More IVAW questionable blather

A reader sent me an article from OpEdNews (Google it) with an account from Matthis Chiroux of his arrest at Hofstra University last week at the presidential debates. There was one paragraph I found exceptionally deceptive;

One officer, when I brought up the prospect of speaking to a lawyer,threatened to put me in the back of the jail, where, the big boys will pop your cherry! When I asked this officer if he had just threatened an honorably discharged veteran of Afghanistan with prison rape and told him I wanted his name and rank, he refused and told me to look it up on the police report which the Nassau County Police Department has refused to provide us a copy of.

Actually, it was one part of one sentence when he referred to himself as “an honorably discharged veteran of Afghanistan”. First of all, if he did indeed refused to honor his IRR recall, went AWOL and missed movement to Iraq, he hasn’t been honorably discharged. He hasn’t been discharged at all. Unless it’s ALL a lie. Like I said the other day, if the Nassau police recognized him as a deserter, they would have turned him over to the Army. I’m wondering if he was ever recalled – either way he’s lying.

He’s also not a veteran of Afghanistan. Witness this photo of Chiroux taken the other night at the protest;

Notice on Goldsmith’s right sleeve (Goldsmith is on the reader’s left), near his wrist, he has two bars. Each one of those bars represent six months service in a combat zone. Now notice Chiroux’s sleeve. Nothing.

I blew up the picture of his ribbons, too;

No campaign ribbons. He may have spent a few days in a combat zone, but he wasn’t stationed there. He was a straphanger. A pogue. A glory hound. A staff puke punching up his resume`.

A color picture;

And I figure any ‘bubba’ in jail that night would’ve been disappointed to learn Chiroux lost his ‘cherry’ long before last week by the looks of him.

Chiroux continued;

After my arrest, the police charged their horses onto a sidewalk and unprovokedly knocked my friend Nick Morgan, a veteran of Iraq, to the ground and trampled his face. They then arrested him, put a piece of gauze on his facewound and loaded him onto a bus headed for jail with the rest of the Hempstead 15.

Isn’t that cute…they have a name for their little group reminiscient of the 60s. How would Chiroux know what happened to the little group of children after he was arrested? Is he going by the stories of his fellow alleged hate-mongers? Like those guys on “Cops” that cry out “I didn’t do nuthin'”.

There’s a more hillarious account at Micheal Moore’s website (you’ll have to Google it, because I don’t link to fat boy’s website, either). Chiroux tried to accost the same arresting police officers at a diner near the station and got yelled at. While he wimpered and wiped snot from his upper lip, the police threatened to arrest him again. Which made him whimper even more. Too bad there are pictures of his swollen eyes and quivering lips.

You’d think they were recounting their time in Abu Gahrab or something.

The three who planned on getting arrested, Chiroux, Kokesh and Goldsmith complained that their injured compadre Nick Morgan wasn’t getting medical attention and looked as if he was suffering a concussion. I submit that Morgan wasn’t wired too tight before he got trampled by a horse. In his profile at IVAW, he demonstrates how the Maryland public education system failed him;

I was deployed when I was 19 and didn’t return home until several months after I turned 21. I was overseas for a year and a week, most of my time was spent in Baghdad (BIAP).

(Emphasis mine) Must’ve been 21 in dog years.

I guess they all figure this is going to be their last chance to get any publicity since the war is winding down and they’ve got nothing to complain about. Well, with any luck, McCain will win the election and they’ll have plenty of opportunity to make asses of themselves for four more years.

TSO: For the record, I am ashamed that my co-blogger Jonn woulod attack Matthis’ heroic 6 day tour of duty in Afghanistan. Just imagine the horrors he must have faced on Baghram Airfield. Between the $15 hour massages from Kyrgystani girls, and the dangerous trips down route Disney to the Baskin Robbins, I think what Matthis did really brings honor on himself and all those he hangs with. I mean, if 6 days on a walled compund with 10,000 troops doesn’t qualify as a tour of duty in A-stan, I don’t know what does. More on this story at my other stomping grounds.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War