Did you all know or are you aware that the administration and the military are screwing the soldiers in the middle east war just like they screwed the soldiers in Viet Nam?
To discharge any of our soldiers with a medical problem, specifically Post Traumatic Stress, they would have to pay for the soldiers' treatment. To avoid paying any money for this condition, they are discharging thousands of our men and women with a finding of Personality Disorder, a less than honorable discharge and no need to pay for their medical treatment. These soldiers have to pay for their own treatment and most of them cannot.
The administration (Bush) keeps sending our soldiers into battle, using them up, and then throwing them out without any hope for help when they become damaged because of what they experienced. Even those that can somehow qualify for medical "care" by the VA do not receive the best care. Here in the Phoenix area, the VA hospital has been cited more than once for providing substandard care to the vets. I don't doubt it's happening in many of the VA facilities. That's because our government is not providing the VA with what they need to provide quality care.
So, what has Bush been doing with those HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS that he's spent since he started this war against the better judgment of the UN? Why wasn't/isn't there enough to care for our damaged vets...vets who went to Bush's war at his command? Where do you think all that money went? How can anyone spend that much money in just such a short period of time? Scientists estimate there are more than 200 billion stars in the Milky Way. What Bush spent on his war is the equivalent of more than TWO BILLION DOLLARS for each of those stars. Look up at the stars on a clear night and try to comprehend just how much money that is! And the administration cannot and will not use any of it on so many of our vets who really need and deserve the medical care.
Why does anyone still support Bush and his administration? And he's getting away with it. He won't even have to resolve the problems he created. He's leaving office (and we'll all be providing him with the best medical care for himself and his wife for the rest of their lives) and he's leaving the entire mess he created for the next man to clean up. He won't be held accountable for all the damage he's done. He's getting away clean.
And I place some of the blame for his actions and the results of his actions on the people who voted for him and supported him and still support him. Where the hell do they have their heads? Up some dark hole in the lower part of their anatomy where Bush is?
I just had to get this off my chest. It really pisses me off that there's only a little bit of this on the daily news. They spend a lot more time on the ones who come back healthy or physically injured (call them heroes) but the ones with injuries in their mental health are ignored and thrown aside to fend for themselves. When they even deign to mention these vets, the media just glosses over it quickly and get on to the next story...inane superficial stories such as the latest chapter in Britney Spears' life or the Super Bowl. Why aren't they digging deeper into the stories of these unfortunate vets who believed their country and their president would look out for them?
Is this due to administrative policy? I believe so. Bush is arrogant and ambitious. He makes boasts and promises he doesn't keep. He lies. And the American people buy it, accept it, and do nothing about it. Didn't they try to cover up the truth of the death of pro football player Pat Tillman? Then it leaked out that he was killed by "friendly" fire. Or what about the prisoner abuse and torture policy at Abu Ghraib? The administration covers up any stories that would reflect badly on them. Reminiscent of the administration during Viet Nam.
We allow our president to send hundreds of thousands of our young people to war even when there is no viable reason for a war and then to desert them when they need help the most. How many vets were destroyed and swept aside and glossed over and forgotten by the presidency both in Viet Nam and in Iraq and Afghanistan and who knows where else?
Why aren't the American people angry about this? Why aren't the families of our soldiers angry? Why aren't they demanding that Bush and his military own up to their responsibilities and help all of our soldiers at any cost? Why aren't the Commanding Officers, the Generals and other senior officers standing up for their troops? I can only surmise that we no longer have leaders in the military who care about the soldiers and are maybe planning a political career for themselves by being Yes Men for Bush and his cronies.
The war in Iraq is not benefiting the US. It won't matter who runs Iraq when the US and Allies leave. Iraq will just revert to the kind of government they've always had. And all of our dead and injured will have died and suffered for no reason other than to get Bush his 2nd term in office. He has no compassion, no tact, no foresight, and no common sense. He just bulldozes his way through with his white house powers. He's an egomaniac to the extreme. He created a humongous mess in Iraq, then couldn't figure out a way to get out of there with honor, without looking like an ass. So for years, he continues to send more of our young people there, wasting their lives and so much money that could be better used on real world problems such as climate change and the genocide in Darfur. When all the killing and cruelty they see in Bush's war damages their mental health, Bush throws them out without fanfare or a second thought, without compassion and without appreciation for what our soldiers lost. He withholds funds to provide them with the mental health care they deserve and earned. Just ONE BILLION of the SIX HUNDRED FIFTY BILLION DOLLARS that he's spent on his useless war would have been a small price to pay for our vets' service at his behest.
Between an immoral Clinton and numbnuts Bush, I've lost all respect for our presidency and the people who elected each of them TWICE!!!
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