WCW at Warped Tour
This very mature group of veterans manned a booth at the Warped Tour punk rock concert in Mountain View, CA this weekend for World Can’t Wait‘s We Are Not Your Soldiers.
Oh, wait, there’s only one veteran in the group – Robin Long who absconded to Canada before his unit deployed to Iraq. And he’s the expert on the Iraq War;
Some people thought Iraq had attacked the US on 9/11, and they didn’t know the difference between Al Qaeda and the Taliban. We asked them how Islamic Fundamentalists became a force in the world, and many of them would say that they have been around forever. They insisted that civilians being killed by the U.S is not the fault of the military but the result of “bad apples.”
Robin talked about his experience in boot camp, where people are TRAINED to kill civilians – and that is why he resisted. He gave examples of being taught to shoot civilians and degrade people, especially Middle Eastern people. People would bust through the crowd and jump into the conversation, saying that these wars were wrong and they were on our side and would sign up on the spot.
Yeah, that’s how you win wars – by training to kill people who have nothing to do with the war. Long is still trying to make excuses for his bad behavior.
I wonder who the giant pedophile is in the back row of the picture.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Phony soldiers
“We asked them how Islamic Fundamentalists became a force in the world, and many of them would say that they have been around forever.”
Well, not forever. But they have been around since the time of Muhammed, roughly the seventh century AD. The US wasn’t around at that time, so it’s hard to pin the blame for that on us, but I’m sure they’ll try. Islamic Fundamentalism really took off with the founding of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt in 1928. Again, we had nothing to do with that.
I think I can anticipate the WCW line on this matter: “Oh sure, Islamic fundamentalists are really bad, but WE created them.”
Sure. As if they needed any assistance being savages. That’s a classic tactic of the left.
Right. I’m sure that the politically conscious group of 16 year olds whose parents got them tickets to Warped Tour were in no way placating the group of orange clad weirdos who got in their face while they were making their way toward the All-American Rejects set. Nope, they probably went straight home and changed the world.
“He gave examples of being taught to shoot civilians and degrade people, especially Middle Eastern people.”
I would love to hear some of those examples, Mr. Resister.
I’m not sure how much training it would take to just kill indiscriminately. These a**whipes just believe whatever people tell them! Arg.
That’s what they taught him in basic training? That’s strange; I don’t recall being trained to do that. I must have been on sick call on that day. That sucks, because I would have really liked to get that special training. I got robbed!! I want to get that training retroactively!!
What really happened to Robin is that the only epiphany that he had was the realization that he’s a pussy, but it sounds better to the hippie chicks if he leaves off the truth and goes with the “trained to kill civilians” schtick.
Ah, IVAW at it’s finest! Another person who has never deployed talking about the war and lying by wearing that stupid t-shirt. Listen, I’ve called that Army on a lot of things because it was the truth.
We where NEVER trained to kill civilians, degrade another culture, or anything along those lines.
These people are so full of shit. But they really care about Vets!
“We Are Not Your Soldiers.” Thank got you ain’t!
“Robin talked about his experience in boot camp, where people are TRAINED to kill civilians.”
Was I on K.P. the day they taught that at Benning? I started as an 11B, now I’m a REMF, long story, won’t bore you with the details…
What were all those ROE classes stressing shout-show-shove-shoot, flags, air horn and escalation of force classes I took at Bragg & Camp Shelby about?? Why is it when I did draw down on an Afghan and he backed down, I didn’t shoot him?? Guess I’m a lousy notzi or whatever it is WCW considers me to be…