the way our vets are treated. Eight years of Bush/Cheney & nothing for our vets but neglect. Bush & Cheney are both "chickenhawks" so their disrespect is hardly surprising.

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History, not the kind taught in our school systems but history of the letters, journals and writings of the real American men and women, shows that our government has NEVER supported or cared for the veterans of any American war. Those New Americans that fought in the Revolution were paid with script, bought at pennies on the dollar by the upper-class land owner class,(those same ones that paid to get out of fighting) then later when the USA became solvent enough to paid the script they cashed them in for full value (fair, you decide) – over 5,000 men died in Cuba in 1857 (?) and only 357 or so from battle the rest from disease, and from Armmour meat that was full of food poison (proof is available that this meat was rejected by Britain prior to being sold to the US military, wonder who got rich on the death of these men); WWI veterans starved, lost their homes, and were chased out of Washington during their peaceful protest by the Army of the USA. Last year when we all got our tax rebates, why was this money not used to but the state of the art helmets for our soldiers??? Is this behavior by our government really what Americans who are sending their children off to war want to continue to support? Although in the past 60 years more benefits have been provided by our government there is never enough medical care, military pay, or adequate housing that is being provided for those who serve; but then look how we pay and support our fire and police personnel. Americans needs to perhaps reevaluate their priorities??

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History, not the kind taught in our school systems but history of the letters, journals and writings of the real American men and women, shows that our government has NEVER supported or cared for the veterans of any American war. Those New Americans that fought in the Revolution were paid with script, bought at pennies on the dollar by the upper-class land owner class,(those same ones that paid to get out of fighting) then later when the USA became solvent enough to paid the script they cashed them in for full value (fair, you decide) – over 5,000 men died in Cuba in 1857 (?) and only 357 or so from battle the rest from disease, and from Armmour meat that was full of food poison (proof is available that this meat was rejected by Britain prior to being sold to the US military, wonder who got rich on the death of these men); WWI veterans starved, lost their homes, and were chased out of Washington during their peaceful protest by the Army of the USA. Last year when we all got our tax rebates, why was this money not used to but the state of the art helmets for our soldiers??? Is this behavior by our government really what Americans who are sending their children off to war want to continue to support? Although in the past 60 years more benefits have been provided by our government there is never enough medical care, military pay, or adequate housing that is being provided for those who serve; but then look how we pay and support our fire and police personnel. Americans needs to perhaps reevaluate their priorities??

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The Veterins most deserving of respectd are the ones that refused to report for deployment once they realised that the US wars of aggression on the Middle East are in fact crimes against humanity that were based entirely on lies and manipulations of intelligence. I feel for the veterins only because they believe the lies they have been told by their criminal leadership at the top. The best first thing we should do is bring our troops home so that there would not be any more death and injury simply to enrich our elite.

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When do you expect to come up with a plan to help our veterans and their families. The subject has been dicussed to death and nothing much is being done. This can't wait. ANNA

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...the best support you can give our troops is to not send them into unnecessary wars, give them no direction as to what is torture and putting them into positions of behaving as war criminals, because their leaders condone such behavior.

Keeping prisoners without habeas corpus, and no due process is also not doing them any favors.

In addition keeping them in Iraq and Afghanistan for unwarranted purposes is not giving them support.

Talk is cheap Bam Bam, and that is all you do. Not only that, you are a cowardly hypocrite that talks out of both ends of your body.

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with my late 88 year old ww2 vet father. The care he got from the staff was caring and compassionate. I couldn't have asked for better. The most annoying thing was upon entering the hospital, one had to pass a very large photo of President G.W. Bush, with what seemed like the classic Bush snear on his ugly face. I always longed to bring a large black marker with me, but never did of course.

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He talked about what we must remember as milestones of the survival of our nation. He defined our nation. He defined what it is to be remembered by those who are members of our nation. He identified himself as the boss. He refered to 9/11. In that context and in reference to our greatness, he mentioned 3 examples........the Revolutionary war, D day and the war between the North and South. "It's about the early battles of 1851 when a Union victory was anything but certain" To a Southerner, this is inflammatory. Of all the examples to give, when the Dept of Home Land Security is giving instructions to law enforcement about homegrown terrorist attitudes, why fan the flames? Why this example now? On Memorial Day. Who writes these things?

He said he will cut out SOME of the waste, saving tens of billions of dollars in defense. How many tens of billions of dollars are still acceptable to waste of tax payer money? Where did the wasted tens of billions go? The presedent is .......it dosn't matter.Defence contractors love this.
He said he is building an elaborate veterans center. "The largest funding increase in 3 decades". This, it is safe to assume, is for preparing and arming those he will send into "the theater of war". Not a hospital or facility for veterans or their families, but one for beurocratic war mongers to plan more wars. Wars happening, or will happen in the future. With his full and welcoming acceptence of the inevitability of wars.

He had the nerve to say that returning veterans are the reason for laying the foundations of a new economy. He said quality health care will be expanded to a half million more vets. Does this mean some still won't get quality health care? What have that half million been getting before now? What will the rest get?
Maybe this means there will be a half million new vets returning from wars in the future. That must be it. The term quality is therefor synonomous with depleted uranium effects being said by these quality establisments to be stress related. My baby has 2 heads. Must be stress.

He talks of wars being fought on our behalf. Is that including Iraq? Who is the 'our' he talks about? The new american public mindset which accepts war in Iraq because their new improved president says it's OK? What is that war for? 5000 of ours dead. Thousands dismembered. Thousands more in shock. That's just ours. No comment on WMD's being our original cause to unlawfuly invade Iraq. We have already forgotton the hundreds of thousands dead from sanctions.
"What makes all we are and all we aspire to be possible are the sacrifices of an unbroken line of americans..... This sounds to me a little 1933, or should I say 1984.
"Today is a day to celebrate". Really?

As far as the rest of the speech is concerned, it is absolutely meaningless. It has as much meaning as HOPE or CHANGE when spoken in no context.This speech was assembled sentence by sentence.When taken apart the same way there is nothing there. This is possibly one of the most cleverly shallow speeches I have ever heard. Well.....almost.

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Obama talked about what we must remember as milestones of the survival of our nation. He defined our nation. He defined what it is to be remembered by those who are members of our nation. He identified himself as the boss. He refered to 9/11. In that context and in reference to our greatness, he mentioned 3 examples........the Revolutionary war, D day and the war between the North and South. "It's about the early battles of 1851 when a Union victory was anything but certain" To a Southerner, this is inflammatory. Of all the examples to give, when the Dept of Home Land Security is giving instructions to law enforcement about homegrown terrorist attitudes, why fan the flames? Why this example now? On Memorial Day. Who writes these things?

He said he will cut out SOME of the waste, saving tens of billions of dollars in defense. How many tens of billions of dollars are still acceptable to waste of tax payer money? Where did the wasted tens of billions go? The presedent is .......it dosn't matter.Defence contractors love this.
He said he is building an elaborate veterans center. "The largest funding increase in 3 decades". This, it is safe to assume, is for preparing and arming those he will send into "the theater of war". Not a hospital or facility for veterans or their families, but one for beurocratic war mongers to plan more wars. Wars happening, or will happen in the future. With his full and welcoming acceptence of the inevitability of wars.

He had the nerve to say that returning veterans are the reason for laying the foundations of a new economy. He said quality health care will be expanded to a half million more vets. Does this mean some still won't get quality health care? What have that half million been getting before now? What will the rest get?
Maybe this means there will be a half million new vets returning from wars in the future. That must be it. The term quality is therefor synonomous with depleted uranium effects being said by these quality establisments to be stress related. My baby has 2 heads. Must be stress.

He talks of wars being fought on our behalf. Is that including Iraq? Who is the 'our' he talks about? The new american public mindset which accepts war in Iraq because their new improved president says it's OK? What is that war for? 5000 of ours dead. Thousands dismembered. Thousands more in shock. That's just ours. No comment on WMD's being our original cause to unlawfuly invade Iraq. We have already forgotton the hundreds of thousands dead from sanctions.
"What makes all we are and all we aspire to be possible are the sacrifices of an unbroken line of americans..... This sounds to me a little 1933, or should I say 1984.
"Today is a day to celebrate". Really?

As far as the rest of the speech is concerned, it is absolutely meaningless. It has as much meaning as HOPE or CHANGE when spoken in no context.This speech was assembled sentence by sentence.When taken apart the same way there is nothing there. This is possibly one of the most cleverly shallow speeches I have ever heard. Well.....almost.

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On the FOURTH OF JULY,VETERANS DAY, MEMORIAL DAY and FLAG DAY, it is the fashion to trot out everyone who ever served in the military and parade them around...

AND PRETTY SPEECHES ARE MADE.

And like the toy soldiers who served at the convenience of the elites to protect THEIR way of life, they put them back in the toy box for another holiday or whenever they want to run for office and need a convenient "patriotic" backdrop.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THE DISABLED VETERANS WHO HAVE BEEN KICKED TO THE CURB AND ARE NOT GETTING THE MEDICAL CARE, EDUCATION AND READJUSTMENT TO CIVILIAN LIFE THEY WERE PROMISED.
But Native Americans KNOW that the US government does NOT keep its word unless it enriches cronies and friends and big campaign contributors...
TODAY IS A DAY TO TALK ABOUT HOW GLORIOUS AND WONDERFUL OUR MILITARY STRENGTH IS!
What they don't tell you about is what happens to you if you get hurt or killed on the job... and the people you leave behind!

OBAMA NEEDS TO TALK LESS AND DO MORE!
And not just for veterans either...

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