Friday Pentagon News Dump Breaking On CNN

[Vinca]

Soldiers cremated in same facility as animal remains. Just being reported.

[babylonsister]

1. Just lovely. Did they say where? nt

[Vinca]

4. Dover, Delaware. They didn't say much, other than the Pentagon

was trying to get ahead of a story they expect to cause a furor.

[central scrutinizer]

9. gee ya think?

boy, that is honoring the troops

[babylonsister]

19. I'm wondering what they're doing cremating people to begin with;

wouldn't families be responsible for that, unless they have no family? Sounds very fishy to me.

[TexasObserver]

2. dammit

[goclark]

3. There are no words to describe the rage NT

[Cali_Democrat]

5. ...

[Webster Green]

6. Are they rendering them down for glue?

I hate these people! :mad:

[NotThisTime]

7. Why exactly?? Why did they do this?

[walldude]

17. One word... money.

It's cheap. Used to be an honored soldier got a casket, a burial, an Honor guard and a 21 gun salute. I've buried 3 soldiers in my family. You know what you get now? You get a cremation, you get the ashes in a plastic red box, you get 2 soldiers with a boom box playing taps and a folded flag. Thanks for your service, sorry for your loss.

And McCain again voted against increasing benefits for soldiers.

[jakem]

8. W>T>F?

[ampad]

10. Oh dear god

:puke:

[Vinca]

11. I just realized I put this in the wrong discussion forum.

Mods please feel free to move to nonprimary GD. Sorry. Haven't heard anything else on this and can't find anything on "the Google." It was Jamie McIntyre, the Pentagon correspondent reporting it.

[Spazito]

12. OMG There aren't words to adequately express how I feel

reading this.

[DangerousRhythm]

13. OMFG.

What the fuck is going on here, seriously? That's just.... I don't even know what to say.

[Faygo Kid]

14. I wish I could still be shocked by something the Bush cabal does.

But I can't anymore.

They're not through with us, either.

[GetTheRightVote]

15. This is horrible, what are they doing about this ?

[Arrowhead2k1]

16. Yet another sad reminder of why

we need CHANGE!

[nadinbrzezinski]

18. The ONLY justification for this... is

if they encountered something highly contagious or toxic

And yes, that is the ONLY justification for this

[Politicub]

20. OMG - that's nuts

And the poor families once they find out it was their son or daughter :cry:

[xynthee]

21. Is there any way the troops HAVEN'T been screwed over??

It's not enough for us to screw them over non-stop while they're alive! Let's screw 'em after they're dead, too!