Tuesday, September 07, 2004

Bush and Cheney against military and veterans

The other day I was looking at a veterans for Bush website and it bothered me. This administration has sent our troops into a war without Kevlar vests and in vehicles without doors, floors or ceiling. They were sent into a desert in trucks not equipped to handle driving in the sand. The President threatened to veto the 87 billion resolution that included Tricare insurance for the National Guard that is serving in Iraq. This administration has closed VA hospitals and reduced veterans services. Haliburton which is STILL paying our Vice President over 150,000 dollars a year has through it's subsidiary Kellog Brown & Root has served our soldiers, those men and women who put their lives in danger for our security, SPOILED FOOD!

Our Vice President during his time in congress as a representative of Wyoming voted against Veterans Administration Funding in 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1986, 1987, and 1988.
For our brave members of Police Departments across the country our Vice President in 12/85
voted against removing armor piercing bullets from our streets.

When this administration claimed mission accomplished in 5/03 this allowed the government to stop paying the soldiers in Iraq an extra 75.00 a month for combat pay. For the 130,000 soldiers in Iraq this would be 10,000,000 a month while Haliburton has gotten 7 billion dollars in contracts of which over 1.7 billion dollars is missing and/or unaccounted for.

This administration has sent our soldiers in a war of choice without a war plan.
Money is missing from Iraqi accounts. Haliburton which got a no bid contract overcharged the government 61 million dollars for gas.
My question is this.
Why would any veteran vote foir Bush?
If you are a veteran who is lucky enough not to need the VA for anything why would you vote an administration that has never valued our military?
Our President has an unaccounted for year in Alabama when he was supposed to be serving his country. Vice President Cheney got 5 deferments during Vietnam. There is a story in the Guardian ( a U.K. newspaper) alleging that Bush was sent from Texas because he was a disorderly drunk.
During the Republican convention republican operatives were passing out bandaids with Purple Hearts on it which demeans all veterans service to this country.
Does this seem to be a party that values your service?
If like I said you don't need the VA or have a family member serving in Iraq think of the veterans that will need the VA when they return and vote for the person who will help them most.

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