Just throw them all on the pile - how the Bush Admin supports the troops

[sjdnb]

Source: NY Times

FORT LEWIS, Wash. — Twenty soldiers deployed to Iraq from this Army base were killed in May, a monthly high. That same month, the base announced a change in how it would honor its dead: instead of units holding services after each death, they would be held collectively once a month.

The anger and hurt were immediate. Soldiers’ families and veterans protested the change as cold and logistics-driven. Critics online said the military was trying to repress bad news about deaths. By mid-June, the base had delayed the plan.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/25/us/25funeral.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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I don't think I can get much more disgusted by this Admin's treatment of our troops, the truth, or the Constitution than I am at this moment.

[PurityOfEssence]

1. Can't go buryin' 'em retail if you're gonna be killin' 'em wholesale

America's about the bottom line.

[NanceGreggs]

2. That comment is so cold ...

... and so unbelievably precise. I wish it wasn't so on-the-mark - but it is.

[Cobalt-60]

3. They're trying to eliminate the funerals

So no one can count them.