about his back pain. Where are you getting that from? I can say that I’ve known Geoff for two years now, and in that time, I’ve seen him suffer from back pain quite a lot, even times when no one but myself was around. I promise he has no need to lie to me!
Jonn wrote: It’s easy; for twenty years, I watched the Army medically retire people with real injuries on the advice of Army doctors. Why would they suddenly want to keep on duty people with medical problems? Did the Army decide that having cripples on active duty is a good idea? Millard claimed that an Iraqi doctor told him he should be sent back from Iraq, but Army doctors disagreed – WTF, over? I know you like to bash Army health care, but I’d trust their judgment before I’d trust a civilian of any nationality.
There’s nothing like coming to TAH to bitch about some BS article in Salon that says neo-nazis are runnining the army, only to realize that you guys are already on the ball. Saves me a whole lotta time. I’m waiting anxiously for your full report on this article.
From my time in Kuwait, we used Haji to denote anything TCN related. We had quite a few TCN that worked at the port with us, including quite a few Sikhs who wore turbans just like Haji did on the old Johnny Quest cartoons. The bootleg copies of movies you could buy were called – Haji Copies.
There’s two funny angles to this.
The first is that standard issue, self described “leftists” honestly believe that neo-nazi and fascist scum are “right wing”. They’re not. They’re just another clustergaggle of deluded retards willing to slaughter in the name of socialist utopia. Just like standard issue leftists the world over.
The second funny is how, as per usual, clueless the “leftists” are about their competitors in the retard socialist utopian moronisms. The neo-nazis are very much aligned with the jihadiscum. Always have been since the bad old days of the late ’30s.
It’s all good though. Just another few attempts with another few hundred million dead and someday, finally, the leftists just might “get it right this time”. Or, maybe, we get tired of their crap and cull em from the herd.
Here is a “Generic catch all” from the IVAW.
durka durka mohamed jihad!
Junior AG:
I heard many of my tankers using your generic catch-all to brush aside collateral casualties. I.E. “It sucks, but they were just Hajis.” A lot of our guys also used it while ridiculing Iraqi culture: To wave with the left hand was the Haji Salute. Haji prostitutes were little boys. I could go on. But the term was definately part of larger dehumanization. I am not pointing fingers here as I used the term in this way myself.
It does not, however mean that every member of the armed forces is a Nazi. But, dehumanization is clearly part of war.
Jonn:
I guess I’ve seen a little differently than you-my experience has been that if you want to stay on active duty, the Army doctors would work with you as much as humanly possible to allow you to stay even if you did have actual injuries. They actually tried to initiate a medboard process on me three years ago for my back, but a little stubbornness, begging, and telling them I could live with the pain they gave me a permanent profile instead. MRIs and X-rays will tell the tale that there are actual injuries, but pain is one of those things that is generally dependent on you on whether you can live with it or not. I do bash Army health care sometimes, but one of the things about it that is sometimes bad and sometimes good is that they tend to be really susceptible to pleas one way or another (at least until you hit the one doctor who isn’t). So I could see the potential that Army doctors might have been susceptible if, say, Geoff’s chain of command said he was essential or something.
Again, I don’t know what the requirements are for sending someone back from Iraq due to back pain-I’m just saying I believe his back pain is real.
“a permanent profile”
What a waste of tax dollars…..
“But, dehumanization is clearly part of war.”
War is the ultimate dehumanizer.
“The first is that standard issue, self described “leftists” honestly believe that neo-nazi and fascist scum are “right wing”. They’re not.”
True, but is there really a clear difference between the means that “neocons” and “progressives” use to attain their goals? Bush I and II had no problem attacking Iraq, a country that never attacked us and Clinton had no problems with interfering in the Balkans and bombing Serbia, a country that never attacked us, either.
Millard majored in African American studies. He strikes me as a wigger who would get one helluva race relations lesson if he ever had to do hard prison time. I worked in corrections for a stint, the look on a wigger’s face after they get fist phuqued by reality is priceless!
Geoff was National Guard, which offers no medical care. It’s not the same process as active Army.
“Geoff was National Guard, which offers no medical care.”
Um. Huh? If you deploy you can go to the VA for 5 years, even if the injury isn’t service connected.
When will the left learn that tactics need to be updated? This is the same smear meme from Vietnam only reheated.
I’m not saying Jonn is right or wrong just that the VA isn’t the Army. they don’t make decisions regarding someone getting out. he could get care, but that doesn’t reflect his discharge directly. it is not the same procedure as active where the medical and command are within the same operating area. that’s all i’m saying.
the guard is its own special little land of wtf.