IVAW’s misinformation campaign continues

There’s a website I go to sometimes called the IVAW OneStop that IVAW uses to keep track of everything that shows up on the web about them so they can swoop in on the website and squelch the negative comments. However it works both ways. Whenever they type something about themselves, we can see it, too.

Take for example Adam Kokesh. How many times have we heard him say that he only wants to end the war because he supports the troops. Well, from his website, how’s this for support for the troops;

He’s pretty proud of it, since it was made by his roommate. He supports the troops by insinuating that the troops are a bunch of retards.

Well, I found the cute little picture above on his website since there was a press release on the IVAW One Stop that he’d taken Winter Soldier on the road because the real Winter Soldier event was such a disappointment both to the participants and the media.

“We are happy to host Sergeant Kokesh. His efforts to end the occupation and war have been tireless. He shows that the best way to support the troops, and the people of Iraq, is by the immediate and unequivocal end to the illegal U.S. invasion and war.” said Carolyn S. Scarr of the Ecumenical Peace Institute, organizer of the weekly vigils.

Kokesh will also encourage students at East Bay high schools and the College of Marin not to enlist for military service. Thousands of service members are involuntarily having their tours of duty extended through the military’s stop loss program, keeping them in harms way and increasing the mental and emotional strain on each soldier. According to a study by the Rand Corporation, 1 in 5 U.S. soldiers who served in Iraq or Afghanistan – nearly 300,000 individuals – suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And documents released in a San Francisco Federal class action lawsuit against the Department of Veterans Affairs reveal that 18 veterans kill themselves everyday. For the sake of the troops, and the people of Iraq, the war must end now.

He still calls himself “Segeant Kokesh” even though he was busted from the rank of sergeant years before he was discharged for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back from Iraq. His DD214 says he’s a private – that’s his rank for life, not sergeant.

Oh, yeah and that little blurb about “He shows that the best way to support the troops, and the people of Iraq, is by the immediate and unequivocal end to the illegal U.S. invasion and war.” Well that and making fun of troops by calling them stupid and glue-eating retards.

Across the country, IVAW took their roadshow to UMASS;

Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) held an event Wednesday night to voice their opposition to United States involvement in Iraq.

Since its inception in 2004, IVAW has made three demands: the immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces in Iraq, reparations for the human and structural damages Iraq has suffered and full benefits, like adequate health care (including mental health) and other supports for returning servicemen and women.

The evening started off with film clips from “Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan,” an event held in Washington, D.C., last March. The footage served to set the tone as veterans discussed the ineffectiveness of U.S. forces in urban areas, racial issues, a disregard for the rules of engagement and a lack of leadership from the higher-ups in the chain of command. All of these problems would be further expounded upon by the IVAW panel from the Amherst chapter.

Apparently, since the media decided their Winter Soldier theater was pedestrian, and since there were veterans in the room who could call bullshit on them, IVAW has decided to go around the Truth, and take their lies straight to the minds of mush – and maybe score some hairy-legged hippie chics in the process.

But there’s more.

I found a website called “We Move To Canada” ostensibly for and by war resisters in Canada. they spread propaganda like this;

At this week’s meeting of the War Resisters Support Campaign, a new resister joined the circle. Also present was a resister who is back in Canada after serving time in a US military brig. He went back to the US to visit his family and was picked up on a traffic violation. A license check revealed his AWOL status, and it went from there.

Both of these young men told us that the US military jails are overflowing with “UA”s, as they called them – servicepeople who went AWOL and were caught. Jail conditions are horrible, although our newest resister told us he didn’t care, as it was suicide to do anything else.

By some reports from very credible sources, there are as many as 25,000 AWOL US soldiers out there. I can’t substantiate that, but even if that figure is slightly inflated, it’s clear that large numbers of US military personnel are resisting this terrible, useless war.

Yeah, the jails are teaming with war resisters. Does anyone honestly think there are 25,000 mothers keeping their mouths shut about their sons and daughters being shut up in horrible conditions in prisons across the country? I mean please.

Then there’s this little blurb on the Socialist Worker in a movie review of “Stop-Loss”, which the reviewer, IVAW member Martin Smith. claims isn’t anti-war enough (I’m shocked he’d think that);

In a dramatic confrontation, King tells his lieutenant commander, “With all due respect, ***k the president.” It is a moment that brought standing ovations and cheers from active-duty service people at a theater outside Fort Carson, according to Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) members who had passed out copies of Sit-Rep, the IVAW newsletter, at the film’s premiere.

Yeah, the IVAW members who were passing out anti-war propaganda at the theater said it happened, so it must’ve happened. I mean it was reported in that most reputable periodical the Socialist Worker by another IVAW member.

That’s why they continue this behavior – they live in an echo chamber of sociopaths where the same rumors and the same sick jokes get passed around and get the seal of approval from the other sociopaths. But they still support the troops and they still claim to love this country. Their actions speak louder than their words.

Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Phony soldiers