But in this case, the selflessness of the individuals being used is saintly, and the price they’re paying is extraordinary. The egregious profanity of the way they and their families are being treated, this being but the latest example, requires a depth of depravity, heartlessness, and sheer arrogance never before witnessed in the United States of America. How dare this chicken-hawk coke-snorting drunken coward deny ANYTHING to the people he’s sacrificing on the altar of oil company profits?

How much more of this vile cretin are we going to take?

Still, I have to wonder what all those GOP zombies cheering for torture down in South Carolina Wednesday night would think about this if it was ever brought to the attention of their pea-sized brains. Would they be pleased to know their beloved leader is determined to keep the hired help dying for them at such bargain-basement prices?

Probably. They are Republicans, after all.

Here is my proposal: Each man or woman in combat earns a minimum of $100K/year. If he gets injured, he gets red carpet benefits, everything that is medically beneficial plus a full-time attendant, if he needs one. If he dies, his heirs get that salary up until the year that he would have turned 65, after that, they get his pension until he would have turned 80. Details can be ironed out.

These people deserve it for the risks they take. As it is, they are being taken advantage of. The government needs to pay a steep price if they get injured or killed in the line of duty.

What the hell. It’s worked before. Why not do it again? And again. And again. And again. And again.

The man is pathetic.

Replace soldier with survivor please.

Authorizes appropriations to DOD for: (1) procurement, including for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion; (2) research, development, test, and evaluation, including ballistic missile defense; (3) operation and maintenance, including for defense working capital funds, the Defense Health Program, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, and environmental restoration; (4) active and reserve military personnel, including end strengths and the Armed Forces Retirement Home; (5) increased costs for military activities and military construction due to the global war on terror (6) the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program; (7) chemical demilitarization construction; and (8) Guard and reserve forces facilities.

Still, the idea of a spit shower coming from all those troops he props up behind him at his speeches…………

Said with a sense of utter entitlement like the effeet fops BEFORE THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.

Down with Elites!! Drive the Republicans out of their palaces and gated communities bought with the blood of the people!

Sounds like a good idea. But, please tell me how they can do that. The Democrats have no power with the media. The media is owned by corporate conglomerates who are beholden to Bush for their billions of dollars of profits they are making off of this occupation. They are not going to bite the hand that feeds them.

Bush’s Private Extreme Right-Wing Christian Army BLACKWATER Gets Preferential Treatment…

…While many soldiers lack basic protective equipment…they are in a war zone where they see the private soldiers whiz by in better vehicles, with better armor, better weapons, wearing the corporate logo instead of the American flag and pulling in much more money. They ask: Are our lives worth less?

…The testimony about private contractors that I hear most often from active duty soldiers falls into two categories: resentment and envy.

The second reaction is that the active-duty soldiers see the “rock star” private contractors and they want to be like them. So we have a phenomenon of soldiers leaving active duty to join the private sector.

There is slang in Iraq now for this jump. It is called “Going Blackwater.” To put it bluntly, these private forces create a system where national duty is outbid by profits. And yet these forces are being used for mission-critical activities. Indeed, in January Gen. David Petraeus admitted that on his last tour in Iraq, he himself was protected not by the active-duty military but by private “contract security.”

……Just as there is a double standard in pay, there is a double standard in the application of the law. Soldiers who commit crimes or acts of misconduct are prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice….Despite the fact that tens of thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands, have streamed in and out of Iraq since March of 2003, only two private contractors have faced any criminal prosecution. Two.

…US contractors in Iraq reportedly have their own motto: “What happens here today, stays here today.” That should be chilling to everyone who believes that warfare, above all government functions, must be subject to transparency, accountability and the rule of law.