Why does the United States ( Republicans ) treat the Iraqi Veterans this way?

Question

Young Iraqi Veterans, alienated and often living on their own for the first time, Iraq and Afghanistan veterans increasingly are coming home to find that they don't have a home. Already, nearly 200,000 veterans—many from the Vietnam War—sleep on the streets every night, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. But young warriors just back from the Mideast—estimated around 800 to 1,600—are beginning to struggle with homelessness too. However, the rich Republicans who supported the war do not help "OR" do not care about the Veterans. This is the Republican way and it will always be the Republican way to tell the returning Veterans "Sorry! You're on your own".

Answer 1

Because our soldiers' lives mean nothing to them. They are only interested in the money they can make off this war. They are cold, heartless, evil people who will get their just rewards in the end.

Answer 2

While I understand your feelings, and I do know that there are psychological reasons for some of the problem, it isn't just the Republicans who are at fault. We the people are just as much at fault for the problems that exist. We the people do not tell our own government how we feel and what we want done. When it comes down to money, very few of us are willing to pay for what these people need.
If you are going to whine about what the Republicans are doing, then I have to ask, what are you doing to alleviate the problem? I'll also make it known that there are very good programs that have been set up for aid to the veterans. The issue, however, is the red tape to get these things done. What have YOU done to alleviate the issue of making loans easy to get for those who would like to build homes for the veterans? Nothing, yes? Nothing at all, just whining about the problem but not even 1, not even just 1 letter or email or phone call to your representatives to make things easier for our current and past veterans. Since this is the most likely case, why blame the Republicans when YOU have done nothing about it? Put your time and effort into helping the problem rather than making a lot of noise and blaming someone convenient. Blame yourself for the problem because YOU, nor any other whiner, has done a thing about it. One point that has to be made, you can't force someone to live some where where they do not wish to live. If these homeless choose to be homeless, than that is their choice. It is not the place of the government, nor YOU nor anyone else to force them to live where they do not choose to live. They have issues that they have to work out for themselves. Don't be a whiner who uses yellow journalism to try to make a point until you have all of the information about the issue. Walk many miles in our shoes, and then you MIGHT have something worth hearing to say about the problems at hand.

Answer 3

I'd be curious to see a link to a news story on this.

That said, I think the situation at Building 18 of the Rehab Hospital in DC pretty much speaks to the truth that the government doesn't "support the troops" anywhere near as much once they've already suffered brain injury or lost body parts for our country.

Answer 4

i dont know how long its going to take before people come to the realization that our government has no feelings for the general population. everything is a statistic. you can blame it on the republicans if you want, but i dont think the dems. are any better. face it, our government needs an enima. unfortunatley it will never happen. all of them are a piece of sh#t

Answer 5

i hope you know that every 'rich' republican is this way...what about democrats? what about anyone?
what about veitnam, my grandfather went there was shot in the leg and was left there. he had to hide under dead men so he would not become like them....forgotten. who said thank you when he came home to nothing?

i care about the people that make it possible for us to say we are free everyday, i say thank you, my parents say thank you...do you say thank you?

i was raised a republician, im not rich, although i believe i shouldnt have to pick whether im a republician or a democrat...i believe that we should be able to pick the best leader at the time that can help our country...whether he/she may be republician or democrat.


PS- AS YOU HAVE PROVED IN YOUR OTHER QUESTIONS YOU DONT CARE EITHER, and you are not a repubilician...but a HYPOCRITE!! and you dont deserve the same respect as VETERANS do.

(thank you john b, for your answer)

Answer 6

Why do most people treat others with any disrespect or inhumanity? I can't understand it, human beings are becoming more and more uncivil every day. It's a travesty.

Answer 7

It's not just Republicans, ALL politicians turn a blind eye once the troops are not part of their agenda. Congress is Republicans and Democrats ERUDITE, they deserve equal blame for your question.

Answer 8

Chicken George knew 9/11 was coming and did nothing, allowing thousands of people to die and be exposed to cancerous substances.
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2004/03/hearingsrevealadministration.html

Chicken George knew Enron, WorldCom and other corporations were committing massive fraud and allowed it to happen, destroying the life savings and jobs of thousands of people.
http://www.alternet.org/story/12155/
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/26/1410248
http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2004/05012004/may-june04corp1.html
http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0813-04.htm
http://money.cnn.com/2002/06/25/news/worldcom/

Chicken George knew Enron and others were deliberately causing the phony "power outages" in California (the only state affected, and the only state with a deregulated energy industry) to raise prices and rip off customers.
http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0815-07.htm
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/california/subsequentevents.html

Chicken George knew the Israeli terrorists were firing clusterbombs into civilian areas and that Hezbollah were NOT located in said civilian areas (Israel has since admitted it knew this _before_ they attacked last summer) and continued to supply the Israeli terrorists with weapons while at the same time helping the Israeli Apartheid government cut off food and water from the Palestinian civilians causing hundreds to die in a Soviet-style pogrom.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/761781.html
http://mindprod.com/politics/israel.html

Chicken George knew the levees in New Orleans wouldn't hold by cutting the budgets for their maintenance, and knew that thousands of people were going to be left in harms' way when they did, leaving all those who remained (all of whom were black and/or poor) to die.
http://thinkprogress.org/2005/08/30/as-katrina-struck-bush-vacationed/
http://www.seattleweekly.com/2005-09-07/news/bush-blows-katrina.php

Chicken George knew Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and then orders the US military to USE weapons of mass destruction on Fallujja.
http://mindprod.com/politics/iraqwarpix.html#IRAQWARPIX
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/031027fa_fact
http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/

Chicken George commits all of these crimes against humanity, and you're claiming to be _surprised_ that he stripped the veterans' affairs administration to pay for tax cuts which benefit the rich?

Not to be insulting, but you must have been blind, naïve, or oblivious not to notice this by now. I knew he was capable of all such atrocities even before he turned the Whitehouse into the Whorehouse.


> In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of
> protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla
> Faye Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush
> whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any
> of them," he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest,
> most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with
> Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his
> interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult
> questions like, 'What would you say to Governor Bush?'"
> "What was her answer?" I wonder. "'Please,'" Bush whimpers,
> his lips pursed in mock desperation, "'don't kill me.'" I
> must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned
> prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel —
> because he immediately stops smirking.

- Tucker Carlson,
rightwing mouthpiece and Bush apologist (99% of the time)


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Answer 9

That's because Republicans are generally more close-minded than democrats and have difficulty relating to things that have no benefit to them or that are different from them. They're stuck in their own little circles and will have the world around them self-destruct as long as everything in that little circle is running smoothly. Who cares about everyone else?

Answer 10

notice what you said first Americans.its not just Republicans its both parties. its the politicians in general.dont blame nothing on eather party they are all crooked.simple as that