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bzarcherThe White House is conducting a formal campaign to sweep the wounded and injured out of the way. The dead are being dishonored and hidden on a scale that is unprecedented in our nation's history. Soldiers are being denied treatment for injuries and kept in poor condition on American soil so that they will not be taken off of military facilites.
The administration isn't even sending recognition to funerals or when the dead arrive back on U.S. soil. This is the first time that the dead have been totally ignored since the Revolutionary war. Even in the Civil War condolences were formally extended to funerals.
Walter Reed military hospital is past capacity. But instead of putting paitents in John's Hopkins or other area hospitals? They're putting them in hotels near the hospital.
Think about that a second.
At Fort Stewart, they aren't even being given the comfort of hotels. Just 60 people to a barracks, where they are forced to pay for their own housing, supplies, and until recently, their hospital meals. The White House actively fought to decrease the amount of government support that soldiers wounded in the service of our country were given.
Irregardless of the war's purpose or 'success', that military personell are being treated so disgusts me. And meanwhile, we give a book and movie deal of a particularly photogenic Private, Second Class, who disobeyed orders, went down the wrong road, and got herself shot.
Congratulations. No matter who they run, the Administration has guaranteed that I'm voting Democratic.
The administration isn't even sending recognition to funerals or when the dead arrive back on U.S. soil. This is the first time that the dead have been totally ignored since the Revolutionary war. Even in the Civil War condolences were formally extended to funerals.
Walter Reed military hospital is past capacity. But instead of putting paitents in John's Hopkins or other area hospitals? They're putting them in hotels near the hospital.
Think about that a second.
At Fort Stewart, they aren't even being given the comfort of hotels. Just 60 people to a barracks, where they are forced to pay for their own housing, supplies, and until recently, their hospital meals. The White House actively fought to decrease the amount of government support that soldiers wounded in the service of our country were given.
Irregardless of the war's purpose or 'success', that military personell are being treated so disgusts me. And meanwhile, we give a book and movie deal of a particularly photogenic Private, Second Class, who disobeyed orders, went down the wrong road, and got herself shot.
Congratulations. No matter who they run, the Administration has guaranteed that I'm voting Democratic.
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Date: 2003-11-05 06:59 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-05 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-06 07:11 am (UTC)One of my more conservative friends told me recently I had a 'bad attitude' about the Administration and the troops.
If concern is a bad attitude, then I love being a bitch.
Oh...hi,
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Date: 2003-11-06 07:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-06 08:46 am (UTC)I can't help but wonder how much of the realistic post-war contingency planning was brushed aside as pessimistic nay-saying?
I'm going to stop here before I get sucked into an hour long rant I don't have time for right now ...
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Date: 2003-11-06 09:28 am (UTC)Stupid A**holes
Date: 2003-11-06 10:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-06 12:53 pm (UTC)