Another reason to doubt the 1st Lady’s intentions
I know the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America does some good work, generally, but I shy away from anything that connects to them. Seein’s how they began as Paul Reickhoff’s Bush bashing OpTruth website and started sending out a purely partisan scorecard for Congress, every election season, they’re not the non-partisan group they pretend to be.
Now, I see they’re supporting the First Lady’s and Jill Bite Me’s sudden interest in military families;
“Today, the First Lady and Dr. Biden have issued a challenge to America and initiated a new movement to support military families. This is a great first step. We’re encouraged to see them leverage their powerful platform to rally Americans around these important issues. Their leadership in this space starts a long overdue dialogue at dinner tables across the country about the mounting challenges our military families face every single day,” said IAVA Founder and Executive Director Paul Rieckhoff.
There are no details for this “program” but Reickhoff gloms onto it for the name recognition alone. That name recognition is part of the reason I’m skeptical in the first place. With Bullethead involved, I’m definitely stepping back until it blows up or fizzles out.
Category: Barack Obama/Joe Biden, Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
Just another program to siphon votes from spouses, even as the budget cuts force the services to put family programs on the shelf.
Rieckhoff is a partisan A-hole. If the First Lady wanted to put her name behind something it should be programs already in place such as Soldier’s Angels, USO, etc.
Frankly, this stinks of politics for the 2012 Presidential race.
I am generally pissed at most VSOs right now, but the IAVA is at the top of my shit list. For nearly two years IAVA took the lead in pushing for changes that are going to cost active duty veterans using the Post-9/11 GI Bill thousands of dollars. The IAVA also hasn’t held the Obama administration and that incompetent boob Shineski for making DVA an even bigger clusterfuck. Oh sure they gave Alex Horton and Beeker a blog (which I have posted on and I think is great) but still they fucking suck at their primary mission of distributing veterans benefits. What have they hit them on? Their social media presence. Yeah, fucking great.
I’ve made it a point of telling all my buddies from the Corps and any other OIF/OEF veteran I encounter to avoid IAVA and IAVA-sponsored activities like the plague. They are not doing our community any good.
Tell us how you really feel, Dan.
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