HOW DARE YOU

[luckyleftyme2]

How dare you call me un-patriotic;you who set at your mike daily spieling your hate and disgust for those of us who want to end this craziness in IRAQ?
I SERVED MY COUNTRY WITH PRIDE, I NEVER QUESTIONED MY SUPERIORS,AND I HAD A LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION FROM MY COMPANY COMMANDER THAT STAYED I SERVED ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY.
OF COURSE I WAS YOUNG AND EAGER TO PLEASE. IF I WERE IN IRAQ NOW I'M SURE I WOULD BE THAT GUY SPEAKING OUT ABOUT THOSE STUPID PATROLS,THE LACK OF ARMOR,THE LACK OF INTELLIGENCE THE LACK OF AIR COVER.
Now for you chicken hawks who crowd the airways,I'm proud to be called a liberal.i'm proud i'm an american and i'll invoke my right to "bitch and tell it like it is when I
think it's necessary.
what brought this on: i received an e-mail from my sister saying her favorite grandson was blown up in a humvee yesterday and on his way to germany for major operations. one side arm and leg mangled out look is dismal at best.
let me tell ya mr rush,mr hanni ty,ms laura his dad was a marine and he joined
up a year ago. he's 19 and he'll be crippled for life;and he's not the first relative
to be wounded in the line of duty.
So when you say liberal "I WANT YOU CHICKEN HAWK WARRIORS" TO SAY IT WITH RESPECT
CUZ WE DIDN'T ELECT THE MAN WHO FAILED IN EVERY ENDEAVOR HE HAS UNDERTAKEN!
AND I'LL KEEP ON BITCHING TILL A SOLUTION IS FOUND!
STAY THE COURSE IS A FAILURE!

[BOSSHOG]

1. YOU GO BOY!!!

I'm proud to second, third and fourth your sentiments which need nothing further added.

[goclark]

2. Speak and R nt

[raccoon]

3. Right on!

Those assholes, and many others, sit on their backsides and rant and call those who oppose the war "Traitors," but do they enlist, or encourage their kids/grandkids, etc. to enlist? Hell, no.

Sorry about what happened to your relative.

[CrazyOrangeCat]

4. Kicked!

. . . right in Limpball's vile, smirking mouth.

[bmbmd]

5. When will they ever learn?

When will they ever learn?

[barbtries]

6. i am so sorry about your nephew

this is insane. it needs to END

[intaglio]

7. Go for it - and hope your grandnephew isn't as badly hurt

as you fear. Take care

[Cabcere]

8. K&R for true patriots

such as yourself, your grandnephew, and the others who have done their duty in the less-than-optimal circumstances that plague this insane war. :patriot: My thoughts are with your young relative and others like him...I hope he will be okay. :hug:

[tom_paine]

9. I am no sorry for your great-nephew's? injuries

This war, being a totally unjust one and fought for the most awful of reasons, is what makes his pain and harm so very much worse.

War is always tragic, don't get me wrong but for those Yankees who died fighting traitorous Busheviks in the 1860s, for those who died in WWII fighting the Nazis (those friends of Prescott Bush, who laundereded their blood $$$ for them), those tragedies had a silver-lining because such evil was defeated and America continued to survive and prospered to evolve into the more perfect union the Founding Fathers dreamed of.

But this Iraq Invasion. It DOUBLES the tragedy.

I share your rage at these tyrants, gutless cowards themselves (as Tyrants usually are) and what they have done to 50,000+ Americans and at least 500,000 Iraqis...what they have done to our Constitution and our reputation and our morality and our economy and our basic liberty...

:grr: :mad: :grr: :grr: :grr: :mad:

[MethuenProgressive]

10. Your nephew, and your family, are in my prayers.

:dem:

[vickitulsa]

11. I know it must have been very painful for you to get this out,

but I'm proud of you for going ahead and letting your raw emotions show and ripping the chickenhawks in Washington for what may be their greatest sin of all -- sacrificing America's finest young people in the service of their profiteering wars.

I'm angry not only at them but at a great many of my fellow citizens who refuse to hold these criminals accountable and at the Congress which is still too slow to take the steps necessary to FIX THE VA and to end the insanity of wars for greed and profit.

What makes me even angrier is thinking about the way the medical care and therapy your great-nephew will get will deteriorate bit by bit as he goes from emergency care and surgery in Germany to longterm patient care stateside! We KNOW THIS HAPPENS, and we knew it before the Walter Reed story.

Anyone who ever cared enough to pay a few visits to any VA Hospital or Medical Center or Nursing Home, KNOWS FULL WELL that our veterans generally get extremely poor medical care -- including pisspoor psychological care!

It's been happening to ALL our vets since at least World War II. WE KNOW THIS! Old men in their 80's now are suffering and languishing in pathetic, uncaring environments in veterans nursing homes. They are ignored and left to lie in their own waste, helpless to prevent whatever happens to them in these houses of horror.

The Vietnam vets are rapidly approaching the same situation, as so many of them have aged prematurely due to the stresses on their physical bodies and their minds ever since "their" war. A great many of them know what awaits them in VA facilities and have shunned and avoided them for as long as they could.

The ones without family who fight the system to get decent care for their loved ones don't want to end up alongside their WWII and Korean vet predecessors in various VA facilities that are substandard to say the least! It's shameful, it's unforgivable, and it's going on right now, at this very moment, and every single day and night in this country!

Now we have two whole new generations of veterans from two Gulf wars coming home to horrendous and pathetic medical care -- and it's just WRONG, so very very WRONG!


I'm sorry, I am just so bitterly angry and got riled up all over again reading your justifiably irate OP, Luckyleftyme2. You already said it all but I know so many other horror stories too -- and I've been so angry about this situation with our veterans and the VA for so long, I just couldn't hold in my own anger anymore.

Right now I'm listening to Rep. Mike Ross, D-Ark, in the House talking about the Bu$h budget and pointing out specifically how we are treating our veterans under this Bu$h budget, and he's doing a FINE JOB OF IT. I'm very proud of him.

But in the end I won't be able -- and won't even try -- to get your post off my mind for many days, and indeed from now on, I know that. I have to avoid talking about this whole sick nightmare to keep my own PTSD in check. I'm not a vet but I know their psychological suffering to a large degree from my friendships with a great many of them and a personal diagnosis from my own childhood trauma.

Thank you again for having the courage to say all the things you said. I hope a lot of DUers read what you wrote and think about it long and hard. Then let's by God DO SOMETHING about the pathetic situation in our VA system!!!!

[WillyT]

12. K & R !!!

:kick:

[kdpeters]

13. For all your credentials, don't think I'm about to take any of their crap any more than you

You owe them nothing at all!! They aren't worth this much effort even to flip them off. You shouldn't have to put up with them. People who spout such empty slogans and mindless jingo are lower than pond sludge. It really upsets me that people like that wield such power to affect and upset people like yourself. They have no right. "How dare they?" indeed!! "Who the hell do they think they are?" is what I want to know. Without a minimum level of respect, they should receive none from us. I will NOT defend myself against such bullshit or justify myself to anyone. Nor should you.

Peace to you.

[jarnocan]

14. thank you and best wishes!!! nt

[Tsiyu]

15. K & R

So sorry about your grandnephew and here's hoping to a successful recovery. :thumbsup:

White hot rage....

If people aren't feeling it by now, they are heavily medicated.

Thanks for all you've done for this country and thank you for posting this pause for reality.


:patriot:

[Mad_Dem_X]

16. God Bless You!

:patriot: :hug: