Vets for Peace on a mission to Pakistan
Old Trooper sends us a link to the story of how some of the Veterans for Sitting on Our Hands are on their way on a trip paid for by Code Pink to South Waziristan demanding that more US troops be killed. Ostensibly, they’re there to bring us the stories of the “victims” of the drone war against terrorists, but not how they’re victims of the terrorists who reside there. or how they happen to be between the drones and the terrorists.
VFP President Leah Bolger said, “The use of combat drones is both immoral and illegal. They violate the sovereign airspace of countries that we have not declared war with, and have killed thousands of innocent civilians. Can you imagine how the American public would react if another country murdered our citizens with drones? The U.S. military favors the use of drones because they ‘save American lives’ — when will we start thinking of the lives of others as being as valuable as our own?”
Believe it or not, Leah Bolger is a Navy veteran and she’s traveling with Army veteran Ann Wright both of whom apparently want American troops formerly under their respective commands to die. While I’m not ready to admit that the drone war is particularly effective in winning the war against terror, I’m for anything that saves US lives and at the same grants the wishes of jihadists who are in a rush to meet their prophet.
It’s probably important that I point out that Ann Wright was also on the Board of Advisors of OpTruth, the Paul Rieckhoff-inspired predecessor to IAVA.
Category: Code Pink
Did anyone notice this tidbit? “Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin is an associate member of VFP.”
Is that like an Auxiliary member in the Legion and VFW??
OK … I will start.
First, NEWS FLASH …. them crazy terrorists over there chop off the heads of Americans. In the FBI they call that a clue. I would not go to Packofsand if it was the last know fun place to bring your family on summer vacation.
Second, CDR Leah Bolger, USN (Ret.) had one of the most under-whelming non-careers in US Navy history. Notice she retired right on time as a CDR at 20 years. Yes, she was passed over time and time again … well because she did not have what it takes. A non-leader, weak in the back bone, scares easy after dark, who now would rather hang out with the ENEMY.
Third, she is going on a possible on way trip and I wish her luck with her personal safety. No one likes seeing an American hurt overseas … this seems like a suicide mission of sorts!
Great! Time for a reality check, hippies!
If the United States government/military puts even one military member’s life at risk to “rescue” these idiots when the people of Waziristan find out that they are Americans, I am going to be INCREDIBLY pissed.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Perhaps they can accomplish something useful like observing the capabilities of drones, up close and personal?
Treasonous fools. Am quite certain that they will all be treated quite royally so that their propoganda value is assured.
Pakistan could you keep them? Please, please, please, pretty please with sugar on top
Don’t even get me started on COL Ann Wright, USA (Ret.).
This Packofsand trip is looking less like a peace mission and more like a honeymoon for these two.
Oh lets not forget their good buddy, Brian Willson.
He is that idiot that layed down in front of a train, presumably to protest the use of trains in our society (I guess), and yes … you got it … TRAIN = TWO … DUMBASS = ZERO.
We need trains. They carry everything from people to ordnance.
I don’t know what he was thinking!
Drones raise an interesting series of questions in my mind with respect to their use as a device to target specific individuals. In the absence of a declaration of war you now have the Executive branch using presidential powers to assassinate specific individuals in foreign countries against whom no war has been declared. With no congressional oversight in this situation, it gets into some rather dimly lit areas of powers assigned to the Executive vs Legislative.
Don’t misunderstand me, I have no problem with using them to kill whichever next highest guy in line at AQ we can remove with high order detonation. And as far as these j4goffs are concerned at VfP and Code Pink, I have zero tolerance for their brand of stupid.
I tend to overthink these types of questions…
“Veterans For Peace was founded in 1985 and has approximately 5,000 members in 150 chapters located in every U.S. state and several countries.”
Okay, lets do the math working from the assumption that the numbers are actual. First, 1985 is 18 years ago, give or take depending upon what month it was founded. So, over 18 years, this international organization has ballooned to 5,000. I wonder how that compares to the number of people who visit TAH in, say, a year. Next up is 150 chapters. The chapters are in every state (That number is 50, Mr. President), and in “several” countries. One is one, a couple is two, and several usually means three, sometimes four. Beyond three or four, the exact number is given, not “several.” So, that’s 50+3=53. 150/53= 2.83 chapters per state and country. If there are 5,000 members and 150 chapters, that’s 33.3 members per chapter (less than a platoon). In other words, there are more left-handed Chinamen over 6’7” in Newark and Hoboken, New Jersey on any given day than there are members of any Veterans for Peace chapter, on average.
Lots of time on your hands, AirCav? You devoted far more time to VFP and their offspring than I would. I’d have just left it at “who”?
Off to Pok-EEE-ston, eh? Someone might want to remind them that the authorities there don’t take kindly to hash smuggling.
On second thought, don’t. Let them load up and let the hilarity ensue.
@11. Yeah, I don’t even like numbers. They piss me off. I didn’t know what I was doing. I used the link and started scanning their tripe. (I’m into pain, I guess) At the bottom of the crud, I found that line which I abstracted. Like I said, I didn’t know what I was doing.
AirCav, that did kind of remind me of the conversation between the masochist and the sadist:
Masochist: “Hurt me!”
Sadist: “No.”
Please, someone, anyone, revoke the passports and visas of these two jagoffs so they cannot return to the US of A.
Did you say that math was not your major, AirCav?
Not that it matters much. The idiots overstayed their welcome a long time ago.
You should not drink and do math at the same time.
Filthy traitors.
Bolger is a convicted criminal and a model for the case against affirmative action. She’s a hag with no morals and no compunction when it comes to denigrating the country and organizations that are paying for her retirement. Filthy beeyotch, is what she is.
I’d be willing to bet she saluted the mailbox every month when that retirement check showed up, though.
@ 4 Susan, I’m with you. Let the Paki’s cut their heads off then boil them to make “cabeza”. Meat from the head of a cow! Actually it makes pretty good burritos, the cow not the assholes.