Matthis the combat vet

Someone sent me an article from a CUNY LaGuardia newletter in which Matthis Chiroux does his best Ward Reilly impersonation, trying to sound like a combat veteran for the hairy-legged hippie chicks at college;

Matthis Chiroux, a veteran at LaGuardia, and the last speaker, had the most powerful message of the event. According to Chiroux, out of all the nations in the world, the greatest threat to peace is not Iraq, Russia, or Iran, it’s the US. “USA has been involved in 80 wars since it became a colony,” said Chiroux in astonishment. As a veteran, Chiroux has firsthand knowledge about the gruesome nature of war. He once believed that what he was doing was right. However, his perspective changed when he saw innocent civilians slaughtered for a war they wanted no part of. He saw himself as a “tool for murder,” and refused to continue taking part in the war.He left the army as soon as he got the chance. Now, he speaks against the government in hopes that the US will cease “its’ dictatorial policies under the guise of ‘peace’” and leave other countries alone to live in peace.

Chiroux had “firsthand knowledge about the gruesome nature of war”…well, he had second or third or fourth hand knowledge of war. He saw innocent civilians slaughtered – well he was in a movie theater at the time , but he sat right up front and he was closer to the slaughter than anyone else in the theater that day.

In order to “continue” taking part in a war, you have to have taken part in it in the first place, Matthis. the only thing that he gets right in his little speech to moon-eyed community college chicks is that he’s a tool.

I ran across this photo of Chiroux – I think it’s from last year before he was discharged;

Notice he’s wearing an IVAW patch for a combat patch. Anything to perpetuate the image of combat veteran. Just like Ward Reilly.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Usual Suspects