17 Aug 2007
Tawny
Please suggest how we can help our aunt!She has PTSD and is in therapy at VA.She started her claim 4-5 years ago.EAch time she calls Washington appeals they say they have sent her to a rater but she calls back they say OOPS we had to sent to ST.Louis for more of your file.They told her they sent for her personnel file months ago and recieved it.Now it has changed back to waiting on St.Louis.It seems this is a stalling tactic.My aunt is not employable right now she has no income.Our family has been providing for her for several years.We have housed her and fed her and other nessescites.It has been overwhelming to experience this entire claims process with her.She needs help she is disable and cannot work in the field she was trained in for years.Something is very wrong with this process to continue to hang my aunt up with the tactics used.The military changed her in a way that she is disable and deserves compensation.Hang in there veterans god has to move on their (VA) minds to stop delaying these needed benifits.Amen

2 Apr 2007
Don Albares Jr - View my profile
When I volunteered for service in the United States Army many years ago, I gave up many freedoms for the discipline of life as a soldier. Uncertain deployments of indeterminate duration, stresses upon my family life and grave risk to my personal safety. My training schedule was brutal and being called for ERDEs at Ft Bragg and conducting brief-backs for missions which might or might not occur was part of the deal. I did all this and accepted that life with only one unwritten condition - FAITH. Faith that the national command leadership would be prudent, wise and above all honest when making decisions which would place me and my fellow team members in harms' way. This administration has been none of these. The lives of my former comrades have been squandered in a conflict which cannot be won militarily - that is not an opinion, it is a historical fact. Every day since the threat of invasion of Iraq became public, I have railed against it as a fool's errand, and wept as all I predicted has come to pass. This stubborn clinging to a ghost of victory on another man's land is the only surprise to me. Why must anyone continue to sacrifice the only noble lifes involved just to say, "I stayed the course". This course is disasterous. Only in our leaving Iraq can that people begin their long road to healing. Our continued presence achieves only one thing: more body bags filled with our precious sons, daughters, brothers and sisters, mothers and fathers. There is no victory to be had...only death and destruction and ruined bodies and disturbed minds. The death toll among the Iraqi people is even more catastrophic, and all for what? Weapons which were never there. A connection to Al-Queda that never was. One bully of a dictator who committed many of his crimes while he was our flavor of the month. This is not a war defending America. This is a war defending and promoting big business' right to flourish on someone else's land. Just as we did in Central America - making the world safe for corporate America...at the expense of our most precious blood, and worse, our souls.

2 Apr 2007
John J Kline
Good, I have been in Eiblow, working with Delaware Valley Veterans For America, and Veterans For Peace. Althrough we have a local and intermix problem with VFP National ( discussion for another day).

Are you still working with or having any connections with Veterans For America? Thanks.

25 Feb 2006
Quentin Deming
The 2004 article in Lancet was the most scientific effort to learn the numbers of Iraqui civilians who have been killed (mostly by air power). It was over 100,000. That was 18 months ago and the killing goes on. Those figures do not include the maimed. I would ask the President how one can help people by killing them and how we can make them our friends this way.

25 Feb 2006
TC
Dear George: Once you said you were a compassionate conservative. I have no idea what that is? Apparently, it has nothing to do with helping the citizens of this Country who are not millionaires or contributors to your cause. If Jesus ever contacts you someday while you are praying, I have asked him to remind you of some of his basic principles, such as, all those things he says in the beatitudes. Perhaps it would be a good idea to take five billion dollars from your war budget and put it in the VA budget. It sure would be a great way to remember all those brave young souls that gave their lives for your noble cause in the BUSH WARS. Maybe for once we could head off the all the shattered lives that will come from war's aftermath, but of course you wouldn't know anything about that since the Viet Cong never did reach Texas. Good Luck,Mr President and keep your head down around the VIce president because you know once a person has tasted blood he wants more. TC

25 Feb 2006
Carroll ex USAF
see this weeks expose of the totire policy- assisted and twisted by LAWYERS (and i am one). Fully documented. read the memo-- its a PDF. http://www.newyorker.com/images/pdfs/moramemo.pdf wwww.newyorker.com lead article Mora's Notes we have sold our souls. WE (ourleaders not the troops) are the Bad Guys. This is MUCH worse than My Lai-- this is POLICY from POTUS.

25 Feb 2006
Jack Cormode
It is time to admit that those around you ('Yes-persons') have not served you well. There are a number of responsible experts and other experienced people who disagree with you on Iraq and have valuable contributions to make. Failure to listen to these dissenters will simply continue the death toll of American troops. Ask these people what to do, especially how to get out of Iraq while we still have a viable military force.

25 Feb 2006
susie kinzie
i appreciate your wanting to hear from your members, i wish the democratic party had as much faith in theirs. yes, full funding for the va, and better tracking of the vets, so there aren't the terrible gaps we've heard about. a disavowal of mistreatment of people in our custody. a clear statement of what will be necessary for troop withdrawal ( not'' we'll stand down, as they stand up'' WTF? ) and last, to ask us to pay for this war, by repealing the tax cuts. (hope springs eternal, right? ) sincerely, susie

24 Feb 2006
lou
i think this president must get his head out of his ass and get the hell out of iraq before he spends all our money on this outrages war.

24 Feb 2006
Charley
I would ask him how he feels now about his arrogant, "Bring 'en on" attitude. He is one step away from Iranian troops in large numbers, flooding across the border and simply running over the US and Iraquie (Such as they are) troop. Then I would ask him when he plans on attending even one funeral of our Brothers and Sisters who have sacrificed so much for so little. Removed from compliance the UCMJ, I'd bet my military pension, that thousands of present military personnel would speak out against this so called war, against the prisoner abuse of prisoners, and for a rapid withdrawl of our troops from Iraq. John Murtha has it right, and it become more apparent every, and with every death of one of our own....

24 Feb 2006
Charley
My previous post contained an error. I meant to say, "Against prisioner abuse by US military and cicvilian personnel", not prisoner abuse by prisoners.

24 Feb 2006
Marian Cruz
Stop the killing in Iraq. The billions of dollars that have been spent need to be re directed to fund the many programs that benefit seniors, children, the enviornment, failing infrastucture, etc.

24 Feb 2006
WrestlingCoach
Ask the idiot..er... President why it is that the military enlisteds always the first to take it on the chin when budgets need to be cut to donate more money to the rich? And, why did he appoint Buyer to help cut the VA?

24 Feb 2006
Colleen Holmes
We are looking in the wrong direction. "9/11 Commission Report Omissions and Distortions" by David Ray Griffin seems to say it all...If we can get all the groups together that are looking at this, we could unravel this whole issue. It's all linked to the 9/11 issues. If that was resolved, the rest would unravel and MANY people would finally be behind bars.