The 21st Century G.I. Bill and short-sighted 'deficit hawks'
This type of info should be made available immediately. The people should have the final say on whether the GI Bill is passed or not. It is their money and it should be spent where they want to be.
America's Medicated Army -- Printout -- TIME
The more things change, the more they stay the same.......somethings remain the same from war to war.....Vietnam to Iraq...a medicated Army.
Vets for Peace Booted from National Memorial Day Parade
Now this is just flippin' wrong.....if anyone has a right to protest for peace it is the vets that fight the damn war. Cannot have these people out there contradicting the popular stand on the war and the surge.
Oh good, 4000 deaths and the Prez has this to say, "One day people will look back at this moment in history and say thank God there were courageous people willing to serve because they laid the foundations for peace for generations to come [and] I have vowed in the past and I will vow so long as I am president to make sure that those lives were not lost in vain,"
Just who has the deaths benefited? The Iraqis? Do not think so! The US? Well, yes, there it is, the answer. Who has gotten rich off the invasion? Halleburton, Blackwater, and others within the military-industrial complex.
On the tube when Cheney was ask about the opposition to the war by the American people, he said "SO". Now there is the real answer to why the war continues. The elites want it, so be it.
Language is being used by the WH to control the situation and the attitudes toward the war. What? Take surge for instance, a surge is a limited influx of something with an end to come. Like a surge of power, it ends. Want another? How about regime change? Instead of what it was an invasion. Again? It is called a war, but it is an occupation. Check history! You people are allowing these people dance you around like a cheap WHORE. Don't think so? Then why are all returning dead taboo to the media? Why are all services for the dead taboo to the media? Ok, family privacy, is a good call and in most cases legit. News of this would swing the support away from the bullsh*t that they have been cramming up your ass for 5 years.
Wake up people!
It has been 40 years since the cruelty of the My Lai massacre. Many will not remember the name until they are reminded by someone whi does. The media will let this go and it will be remembered officially by few with the exception of the Vietnamese people.
March 16, 1968
Charlie Company landed following a short artillery and helicopter gunship preparation. The soldiers found no enemy fighters in the village on the morning of March 16. Many suspected there were NLF troops in the village, hiding underground in the homes of their elderly parents or their wives. The U.S. soldiers, one platoon of which was led by Second Lieutenant William Calley, went in shooting at "suspected enemy position". After the first civilians were killed and wounded by the indiscriminate fire, the soldiers soon began attacking anything that moved, humans and animals alike, with firearms, grenades and bayonets. The scale of the massacre only spiraled as it progressed, the brutality increasing with each killing.
The report concluded that the Task Force commander responsible for the operation, Col. Frank Barker, had failed to "make clear any distinctions between combatants and noncombatants in their orders and instructions." The result, it stated, was that he had "conveyed an understanding that only the enemy remained" in My Lai.
The report asserted, however, that there was no higher command responsibility for what happened in My Lai. It concluded that the policy guidance from Gen. William Westmoreland, the commander of all U.S. forces in Vietnam, was "consistent in adhering to the humane standard of protecting the civilians within the combat zone."
A grateful nation? Thanks from a grateful nation? It is Veterans Day and what are we thanking the vets for? Their service to the nation? Some had no choice. For their protection of America? Maybe in some case. Why is the nation grateful? Grateful that they did not have to serve? Grateful that they were not maimed or killed? What are they grateful for?
Please a yellow ribbon or some lame magnet is not showing your gratitude. You want to thank the vets? Then get off your ass and demand that they get the treatments they deserve and the compensations they deserve. Write letters, make calls, send emails, DO SOMETHING!
THE VETS COVERED YOUR ASS, NOW IT IS TIME TO COVER THEIRS!!!!
Yes, I said! I meant it! DO SOMETHING!
CHUQ
Yes they are! A really, really fine screwing!
Americans buying stupid magnets and fly flags and put little cardboard signs in the yard and lastly they have yellow ribbons on trees. What a crock of crap! But yet, they still support the Administrations complete f*cking of the troops and vets.
They are asked to endure extended tours away from their loved ones. They are asked to put their lives on the line for the World. And what do they get in return?
A military hospital that was no better than abu Grebh. They get refusal of medical benefits or at best reduced medical. They were exposed to a new bacterial disease that is baffling doctors. And they were refused their education benefits when they return.
Now you sanctimonious a/holes what part of this is a support for the people you ask to fight and die, while you sit on your asses and complain about the price of eggs? Thomas Paine had a name for people like you--Sunshine Patriots!
And the media----what a bunch of ass wads these people are--ALL OF THEM! They will report on some guy with a guy and some high speed chase that has nothing to do with news. But yet they will not report on a daily basis the battles that the vets most fight everyday. And the really sad part is those battles are against the very country that put them in the position to be injured or killed. One of you self-centered little ass wipes explain that to me and the rest of the vets .
I am a vet, and thank God I did not need the government's help when I came back from Vietnam. But someone has got to step up and demand that these people be treated with the respect they deserve. I am ashamed and embarrassed by the people of the US. they are self-center little pricks that deserve no respect or consideration in any way.
I am disgusted daily, by the news of the treatment of out troops and vets. Nothing can be done or said that can change my attitude toward this f*cked up society.
Yes! I am CHUQ and I meant every f*cking word!
CHUQ
05 Oct 07
