IAVA responds to This Aint Hell’s critique of their Congresional Report card
response from Paul Rieckhoff, Executive Director of IAVA:
Hey Matt,
I wanted to respond to the link posted here yesterday by the guys at This Ain’t Hell attacking IAVA and the IAVA Action 2008 Congressional Report Card. I hope you will post this, and let your readers hear from us in response to TSO’s recent post. Glad to see that he personally likes me. I only wish he put his real name on his posts so I knew who it was that was attacking my integrity and that of our organization.
We’re sorry to see TSO leave our membership. But like any veteran, that is of course his right. We have a broad diversity of political opinions within our membership, and encourage everyone who has served in combat since 9/11 to join us. But we don’t charge for membership. Never have and never will. IAVA and its thousands of members are proud of the work we do every day. And I want to set the record straight for the readers of Blackfive (and anyone else who is interested). (continued)