Is this how Bush and Cheney support the troops?

Question

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army's new acting surgeon general said Tuesday she is concerned about long-term morale because the military lacks money to hire enough nurses and mental health specialists to treat thousands of troops coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan."

How much of their proposed military budget is allocated for this little problem? If you said "none", got to the head of the class.

Answer 1

They cut funding for the mentally disabled from the Korean and Vietnam wars, so what makes you think there is any funding for the current wars? Bush and Cheney are chickenhawks that never served, they have no concept of war, and or the outcome.. I do see George Bush vetoing the Military budget; because it doesn't have his embezzling cut included in it.

Answer 2

GOOD POINT, BUT THERE GOES THE DAMN BUSH SUPPORTERS BLAMING THIS ON DEMOCRATS TOO.

SO BUSH SUPPORTERS DOES BUSH OR ANYONE ON HIS ADMINISTRATION HOLD ANY RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANYTHING THAT WENT WRONG IN THIS POINTLESS WAR? LET ME GUESS NOWAY I MEAN ONLY THE DEMOCRATS WANTED THIS WAR RIGHT AND HAD NO PLAN GOING IN RIGHT. WHATEVER , IT MUST BE NICE TO LIVE IN YOUR LITTLE WORLD.

Answer 3

Maybe they could hire some if the Democrats didn't slash their funding.

If Bush and Cheney are in charge of military spending, why do they have to keep asking for more money?

Answer 4

Here's your sign......Congress allocates funds for the military, aren't Democrats running Congress now. The conical hat is yours I believe.

Answer 5

Damn, my wife sits on a board that selects nurses to crossover from the enlisted ranks to the officer side and she says they are desperate for nurses. They recruit strongly at nursing schools and offer huge bonuses for nurses that sign up. I think you need your facts checked.

Answer 6

Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney do NOT make those decisions.
Try Congess and go to the back of the class!

Answer 7

i dont want to go to the head of the class

Answer 8

"Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy"- Henry Kissinger

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. - Ernest Hemmingway

28 million veterans are currently using VA benefits. Another 70 million Americans are potential candidates which amount to a quarter of the country's population. Veterans and their families will sadly begin finding that they have no place to turn for their medical treatment as V.A. hospitals across the country face closing their doors. With the budget shrinking, staff will have been let go. Approximately one out of every two veterans could lose their only source of medical care. That is, if they even realize help is available to them. The Bush Administration recently ordered V.A. medical centers to stop publicizing available benefits to veterans seeking assistance.

This follows discontinued enrollments of some eligible veterans for healthcare benefits as of January, 2003. Bush Administration funding cuts will also prevent veterans from receiving their disability pensions. Under the Bush administration, being granted the ability to receive war related compensation has become a rare privilege, not a right as it should be.

Nearly a third of Gulf War veterans (209,000) have submitted claims to the VA for disability. The backlog of unprocessed claims has reached 489,297, a number which is unfortunately increasing all of time. There are also currently 500,000 Compensation and Pension cases still pending. There are thousands of suits by soldiers and their families who are suffering from Depleted Uranium poisoning, but, because the military denies such a thing even exists, they are being left to suffer and die.

Forty percent of Vietnam Veterans are homeless. They went from the jungles of the war to the jungles of the street. Before President Bush decided to declare war, maybe he ought to have considered correcting this situation first. Questioning the war is equated with treason. And yet how are the warmongers supporting our troops? By eliminating their healthcare and slashing their pensions.

Even with an all volunteer army, and as misguided and brainwashed as those troops who are murdering innocents might be they are mostly young and mostly poor, which leaves them few options but to join the Big Green Machine they deserve to be treated with just financial, medical, and humanitarian benefits. Throughout American History, this has not been the case. We are a nation whose government treats its military veterans like common trash, and then lies to the public, telling them that we always care for our own.

From the inception of the United States of America, war veterans have been used, abused, uncompensated, and susceptible to lives of poor medical care and poverty. Congress’ treatment of Revolutionary War Veterans amply set this precedent. After the War of 1812, infirm, impoverished and aging veterans were not to be shunned as paupers.” This led to the first military pensions in 1818: A monthly stipend of $8 for regulars and $20 for officers, who had been wounded. By 1818, the pension was raised to include non-wounded veterans in need, orphans, and widows.

Today’s Veterans are treated with shoddy malfeasance: care is abysmal, their out-of-pocket expenses continue to increase, and many wartime illnesses are intentionally ignored by the government. Veterans who are wounded should be compensated. The government is treating our war heroes like 3rd rate citizens. Just because you don’t see the evil, does not mean it doesn’t exist.

George W. Bush is punishing Veterans, even as he sends young boys off to a foreign land for a reason he admits was a lie, err, incorrect. There are no WMDs in Iraq. The CIA has more ties to Al-Qaeda than did Saddam. To continue his spin, Bush is pushing pure democracy, a loser’s game, rather than cutting bait and bowing to the obvious.

The VA has had to resort to charging new veterans a yearly fee of $250. The very people being sent to fight are going to have to pay to treat the effects of it. In essence, Bush and Congress have increased the budget for war, yet cut the expenses granted for the soldiers when they return home.
This is leading to VA Hospitals closing down, up to 19,000 nurses losing their jobs, which makes 6.6 million outpatient visits impossible. Bush funding cuts will also prevent veterans from receiving their disability pensions. Forty percent of Vietnam Veterans are homeless. This is unacceptable!

Back to President Bush, his record in treating Veterans poorly is clear. Bush administration sought this year to cut $75 a month from the ‘imminent danger’ pay,” but was blocked. This year’s White House budget for Veterans Affairs cut $3 billion from VA hospitals. The administration also proposed levying a $250 annual charge on all Priority 8 veterans.

Until protests led to a policy change, the Bush administration also was charging injured GIs from Iraq $8 a day for food when they arrived for medical treatment at the Fort Stewart. Bush and Co. also closed down 19 commissaries which help the poorest soldiers; they defeated a bipartisan attempt to use a paltry $1.3 billion of the massive $87 billion Iraq war request; and they even denied Kevlar protection to 40,000 troops. One person commented that $9 billion of that $87B went to Israel, yet we can’t give $1.3B to Veterans?

Probably 97% or more of all combat veterans experience mental disorders due to post-traumatic stress. All combat vets should get some amount of pension or subsidy from taxation. While many honest, debilitated, and homeless Veterans fall through the cracks, millions who have never even been in the military or who have never seen combat are receiving veteran pensions.

The Bush Administration has dramatically increased military spending, while at the same time crunching costs for care of Veterans. Bush claims that a majority of payouts are to people who have no business receiving government subsidies. After Vietnam, Veteran assistance de-emphasizing combat status and time limits the agency became a welfare agency for poor veterans… Today the VA performs both functions, caring for veterans and for non-veterans… Although there are only 25 million veterans alive today, 70 million Americans are eligible for veteran’s benefits. Clearly, the mission of the VA has expanded beyond veterans.”

Would it not be obvious to see and treat combat veterans first, with full pay to combat veterans, first? THAT WOULD FORCE THE GOVERNMENT, THE MEDIA, AND US, THE PUBLIC, TO FACE DEPLETED URANIUM EXPOSURE, COMBAT VACINATION EXPERIMENTATION, & GULF WAR SYNDROME. Heck, they haven’t even owned totally up to AGENT ORANGE yet. Many Veterans who are positive they were exposed and are getting strange diseases are not treated as having been chemically damaged in Vietnam. Many people don’t understand that Veterans who were intentionally exposed to radiation are denied access to the system.

As an example, imagine two men during the Vietnam War. One is a poor farm boy, more often coloured than not, from Any-town, USA. The other is a wasp Harvard graduate whose father owns three businesses, one of which sells weapons to the government. The farm boy gets a one-way ticket to the Jungles. He does his nine-month tour. While there he sees several friends die from bullet wounds, suffers traumatic stress for which there is no diagnosis and so stays in the field, and upon receiving his third purple heart will be bed-ridden for a year and suffer excruciating pain for his entire life.

The Ivy Leaguer gets stationed in Germany, with a posh condo, a retirement plan, and trips to Amsterdam every weekend to smoke dope and screw whores. Twenty years later, both men are considered Veterans. The officer receives a multitude of government subsidies. The grunt is constantly shoved aside by the social doctors at the VA. The government claims that he wasn’t gassed with chemical agents, even though they can’t explain his strange tumors.

The government must treat combat soldiers with the highest level of care. The worst health care in the nation is given to our former soldiers. Studies are routinely denied that would ascertain the reasons for PTSD, Gulf War Syndrome, Agent Orange, other obvious radiation exposures, vaccine experimentation, and a plethora of other war-related illnesses.

The Federal Government has a vested interest in keeping this quiet. The Government is not the cover-upper; it is the instigator, the criminal, the traitor to our living war memorials, our Veterans.