Pelosi: 'President's Words Honoring Veterans Ring Hollow'

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http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=51960

Pelosi: 'President's Words Honoring Veterans Ring Hollow'

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush's speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Salt Lake City:

"I join President Bush in honoring those Americans we properly call our heroes - America's veterans. Unfortunately, the President's words honoring veterans ring hollow when his actions do not back them up.

"President Bush and Republicans in Congress have broken the promises our veterans receive when they sign up as soldiers to defend our nation. Republicans have underfunded veterans' health care even as waiting lists for soldiers returning from Iraq grow, proposed to increase financial burdens on veterans, and continued to bar entire groups of veterans, including combat veterans, from even entering the VA health care system. The President and Republicans in Congress have also opposed access to TRICARE for National Guard and reservists, and ending the Disabled Veterans' Tax.

"Our soldiers, our veterans, and our military families have earned much better than this. And our nation is better than one that would break its promises once a solider returns home. Rather than offer unsupported rhetoric to the nation's service members, veterans, and military families, the President must change course and begin to match his words with action. The men and women of the armed forces - past, present and future - deserve nothing less.

[ellenfl]

1. good job, nancy! thanks for posting this. eom

[Orion The Hunter]

2. Once again, nice work Pelosi

Always nice to highlight the hypocrisy of the Republicans and how they "honor" American troops.

[msgadget]

3. Good one,

she calls him a hypocrite without being 'unpatriotic' and blasting the war itself.