Another Reason *ush Must Go This Is Beyond Awful PLEASE READ

[PennyMan]

Here Is Something I Just Heard On The News. A Serviceman Had His Forearm Shot Off In Iraq. Instead Of Getting $4400 For Back Pay He Got A Bill From The Government For $6000 For Medical Transportation. And Get This For Leaving His Equipment In The Field After He Was Wounded.They Said This Is Not An Isolated Case.

* Has Got To Go

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. A Guardsman lost both legs

and severely injured his arm and has to pay the NG back for his bonus at enlistment since he cannot complete his commitment. No lie. I got this from the Purple Hearts book thread.

[Pirate Smile]

3. Have they done this kind of crap in the past or is it new? It just seems

absolutely insane.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

5. I think it is new

don't recall this garbage happening during Viet Nam.

[Pirate Smile]

13. That is what I thought.

[seito]

2. O.M.G.

Well, at least they will see all those nice magnetic ribbons when they get home. :grr:

[patdem]

6. Those nice $9.99 magnetic ribbons made in China. Do not leave out the

details...the DEVIL is in the details! :grr:

[mulethree]

4. There were headlines like that a few weeks back

The guy's congresmen got the army to drop it, helped the guy get home and promised to get the army to look into and fix similar problems.

http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2004/12/10/dcloriaw.htm

Schumer said. "The first thing is to help him, and then to see if it is happening to anybody else."

[seito]

11. At the grassroots level, we need to force these congressmen

to SUPPORT THESE TROOPS, or expose them for what they have failed to do.

This sh*t makes me so angry :grr:

Where is the humanity??????

[brainshrub]

7. It's called "Free Market Warfare"

The contractors need their money to.

[Quakerfriend]

8. Sooooo pitiful and downright unAmerican!

We have a cousin who recently returned from Iraq and I asked him if the soldiers wore earplugs to protect their hearing.....He said, only if they payed for them themselves! Apparently, they have to pay for their uniforms, as well.

[GetTheRightVote]

9. This is a joke when soldiers of war are treated so poorly,

I hate this adminstration for there dirty work. They are truly evil people.

:grr:

[progressoid]

10. That's just the beginning - he's going to get repeatedly screwed by

these so-called patriots in charge today. Awful is an understatement.

Even my Dad's VFW (which is very GOP) is starting to see how FUBAR this war and administration is.

[koopie57]

14. I feel sad for the vets from WWII and that era

They are so loyal and faithful to our country. I watch their emotions during a memorial day ceremony or similar event and see tears flowing down their cheeks. There is something that is awesome and overwhelming to them and now that it is sinking in, how this administration has let down our present military, it must be very difficult to deal with this.

edit: This is really sick, but it occured to me today while walking by our department that teaches people how to use their new arms, legs, etc. that a good stock to get into would be a company that makes prostetics (? limbs). How would I go about finding people who have invested in this type of thing? It would be curious I think.

[peacetalksforall]

12. Rumsfeld and friends ooze inhumanity.

By the way does anyone know if the millions and millions of money unaccounted for at the DOD have been found?

Is Dov back at his corporation making remote control tools for aircraft manipulation?

[tsuki]

15. Where the f*ck is the media? Obviously stroking themselves with

a loopah crying about Happy Holidays.

[fooj]

16. one wonders

how they sleep at night...they are shameless, self-serving SOB's with no regard for anyone but themselves! Perhaps this admin should honor the soldiers by truly helping them instead of "showboating" for the inauguration! Disgusting!!!!! :puke: