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THIS COMES UNDER THE HEADING: YOU'VE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME, RIGHT? Army's 'Debt Of Service' Leaves Vets Over a Barrel and in Up to Ears in Debt
Read more We Can Do Better Than This -- They Deserve Better I thought he said “82d Airborne,” but there’s as much chance I’m wrong as there is I’m right. Indeed, there’s as much chance he was never in the military, let alone the army, as there is he once served his country. Before we got any farther in the exchange security quite politely and gently led him from the park and the concert. Read more REMAINDER OF THE IVAW "JULY" BUS TOUR ENDS THIS WEEK IN NY! Given the undue ATTENTION that the Pentagon has given the IVAW Bus tour out of an OVERWHELMING FEAR that a few courageous Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans joining Generals that served in combat in Iraq SPEAKING OUT against the war or even just questioning the progress of IRAQINAM could have on getting more "thinking" troops to join in opposition to the war, the collective WE though it a decent idea to publish the rest of the IVAW bus tour schedule. Read more IVAW BUS TOUR HARASSED AT FORT BENNING, GA This UPDATE is related to several on-going BLOGS and is a call to action asking our readers to put pressure on Congress and the Pentagon to BACK OFF on the Gestapo-type harassment and intimidation of Veterans that served in Iraq and Afghanistan by either detaining them near military base like the prisinors at GTMO or worse threatening to downgrade Honorable Discharges or other disciplinary actions to IRR members. Read more IVAW MEMBERS DETAINED AT FORT JACKSON FOR WEARING IVAW T-SHIRTS This Blog was forwarded to me for reposting on my Blog courtesy of Iraq War Vet Sgt. Adam Kokesh of Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). This is part of the continuing saga on the extremes to which the NEOCONS FEAR the anti-IRAQINAM war movement, but especially Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans that have the courage to speak out. INTIMIDATION is the weapon of a weak minded, authoritarian, oppressive regime. CONGRESS, WE THE PEOPLE will not allow THIS ADMINISTRATION to do in America what it has done to Iraq, especially to OUR OWN VETERANS!!! Read more Absent the paradigm of America’s overwhelming penchant for blissful ignorance there could never have been an Iraq War, nor tax cuts the benefited disproportionately the super wealthy but the burden of which will fall heaviest on all our progeny and our veterans, nor policies that facilitated twisted notions of what defines torture and the right not to be spied upon by our government, and the entire host of disasters that are part and parcel of this horrible Bush era. Read more This Memorial Day Make the Press Cover Veterans' Issues Full Time Share your views with the press. Veterans and war are often reduced to two holidays, in the eyes of civilians and reporters: Veterans Day and Memorial Day. There are no reporters covering the Department of Veterans Affairs and veterans' issues full time. The failure to cover the human and financial consequences of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars must change now. Read more VA Corruption, Cronyism, and Incompetence My blog today points fingers at the specific people at VA responsible for VA’s crisis, and it offers some quick steps VCS supporters can take to fix these problems. Read more |
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