Where does your reference to 4000+ dead after removal from the battlefield come from? Not that I doubt it, but is there a source you can direct to? Thanks.

Actually, the officer class has its own little caste system and lieutenants and captains do die. granted their numbers aren’t as great as the grunts but there’s no glory in being a Marine or army second lieutenant, not with an RTO following closely behind you to identify your ass as the boss to the enemy.

Granted the generals don’t die with frequency and the officer class, as a class, is pretty conservative, but they are conservative in the true meaning of the word. Except for a few zealots, they don’t advocate ripping up the constitution or the bill of rights; they know the importance of the Geneva Conventions, the Hague Convention, the Rules of Land Warfare and the fact that if we abrogate them there will be no reciprocity when Americans are captured.

This whole group is just emblematic of the guys I was in high school with, the Young Republicans back in the sixties. While some of the working class kids went to Vietnam, these little opportunists went on to college and law school so that by the time those of us lucky enough to survive Vietnam came home, these little weasels were preparing to change America to make it fit their image.

Nothing short of a violent civil war is going to fix the cracks in the America body politic. And you’d be surprised to see the numbers of veterans and active duty Marines and soldiers who are going to rally to the side of those of us who love this country and hate what the Bushies are doing to it.

I can see the commercial now:

Fade in to montage of clips from angry Republicans in mid rant about how Democrats and liberals hate the troops, want to kill the troops, and don’t support the troops.

Here, hmm… perhaps whipe to various still shots of US troops, starting with typical, daily tasks, with a voice over listing bills that Republicans have voted down, like increases in VA benefits and other “support the troops” legislation, all the while changing the images of the soldiers to gritty combat shots of troops in harms way.

Fade to black, add voice over, “Who really supports the troops?”

Sieg Heil!!!!

The head bone’s connected to … Bush?
Saturday, September 23, 2000
One expects, from a family of politicians, a certain amount of skullduggery. But that is a term of art. It should not involve the actual digging of skulls.
So begins one of the odder political stories of recent years. It involves allegations that George W. Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, late of the United States Senate by way of Connecticut, had joined a midnight foray 82 years ago into an Oklahoma graveyard whence he emerged with the mortal skull of Geronimo, the Apache warlord who spent his final years as a tourist attraction and, it would seem, part of his afterlife as a souvenir.

House members, who passed their version of the VA Department’s 2006 budget in May, blasted the department for not informing them of the budget problems before June.

“If the VA had informed Congress about funding difficulties, I believe Congress could have added several hundred million to the Iraqi war supplemental,� said Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Texas, ranking member of the House Appropriations’ Subcommittee on Military Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs.

House Appropriations Committee chairman Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., said the decision not to ask for help earlier “borders on stupidity� and suggested that some officials within the department might have been trying to hide the problem.

Nicholson blamed the shortfall on outdated forecasting methods and the increased workload related to veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. But he promised lawmakers the financial problems would not impact the care veterans receive, calling that the agency’s top priority.

Over in the Senate, Veterans Affairs Committee chairman Larry Craig, R-Idaho, said lawmakers need truthful information from department officials to make their budget needs are met.

“Now, I sit here having recently learned that the information provided to me thus far has been disturbingly inaccurate,� he said. “Needless to say, Mr. Secretary, I am not pleased with that.�

The Senate is still debating its version of the department’s fiscal 2006 budget, and Craig said lawmakers there will take the deficit into account before it passes a final budget.

Meanwhile, House officials said they will conduct their own investigation into the size of the department’s budget deficit for next year and how to prevent similar shortfalls in the future

Furthermore, the records show that Bush and his colleagues routinely attempted to conceal their activities from government investigators.

Bush’s partners in the secret web of Thyssen-controlled ventures included former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman and his younger brother, E. Roland Harriman. Their quarter-century of Nazi financial transactions, from 1924-1951, were conducted by the New York private banking firm, Brown Brothers Harriman.

The White House did not return phone calls seeking comment.

And you seem suprised by anything these thugs do??? Bet O’reilly won’t spin this one!!!!

Time is ticking on this fascist regime. It will be overthrown.

Tick f’in tock Chimpy. Tick f’in tock!

He has an attitude that says, in your face. So, what are you going to do about it??? The people are getting angry, but until all voices raise in anger and just plain disgust he will continue to act in a manner that is sub-human and arrogant. He is essentially a bully who only cares who can line his pockets. He aligns himself with bullies. Look at the characters of Bolton, Chenney, DeLay. These are his people. What is the old saying, Birds of a feather……

The soliders are being thrown to the sidewalk because they have served their purpose. They don’t make any money for Bush & Co. so why would he care??? Hmmm…Ponder that??

Too bad the National Guard doesn’t keep you out of combat like it used to, right George?

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