I’m an Iraq war veteran and this BS needs to stop.
I’ve read some of what Kokesh has written and I refuse to condemn the man. He stood by his beliefs and I can respect that. I spent 14 months in Iraq, being lied to over and over and over again.
“We’ll be out in 3 months, we’re not going to occupy, we’ve got inside people to take out Saddam....etc....etc”
The whole traitor label is BS too. Its the equivalent of the left-wing using the “global warming denier” label or race card to shut people up.
This is why I have no hope for change in the future. The Republicans send us up these false platitudes of “patriotism” and other nonsense to keep us in the fold, no matter how badly they screw up.
As it is, they look at most of us like a bunch of half-wits who they can scare into action through emphasizing Obama being the second-coming of Marx while not telling us exactly what they’d do differently.
But as long as we can get mad at people like Kokesh who choose to speak their minds, then everything else will be okay.
How many of those condemning Kokesh are aware of the vast amount of suicides and incidents of PTSD that have been occurring to those coming back from deployment? He’s one of the few who has spoken out about this and demanded better support and care for our troops.
I lost one of my dearest friends, who after 3 straight deployments, calmly walked inside his home, sat down, had a drink and put a round through his head due to unyielding combat stress.
I’m sick and tired of anyone who suggests that this whole war might not have been the greatest of idea’s or uses of resources being labeled a traitor or worse. I’m sick and tired of anyone who speaks about the negative aspects of nonstop deployments to combat troops being shouted down and ostracized.
some people postin gon this thread are pointing to the “work” that kokesh did to address ptsd in the iraq vets. i would submit to you that kokesh did little more than “talk” about the issue in order to aggrandize himself. kokesh was far to busy running around the country self-promoting. anyone who was seriously going to address the ptsd issue would have had to spent YEARS working on it.
this is just another case of kokesh saying the right things in order to dupe those around him.