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President's Approval Rating Inches Up, But Most Americans Still Pessimistic About Iraq
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- Twenty-two years active and twenty years as a vet has given me time to watch a lot what has happened over the years. Men, do you remember the $36 pay we got twice a month? Pay scales have adjusted, as have annual budgets. Some wheels have gotten more grease at times, but overall, I think we have had a fair cut. Resources for the VA aren't always applied in the right manner, but don't blame this or any particular administration for what we, ourselves, have let occur.
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- We Veterans need to keep asking the question Max Cleland gave Wolf Blitzer, when asked about the remarks Cheney gave concerning our attempts to bring this "meatgrinder of a war" to a close, as something worse than treason; " Where The Hell Were YOU,During Vietnam??"
Check it out on CNN'S " Wolfie Show, from yesterday, 03/12/2007, and pass it on!!!!! - Reply to this comment
- I'm really amazed that anyone is at all surprised with these "revelations".
Cuts in Veteran's funding have been the topic of stories during almost every budget plan this heartless and greedy administration has put forth, and promptly ok'd by the rubber stamp Republican congress.. where was all the protest then.?
The military and Neocon Republicans discard disabled vets like so much trash.. No wonder the military is having a hard time recruiting.. - Reply to this comment
- Bush's approval ratings are inching up due to flip-flopping Republicans. Pity those who try to buck their own political party, the threats get pretty ugly when one of the its own members steps off the GOP line.
"The increase is due almost entirely to an uptick in approval among Republicans" - Reply to this comment
- GET SOME BALLS FAT BOYS!
HERE ARE THE SENATORS UP FOR REELECTION IN 08 WRITE THEM OR QUIT COMPLAINING! ASK THEM WHO IS PAYING THEIR SALARIES? 50 YEARS OF SACRIFICE IS ENOUGH! We cannot want peace in the Middle East more than those who live there! The NEOCONS are bragging in their advertisements read below.
http://www.aipac.org/forms/join_aipacClubs.htm
Alexander, Lamar- (R - TN)
Allard, Wayne- (R - CO)
Baucus, Max- (D - MT)
Biden, Joseph R., Jr.- (D - DE)
Chambliss, Saxby- (R - GA)
Cochran, Thad- (R - MS)
Coleman, Norm- (R - MN)
Collins, Susan M.- (R - ME)
Cornyn, John- (R - TX)
Craig, Larry E.- (R - ID)
Dole, Elizabeth- (R - NC)
Durbin, Richard- (D - IL)
Enzi, Michael B.- (R - WY)
Graham, Lindsey- (R - SC)
Hagel, Chuck- (R - NE)
Harkin, Tom- (D - IA)
Inhofe, James M.- (R - OK)
Johnson, Tim- (D - SD)
Kerry, John F.- (D - MA)
Landrieu, Mary L.- (D - LA)
Lautenberg, Frank R.- (D - NJ)
Levin, Carl- (D - MI)
McConnell, Mitch- (R - KY)
Pryor, Mark L.- (D - AR)
Reed, Jack- (D - RI)
Roberts, Pat- (R - KS)
Rockefeller, John D., IV- (D - WV)
Sessions, Jeff- (R - AL)
Smith, Gordon H.- (R - OR)
Stevens, Ted- (R - AK)
Sununu, John E.- (R - NH)
Warner, John- (R - VA)
If you think Americas sacrifice is worth it contact your ELECTED OFFICIAL and tell them http://www.visi.com/juan/congress/
The House Speakers email address: AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov - Reply to this comment
- For all those who think that veteran health care will suddenly change due to this onslaught of publicity and subsequent hand-wringing and finger pointing, don't get your hopes up.
Congress will throw money at the problem, conduct useless dog & pony show hearings, and pass some regulations to appease the public.
After which, it will return to "business as usual" and veterans' health care funding will be cut as soon as the media spotlight shines elsewhere.
The US has been down this road more than once before and the results are always the same. Living hell for those brave young men and women who really believed the nonsense they were told before they became human vegetables, discarded and ignored once they become a taxpayer liability. - Reply to this comment
- There have been a series of articles describing poisioning of our troops by Depleted Uranium.
Will this administration support testing and care for those affected, or will they lie and deny.
Your thoughts?
Posted by Greco99 at 02:26 AM : Mar 13, 2007
Search on "Agent Orange" and you should quickly discover how the US government responds to complaints and allegations about harm caused to US soldiers and others by chemical agents used by the US military. - Reply to this comment
- There have been a series of articles describing poisioning of our troops by Depleted Uranium.
Will this administration support testing and care for those affected, or will they lie and deny.
Your thoughts? - Reply to this comment
- Personally, I think Georgie created this monster and now it's time to step up to the plate and finally atone himself and take care of these Vets....
sad to say he won't....
Posted by Reel-Crazy at 05:49 PM : Mar 12, 2007
No bro, you're almost right. What it's time for is another Hoover town (look it up right wing as*sholes). What it's time for is a Vet's march on Washington demanding change. And I don't just mean vets of this insane war in Iraq, but vets of all wars who are still alive. How long are we going to put up with some governments scr*ewing our brothers over? Many of us are (luckily) still able to walk (OK so I'm a bit older then I'd lie), but even if those who can't want to do it then we can help them. What the hell we helped our bro's when they needed us before, why not NOW? It's time for vets to tell this as*shole in the White House that he does NOT speak for us! - Reply to this comment
- Of course he doesn't do enough for vets because he's not really one. All he did was fly a bar stool for a few years in the Texas Air Guard. He hasn't the slightest concept of what it means to be a veteran or he wouldn't be sending our troops off to die in Iraq for the profit of him and his friends. That is all this war is, a for profit criminal enterprise with Bush and Cheney as the lead criminals. He cares no more about the troops then a master cares about his slaves. He is more then happy to spill their blood, there or here, for profit. He is NOT an American.
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- He's done more than I would expect of him.. I'm surprised he hasn't closed some hospitials to use the land for some oil pumps.
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- Seems many Americans are dumb as rocks. That Bu$h has an approval rating at this time in history is appalling. Just goes to show you, P.T.Barnum was absolutely right.
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- I'm confused. I can't understand it. Maybe you can.
I'm trying to get all this political stuff straightened out in my head.
Lemme see; have I got this straight?
Clinton awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Yugoslavia - good...
Bush awards Halliburton no-bid contract in Iraq - bad...
Clinton spends 77 billion on war in Serbia - good...
Bush spends 87 billion in Iraq - bad...
Clinton imposes regime change in Serbia - good...
Bush imposes regime change in Iraq - bad...
Clinton bombs Christian Serbs on behalf of Muslim Albanian terrorists -good...
Bush liberates 25 million from a genocidal dictator - bad...
Clinton bombs Chinese embassy - good...
Bush bombs terrorist camps - bad... - Reply to this comment
- How can 34% of Americans approve of Bush. Are they that asleep that they can't see through the NeoCon fake patriotism, fake "support the troops" slogans, fake WMD intelligence, fake color-coded terror alerts....
Cheney and Bush have been an unmitigated DISASTER for America. Unless you are already super wealthy with no moral conviction (in which case Bush has made you even more filthy rich), you should be demanding that Cheney and Bush do JAIL TIME.
Lying us into needless, horrific War with their fake "intelligence sources". Using troops as cannon fodder and quietly dumping the returning maimed and brain damaged vets into substandard care. "We don't torture (wink, wink)". Trying to gut our social security. Running up massive national debt. 'Bankruptcy' laws written by the credit card corporations. Mega-billions of our tax dollars going to Oil Corporation subsidies (while they are gorging on record profits!!). FBI admits to widespread domestic surveillience without warrents.
When will the Cheney Bush NIGHTMARE END!! - Reply to this comment
- "Three out of four %u2014 76 percent of %u2014 Americans do not think the Bush administration has done enough to care for these veterans. A majority of Republicans agree with all Americans overall on this issue."
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- This is typical of CBS too. Looking at the numbers pertaining to the president, you will see that his approval has climbed 5 points in a month (granted it was low) but none the less going up 5 points is a lot in a month. His numbers are also going up in his party AND the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. This is kind of puzzling when you see the headline as BUSH NOT DOING ENOUGH as the front on the story. This site is a liberal tissue box though so that is just liberal tears under the pillow.
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- Neo-Con-Artists:
"Three out of four %u2014 76 percent of %u2014 Americans do not think the Bush administration has done enough to care for these veterans. A majority of Republicans agree with all Americans overall on this issue."
Enough Said - Reply to this comment
- Used false pretenses to justify an invasion of Iraq. By the way does anyone know if they ever found any WMD%u2019s?
Posted by The74blaster at 10:43 PM : Mar 12, 2007
"I will be voting to give the president of the United States the authority to use force - if necessary - to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security." -- John F. Kerry, Oct 2002 - Reply to this comment
- "I agree completely. We should look at his record. Unemployment at a steady low rate, The economy has been steady if not slowly growing over the last 5 years. No terrorist attacks on this country since 9/11. Iraq is now under democratic control and Hussein is in the dirt. 75% of the FBI's 50 most wanted list caught.
Yep....let's let the record speak for itself
Posted by cbville72 at 10:18 PM : Mar 12, 2007
LOL Thanks for the laugh - Reply to this comment
I agree completely. We should look at his record. Unemployment at a steady low rate, The economy has been steady if not slowly growing over the last 5 years. No terrorist attacks on this country since 9/11. Iraq is now under democratic control and Hussein is in the dirt. 75% of the FBI's 50 most wanted list caught.
Yep....let's let the record speak for itself...
You forgot to include the following.
Inherited a 234 Billion federal budget surplus from Clinton and converted it into an admitted 400 billion deficit. Who knows but if we include entitlements is probably closer to 800 billion.
Used false pretenses to justify an invasion of Iraq. By the way does anyone know if they ever found any WMD%u2019s?
How successful is the no child left behind act?
What about the federal response to Hurricane Katrina?
How much has he done preserve social security?
I agree...lets let Bushs track record do the talking.
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