How Bush supports the troops

[RBHam]

US Bars Torture Settlement,
To Ex-POWs' Dismay

By Miles Benson
Newhouse News Service
10-30-3

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is quietly piling up victories in a legal battle to block payments to 17 U.S. combat veterans who were captured and tortured in the first Gulf War and won a suit against Iraq for nearly a billion dollars.

The former POWs -- whipped, beaten, burned, electrically shocked and starved by their Iraqi captors in 1991 -- say they are baffled by the administration's refusal to let them collect any of the assets of Iraq now under U.S. control, and by the Justice Department's efforts to overturn a federal court decision upholding their claims to compensation.

"I don't understand why they want to see this case go away," said Lt. Col. Dave Storr of Spokane, Wash., one of the POWs who today is an airline pilot and serves in the Air National Guard.

More...

http://www.rense.com/general43/USbarstorturesettlement.htm

[Richardo]

1. God I want to hear McCain, Clelland, and Clark on this...

POS chickenhawk administration...

[proud patriot]

2. No Shit

:grr:

[RummyTheDummy]

3. McCain won't say anything.........

He was warned long ago to keep his mouth shut if he wants to keep his life and those of his family.

[Military Brat]

4. Watch the press jump all over this one

Yeah, right.

[CGRetiree]

5. Sounds like the Republican "norm" to me

Been my experience that, while Republican Presidents & Republican run Congress's tout how much the support the military and try to blame Democrats for not doing so, it's been a standard practice to support only the military "machine", the hardware and not the troops whether they be active duty, retired or reservists.

Look at what Dubya did within less than 3 months after taking the oath of office: He raised the medication co-pay for veterans using VA Medical Services from only $2 per script & refill to $7 each.

Dubya even stated during his politically driven visit to the aircraft carrier that his way of supporting the troops was to provide better training and better equipment & weapons. What about the welfare of the troops and their families?!?! Sure it's an all volunteer military service now but should not our government support our troops in the areas of pay and medical benefits as much as they do weapons programs?

CGRetiree

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Hi CGRetiree! Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Kanary]

7. Along the same lines...

Being too new here to be "trustworthy", I can't post a new message...sigh... so, pleeez excuse my rudeness to piggyback this on yours...

Carson Soldier Faces Charge of Cowardice
The soldier said he experienced a “panic attack” after seeing the mangled body of an Iraqi man and told his superior he was heading for a “nervous breakdown.”
~~snippity do dah~~
Instead of help, Porgany said, one of his superiors told him to “get his head out of his ass and get with the program.”

An Army psychologist in Iraq said Porgany had a normal reaction to seeing the body and recommended rest and then a return to duty, the soldier said.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1030-12.htm
I couldn't see to connect to the original article, but found it on this link.

So much for "support our troops"... Grrrr....

Kanary

[Tyler Durden]

8. Hey you! That money is HALLIBURTON'S...

...how DARE you try and cheat them or the Iraqi administrators we are paying $40,000 a month to out of ONE PENNY of their rightful earnings.

You Traitorous, Disloyal FUCK.

[Zuni]

11. Iraq is now Halliburton

that is it's new name. That is who runs the country now.

[jmags]

9. Here's another

Unfortunately, I can't link directly to it. Go here
http://www.centerforamericanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?cid={E9245FE4-9A2B-43C7-A521-5D6FF2E06E03}&bin_id={BF48903A-6084-4326-B825-99FDB2AD619F}

Then click on Press Backgrounders Archive, then click on Claim Vs Fact: Treatment of Troops at a Time of War

[Zuni]

10. GOP will bring this up when it is to their advantage

but will try to kill it if it is inconvieniant. Reminds me of the WWII POWs who did slave labor and were tortured and treated in the most vile manner being not allowed to sue Japanese companies that used them, like Mitsubishi.