It's shocking to observe that the U.S. behaves like a stepmother with those who have made the ultimate sacrifice. I wonder why young people keep on enlisting.

And I wonder why the American people continue to support Bush and the Republicans who promised such good benefits for our vets and now renege. Nixon and the Repubs did the very same thing after Vietnam, I remember it well.
If the bushies are going to send our troops to war for oil than the Bushie Repubs must see that they are made whole again, or expend every effort in that attempt.

If they have not already done so the Bushie Repubs who care only for themselves will soon be denying PTSD just as they did after the Vietnam war.

The damages of war can extend for up to three generations so our vets, their families and loved ones will be paying for this war for a very long time to come; just as so very many are still paying for the Vietnam war and WWII.

ADDENDUM to my previous:

And the Bushie Repubs and the POPE of the Catholic Church, my church, still CLAIM to support FAMILY VALUES but they really don't. They only support the embryo and once the child is born they all just disappear and are nowhere to be seen after the birth of the child.

These people are blind to the fact that the concept of PRO-LIFE doesn't just extend to the embryo, in fact it extends far, far, far beyond that to all human life as well as the life of our planet given to us by God for our stewardship. The concept of PRO-LIFE extends to every plant and animal which are totally innocent of the wrongdoings of we humans. We must never squander the gifts of this planet so generously given to us by God for our parsimonious use and safekeeping.

I know the Repubs have no values but I always thought that my church stood for HUMAN VALUES. Now I know that is not true. They have gone the way of all institutions they have become self serving at best and corrupt at worst.

One only has to study sociology to understand what happens to institutions which eventually develop a 'hardening of the arteries' with all that entails. They lose sight of their initial intentions and values and become 'lost in the wilderness' of their own self serving interests. This has some nexus aspects of some laws of sociology and physics that describe the behavior of a body in motion.

The pope is in Spain praising their family values but he says nothing to all the Spanish families that lost parents who fought in Iraq in Bush's oil war.

The nazi-fascist neocon values values extend all the way to the papacy.

For myself I will hold fast to the laws of God and the teachings of the true Jesus Christ.

May the Almighty God in His infinite wisdom save us from the institutions of men created by man with all the fallacies of those humans who created them.

So much for supporting our troops. This is what to expect from an administration with absolutely no skin in the game. All those repugnant profiteers have are profits to gain at the end of their sacrificing our best and brightest hope for a future on the greasy alter for oil and other coveted resources.