This is how McCain supports our soldiers?
May 25, 2008 by Dusty
Tomorrow is Memorial Day and I plan to run a piece by a veteran of the Iraq War. Today however, we take Weathervane McCain to task for his lies and bullshit he spews about supporting our soldiers. I hate this man like I hate Bush…perhaps even more so because he IS a veteran. May
he suffer as our soldiers do..a thousand times worse for all eternity.
From Think Progress:
McCain’s record on supporting veterans is one of the worst in Congress. IAVA has given him a grade of a “D” for voting against veterans’ priorities so often between 2000 and 2006. A scorecard of roll call votes compiled by the Disabled American Veterans found that McCain has voted for veterans funding bills only 20 percent of the time. For example, in May 2006, he voted against an amendment providing $20 billion to the Department of Veteran Affairs’s (VA) medical facilities. In April 2006, he was one of just 13 senators to vote against providing $430 million to the VA for outpatient care “and treatment for veterans.” McCain has railed against comprehensive universal health care and wants to give veterans the “freedom to choose to carry their V.A. dollars to a provider that gives them the timely care at high quality and in the best location.” But as New York Times columnist Paul Krugman notes, “[T]he Veterans Health Administration is one of the few clear American success stories in the struggle to contain health care costs. … [I]t’s an integrated system — a system that takes long-term responsibility for its clients’ health — to deliver an impressive combination of high-quality care and low costs.” McCain’s plan, however, would “privatize and, in effect, dismantle the V.A.” In his narrow-sighted focus on eliminating earmarks, McCain may also cut funding for military housing.
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well you just can’t keep the poverty draftees willing to give up their lives and their sanity and their limbs and their brains if there are other opportunities out there.
WE HAVE A POVERTY DRAFT. we do. and i want to see that well publicized and i want people to get that. in this economy, for many groups of young people, the military looks like the best option because there’s simply nothing else.
so warmongers like john mccain and his ilk will NEVER do anything that will interfere with keeping those warm bodies coming. never.
all of which leads me to the wholly inarticulate but purest expression of my disgust for these people: fuck these lying, conscienceless bastards. fuck them.
You bet your beautiful ass its a Poverty Draft Belle! I concur and I am sick of it.
The rightwing nutjobs will point to the career military to prove their point that it isnt…such bullshit. The enlistee’s are the ones that are taking the most hits…both as injured and killed in Iraq.
We give them little if ANY training then ship them over there without proper equipment. Heinous bastards that run our government are rewarding the shoddy manufacturers with more and larger contracts.
Yet our government tries systematically to remove anything that provides aid, comfort, medical, or education for those that are lucky to survive their third or fourth deployment.
Fucking bastards.