War Veterans: Real troop support

[flamingyouth]

The slogan adorns bumper stickers and those yellow-ribbon trunk magnets: "Support Our Troops."

Great slogan. But is it anything more?

Most Americans have enjoyed a separate peace during the three-years-and-counting war in Iraq. The war has brought no hardships, demanded no sacrifices, except from the soldiers who've been called to fight it and their families, for whom the hardships and sacrifices have been very real.

P-I reporter Mike Barber brought that home Wednesday with the story of Staff Sgt. John Bennett, his wife, Dena, and their four children. Bennett was severely wounded in Iraq. Much of his long recovery and rehabilitation -- including his time at the Seattle VA facility -- was a nightmare for the family. They lived on credit cards and stayed in seedy hotels, far from home.

The war is producing a steady stream of badly wounded and disabled soldiers for which our veterans' facilities are unprepared.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/268084_vetsed.asp

[emald]

1. these disabled vets should be given first class treatment

and an income sufficient for life. Their medical care should equal the Senators, shouldn't it? I think so. Slogans and bumper stickers are for shit when you cut taxes and spending on anything other than an illegal war. The vomitus from *ushits mouth means nothing, the stroke of his pen everything.
Unfortunately, dimsum uses people; the republicans use people. I guess it's forever been the way of the world, the poor die for the rich. Ugly.

[tabasco]

2. I agree. The neocons have treated the military like dogs.

I am really ashamed to be an American right now.