Spotting phonies is easy if you try
So I was tooling around the internet today and stumbled on this blog entitled “Left Coast Voices” by clicking on a link about how this lone hippie on the West Coast happened to come upon a former soldier in his local coffee haunt. The soldier happened to have a sticker on his laptop that read “Veteran Against Iraq War” so this particular hippie ventured to start a conversation with the soldier.
Of course, the soldier wanted to make sure that the hippie wasn’t an undercover government agent – you the kinds that are trolling coffee haunts for disgruntled former soldiers – there are millions of them out there, ya know. Because no veterans are allowed to speak out against the government.
That’s what made me suspicious of this particular tale told by an idiot.
But what solidified my doubts were these two lines;
I asked him if all Iraqis that he met felt this way [didn’t want US forces in Iraq] and he replied no. There are many who see teh [sic] US army as teh [sic] only things standing against the Taliban.
Yeah, because the Taliban is such a HUGE problem for Iraqis. I’ll bet those Taliban in Iraq are just waiting to get back at regular Iraqis for hanging Saddam Hussein, their leader.
But, see, it doesn’t matter that this particular soldier made such a HUGE mistake (I mean, anyone who had actually been in Iraq would know there are no Taliban in Iraq, right?), he said things that the jerry Garcia tie wearing toad wanted to hear;
…the reason the US was so involved in Iraq had to do with oil. He mentioned other countries that are suffering from violence and oppressive regimes to whom we are giving little more than lip service.
There, see that gives him legitimacy – the war is for oil, and this soldier said it, so he must be the real deal. The same goes for the organization Iraq Veterans Against the War. It doesn’t matter that they’re not really Iraq War veterans, as long as they reinforce what the anti-war creeps want to believe while they wear remnants of some uniform, whether it was their uniform or not…well, that’s all that matters.
Category: Antiwar crowd, I hate hippies, Iraq Veterans Against the War
What is even more laughable, consider if the war for oil argument was true? So what? When hasn’t war been about securing vital strategic resources our protecting our positions relative to the same. Grow up. Unless some figures out how to replace fossil fuels to power our society,this will be a fact of life. And then, it will be some other resource.
Ah, the war for oil argument. Why am I paying $3.50 for a gallon of gas? Notice the colors on their site? Commie flag anyone? Damn I hate hippies.
war for oil..um..uh..wheres the fucking oil?????????
What’s in the coffee?
“Spotting phonies is easy if you try”
Why try? They come to me. Sporkmaster and I have been dancing with one who is more lunatic than phony. No one could be as “out there” without being lunatic. I posted about him today in my near dormant blog, just to give him some reading material.
If you want to see the guy that the movies “Jarhead” and “Hurt Locker” were filmed about, I got him. He told me so himself. See him here: http://franksopinion.blogspot.com/
Wow, FO, now that is some studly stud you’re conversing with. All of that before he learned to shave?
Oh, and for “Left Coast Voices”, those guys in the protest pic on your net blurb aren’t really vets from the war, they’re IVAW, which seems to be an “organization” of those who didn’t serve.
And, like others said, where the hell is all that oil we’re supposedly taking from Iraq?
Yea he stopped talking to me after I asked him if people have been trying to kill him for so long that why was he still alive.