Double-Speak: Praise the Troops, Then Pick Their Pockets

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/russ-baker/33983/double-speak-praise-the-troops-then-pick-their-pockets

Events keep on underlining the gap between the rhetoric and the reality. Nowhere is this more true than with the disparity between the way we talk about our soldiers and their service and the way they are actually treated. (And if we become indignant about this, we might also get a little indignant about the treatment of all Americans, who, each in their own way, serve their country.)

First, the rhetoric. In his State of the Union address, President Obama made some rousing statements, which were met with rare bipartisan applause:

Look to Iraq, where nearly 100,000 of our brave men and women have left with their heads held high. (Applause.)

...we must always remember that the Americans who have borne the greatest burden in this struggle are the men and women who serve our country. (Applause.)

More at the link --

[Hydra]

1. This sums it up, I think:

Sergeant Hurley has been on an odyssey through the legal system, with little hope of a happy ending -- indeed, the foreclosure that cost him his home may also cost him his marriage. "Brandie took this very badly," said Sergeant Hurley, 45, a plainspoken man who was disabled in Iraq and is now unemployed. "We're trying to piece it together."

A man sent to a war we should never have gotten into finds himself home disabled, unemployed, homeless and without even a voice on his side from these "Patriots" in Congress and the WH, past and present.

I'm glad we "Support our Troops" so well.