{"id":4169,"date":"2008-09-05T13:50:15","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T18:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2008-09-05T16:31:22","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T21:31:22","slug":"mccain-ignores-concerns-of-iraq-veteran-during-acceptance-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=4169","title":{"rendered":"McCain ignores concerns of Iraq veteran during acceptance speech"},"content":{"rendered":"

Institute for Public Accuracy
\n5 September 2008<\/a><\/p>\n

“You Can’t Win an Occupation”<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Adam) Kokesh held up a sign — “You Can’t Win an Occupation” on one side and “McCain Votes Against Vets” on the other — at the beginning of McCain’s speech at the Republican convention last night.<\/p>\n

Video is at:
\nAdam Kokesh Protests McCain At RNC 09\/04\/2008<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DOaz7WhkFuo<\/a><\/p>\n

A member of the board of Iraq Veterans Against the War<\/a>, Kokesh said today: “It’s shameful McCain is running as a veteran considering how bad he’s been on veterans’ issues. He’s repeatedly voted against adequate Veterans Administration funding and he voted against the new GI bill.<\/p>\n

“McCain’s rhetoric about winning or losing in Iraq makes no sense — he’s simply failing to admit that it’s an occupation. The only way ‘victory’ makes sense is to end it as soon as possible and to rapidly bring the troops home.<\/p>\n

“I found it amusing that most of the delegates — acting like ‘dittoheads’ — tried to drown me out with chants of ‘U-S-A!’ Just two days before, I’d spoken at Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty and had the crowd there chanting ‘U-S-A!’ … I’ve found — after being sent to fight in Fallujah — that the biggest enemies of the Constitution are right here at home.”<\/p>\n

Kokesh’s “Revolutionary Patriot” blog — which includes video of his speech — is at: http:\/\/kokesh.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Related<\/em>: The photograph under review in the following reports appears behind McCain as the crowd is shouting down Kokesh. A school official has confirmed<\/a> it is Walter Reed Middle School in North Hollywood, California. <\/p>\n

Mystery Solved!
\nJosh Marshall, Talking Points Memo, 5 September 2008<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Late Update<\/em>: I’m surprised this hadn’t occurred to me. But several readers have suggested that perhaps one of the tech geeks charged with setting up the audio\/visual bells and whistles for the evening was tasked with getting pictures of Walter Reed Army Medical Center<\/a> but goofed and got this instead. At first I thought, No, that’s ridiculous. This is a major political party with big time professionals putting this together. Nothing is left to chance. I mean, is this the RNC or a scene out Spinal Tap or Waiting for Guffman? I still have a bit of a hard time believing they’re quite that incompetent. But when you figure in what appears to be the utter lack of any logic for this school being behind McCain and the fact that it has ‘Walter Reed’ in its name, I’m really not sure you can discount this possibility.<\/p>\n

(ed.note: Special bonus snark: That’s not stock photo keyword searching we can believe in.)<\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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