Geezers for Peace honor a geezer for peace

Someone sent me this article from Palm Springs’ Desert Sun that tells us that former colonel Ann Wright gets *surprise* an award from the Geezers For Peace;

Wright will be recognized today in Palm Springs with a Silver Helmet Award by the local chapter of Veterans for Peace at its annual banquet.

“We admire her integrity, courage and dedication to the cause of peace,” Veterans for Peace President Tom Swann said in written statement.

For those of you who don’t who Ann Wright is, she resigned her post with the Bush State Department in protest of the war in Iraq. Her posting was in Mongolia, so I’m sure she was a real valuable asset to the State Department and they were sorry to see her go. That was sarcasm, by the way. I’m pretty sure State doesn’t send important employees to Mongolia.

She claims that while she was in the military she was stationed in Afghanistan, Granada, Nicaragua and Somalia. I’m having a little trouble believing all of that, which is why I’ve had a FOIA request in for her records since last month. But, her reasons for resigning on March 19, 2003 were;

In her resignation letter, Wright listed four reasons she could no longer work for the U.S. government under the Bush administration:

* The decision to invade Iraq without the blessing of the U.N. Security Council
* The “lack of effort” in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process
* The “lack of policy” in regard to North Korea
* The curtailment of civil liberties within the United States.

So the reason she resigned was because President Bush didn’t allow her and her cohorts to make policy for the United States. In other words, she won’t be missed. She just generally makes a pest of herself since her resignation, interrupting Condoleeza Rice’s testimony to the Senate Foreign Relation Committee in 2006 and sleeping in a ditch with Cindy Sheehan in Crawford, TX in 2005.

In her interview in the Desert Sun she tells us;

It’s the responsibility of us, as U.S. citizens, to question our government. We have the responsibility to look closely at our government.

So I wonder when she’s going to start speaking out against this Democrat government. I won’t hold my breath.

She also says;

I never really got any “You’re a traitor” or “You’re unpatriotic” because I worked for the government for so many years. To call me unpatriotic didn’t make any sense. Very few people approached me in that manner.

Alger Hiss worked at the State Department for fourteen years. No one with a bit of common sense could deny he was a traitor – it’s not your length of service, Wright, it’s what you do while performing that service.

And now the Geezers for Peace give her the Silver Helmet Award. I’d really hoped it was me that got the award for exposing so many phonies in VFP’s ranks, but it was not to be this year – maybe next year after I expose Ann Wright.

I wonder if this is the “Silver Helmet Award”;

Category: Antiwar crowd, Liberals suck, Phony soldiers, Usual Suspects