WATCH ABC NOW!! Soldiers getting back to Iraq...on Primetime live...

[jab105]

WATCH!

PS-I only get ABC and FOX, and usually watch ABC...I often have the tv on for background noise...and I've NEVER seen an ad for this segment on the commercials...I've seen tons of ads for the part about the kid getting yelled at in the park, but nothing for this...WTF?!?!

[PretzelWarrior]

1. huh? tell more. I'm at a computer with no TV around..

help?

[Eloriel]

2. Thanks! n/t

[kerry-is-my-prez]

3. They have returned to poverty - no jobs and disabled.

They have no lump sum disability payments and are getting the run-around.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

4. Whoo-hoo! ABC is taking over where CBS left off

n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. The maladministration has lied...

On every point, including the weather. Why should they leave our soldiers out?

[Lefta Dissenter]

6. holy shit!

they want him to repay an enlistment bonus after he's been blown nearly to bits

and the Pentagon collection agency is hounding him

[ClintonTyree]

19. Yep...............

Thaaaaaaaaat's our military!! Use these young people to prop up Miltary Industrial Complex and when they're no longer of any use.........abandon them! It's the American way! Don't you just LOVE Capitalism? I guess it's not Capitalism I have a real beef with, it's the demented, selfish, sons of bitches that run the system.

Greed is maiming and killing these young people.

[txindy]

7. The injured have been billed by the Pentagon for the remainder

of their enlistment bonuses because they didn't serve their entire enlistment period! The failure to repay went on their credit reports and they couldn't rent an apt., get a credit card, etc. All while permanently disabled!

[jab105]

8. Lost arms, a year later, still doesn't know what he'll get...

Another was in Iraq, there was an explosion...he was supposed to die, now they want the enlistment bonus back, living out of his car!! Enlistment bonus on credit report as a government loan so he cant get an apartment!!

[jab105]

9. AND THEY STILL HAVEN"T SENT HIM HIS PURPLE HEART!!

n/t

[Lefta Dissenter]

11. well,

he can always paint a purple heart on a bandaid

[ClintonTyree]

22. The Republicans probably don't think....................

he's injured enough. They throw those Purple Hearts around like confetti you know.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

10. One guy is getting collection notices from the Pentagon

n/t

[jab105]

12. Military had no plan to help the soldiers...

had to panhandle for money to get care...

Said that some say it would have been better to have died...

[txindy]

13. Getting great treatment at Walter Reed, but no support from the military

Have to beg or borrow money to pay for relatives to visit.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

14. They have to rely upon charity, etc. to even have family members visit.

Another guy has to sell his home. There are no programs, etc. for these guys when they come home disabled.

[ClintonTyree]

24. Maybe some "Faith Based"............

organization will help him, do you think? :eyes:

[hatrack]

29. Quick, somebody call the Armies of Compassion!

I'm sure they'll straighten all these guys' problems! :eyes:

[txindy]

15. A policeman from Alabama is now disabled and can't be a cop, anymore

Will have to sell his home. Primetime Live paid for his airfare home to tape. He has no money. His wife and kids are doing without.

[Vickers]

17. But Tricky Dick Cheney set aside 15 seconds to get a photo-op w/ him

:eyes:

[jab105]

16. Guy was a police man in his dream house...blew (forgot which part)

up with a hand grenade...

will have to sell his house because he can't get back into civilian live where he was...

Wonders where Bush and Cheney are about all this//

[WolverineDG]

26. He can get a Pell Grant n/t

[txindy]

18. Up next, Brian Ross "takes on the Pentagon"

Shows him walking up the steps to the DoD, looking determined. Commercials! Buy, buy, buy!

[nostamj]

20. hey! gotta love those republicans!!!

and their SUPPORT FOR THE TROOPS!!!

/missy, this tea is tepid... DO bring a fresh cup with just a tiny drop of doctor JD. and KILL that cat on your way out won't you dear. such a fuss. my beautiful mind.... my beautiful mind...

[Lorien]

21. Private Johnson, living out of his car

can't get an apartment because his credit rating is RUINED. WHY?? Because the military wants him to pay them back for the medical treatment he got when he was wounded serving his country!!!

DAMMIT!!! :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :nuke:

[jab105]

23. General concedes that the pentagon has done poorly to his soldiers...

promises to fix it...

[aquart]

31. WHEN???????????????

[txindy]

25. General being "remarkably candid" about problems with support for vets

Having the problems fixed. Why did it take this show to get these issues fixed? Ah, Brian Ross just asked that question, too!

[Kanary]

27. I HOPE EVERY IDIOT VOTING FOR * IS WATCHING THIS!!!

YES, I MUST YELL!!

Thanks so much for the heads up. I've looked it up, and will record, and show this to every single RW I can find!!

"Support Our Troops" indeed!!

SHIT.

:nuke: :mad: :nuke: :mad: :nuke: :mad: :nuke: :mad: :nuke: :mad: :nuke:

Kanary, sputtering.........

Not surprised, but sputtering.......

[Politicub]

28. I don't know what to think

This election is getting crazy

[kerry-is-my-prez]

30. They showed Bush and Cheney and other pols showing up for photo-ops

n/t

[serryjw]

32. Here is the link..........

The show was heartbreaking. I wanted to kill Bushit & Co,

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Primetime/IraqCoverage/story?id=163109&page=1

[Kimber Scott]

33. Un - F*CKING - believable.

I'm speechless.

[Qanisqineq]

34. .

:kick:

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. Sweet Jesus...

Damn BushCo to HELL for this! :grr:

[ninkasi]

35. This is heartbreaking.

I wonder if word of this will be enough to sway some of the still "undecided" into voting for Kerry? If nothing else, people in other countries can see that the * administration doesn't just shit on foreigners, it shits on U.S. citizens, too.

Surely, even the most dense, knuckle-dragging freepers can see how evil this administration is. This election is going to be like no other we've ever seen.

[Carla in Ca]

36. I emailed ABC to thank them for that show

I also emailed Ted Koppell for his show. Wow, all of a sudden, media seems to be hitting hard. Oh, and the timing! I am so sad about these poor soldiers. And Nightline really going after the swiftliars, fabulous.
Two questions...
1. What are our elections coming to that we have SBV and Nightline going to Vietnam to interview villagers?

2. Do you think the show will help dull any impact that Sinclair's movie could make?

[Gin]

37. the people in the spotlight will be helped...finally...but those who are

suffering in silence are still suffering in silence. They must become vocal...and make their plight known collectively. Maybe then..the pentagon will take action for all.

[RollergirlVT]

38. Get out your pens folks!

Its time to write those letters to the editor about this story. Try to get it into every newspaper in the country for all the people that missed it. WTF is this administration doing to our kids?????

[nebula]

39. There's a reservation in hell for Bush and Cheney.

"But Johnson now lives in his car. It is where he spends most of his days, all of his nights, in constant pain from his injuries and unwilling to burden his family."

ABC

[RedEagle]

40. Please Help Point to Veterans Organizations That Get Donations Where...

...they do the most good.

Don't have much in dollars but donate as I can to Veterans organizations, especially those helping with medical issues.

I want organizations that get the most money to people who need it, not in middleman costs.

[prayin4rain]

42. Oh how horrible, how much more misery can this country stand?

Those poor soldiers. How dare these people do this to other human beings. I will lose my mind if George Bush is re-elected. ---)Or elected for this first time)

[TrustingDog]

43. Is this reported as one incident only?

I got the feeling from responses in this thread that this was more widespread but the abc article talks about only one guy - Johnson.

I'm sure it's happening way more often, but I don't want to send this story elsewhere without some other examples cuz you know what the freepers will say.

[nebula]

44. You haven't read all of it.

It says stories like Private Johnson's are not uncommon.


"Stories like Tyson Johnson's are not unique.

Many of the severely wounded soldiers returning from Iraq face the prospect of poverty and what they describe as official indifference and incompetence."

- ABC