{"id":2888,"date":"2006-05-29T13:08:20","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T17:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2888"},"modified":"2006-06-14T23:19:03","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T06:19:03","slug":"memorial-day-2006-a-veteran-of-the-iraq-war-on-his-experiences-fighting-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2888","title":{"rendered":"MEMORIAL DAY 2006: A Veteran of the Iraq War on His Experiences Fighting for America"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of Iraq & Afghanistan Veterans of America<\/a> (IAVA, formerly OpTruth) sends The BRAD BLOG<\/a> a few exclusive passages, as read by the author, from his new book Chasing Ghosts<\/i><\/a> — documenting his extraordinary experiences in Iraq.<\/p>\n

Paul was kind enough to send to us a copy of the book recently which we hope to be able to read in full some time this summer, if the gods ever lend us a few quiet hours.<\/p>\n

The title of the first chapter alone, however — “George Bush Had Better Be Fucking Right” — should highly recommend this book to anyone.<\/p>\n

Here’s Paul reading a few passages from the book, which we’re honored to run on Memorial Day, as just part of our thanks to those American troops fighting on our behalf…whether many of them like it or not. We particularly appreciate those like Reickhoff, and all of the tremendous folks at IAVA, who have had the courage to speak out<\/a> about where this Administration and this Congress is letting them down and where they are abysmally failing to adequately support our troops.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Our thanks to Paul for all of the above. Please enjoy the audio clip, and please consider buying the book. The Chasting Ghosts<\/i> website is right here…<\/a><\/p>\n

— Audio in MP3 Format…<\/a><\/p>\n

ADDENDUM…<\/b> Rieckhoff recently appeared as a guest on Steven Colbert’s show, just days after Colbert’s infamous appearance<\/a> at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. He talked about the book, and otherwise held up under Colbert’s “nailing” as well as I’ve ever seen anybody. Check out the video of Rieckhoff’s appearance on Colbert<\/a> if you didn’t catch it when it aired.<\/p>\n

UPDATE:<\/b> Broken links in this item now corrected. Sorry about that!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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