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• Saturday, December 23, 2006 01:20 PM

  The Vets Will Pay The Ultimate Price

  The damn gov't is reluctant to study these phenomena because they regard our beloved troops as throwaways/ disposable.

  And those of us who have not forgotten what happened to our troops as a result of the Vietnam war and anguish on a daily basis over our troops, as I do, and about the huge lack of any humanity in the Bush admin or the rethug party as they push for this endless war which is caused by rethug greed for power and money and Bush's legacy no matter the cost to our troops and the Iraqi people.

  And THEY call us who dissent and question as having a lack of patriotism when in reality it is THEY whose sole allegiance is to the Republican Party not to America or our troops. As our troops need the social and health network to care for them the so called Conservative Pro-Life(thats a big joke) Republican Party of christian morals really have no morals at all. Religious absolutism is destroying America.

  Also let us not forget that the rethuglikkkan party has three 'Pillers' of support, like many oil rigs(pun intended and so appropos) the three 'pillers' which keep the rethugs going are the Corportocracy, the Neocons and the Theocons/Theocrats which are predominately the white southern Baptists and the Catholic Church, my church, a church of narrow minded religious absolutists who serve only their own selfish agenda no matter the cost to America or our troops or the people of the ME.

  If 'we the people' could get rid of these three 'Pillers'we might yet dig our way out of their mess which we have been dragged DOWN into and which our troops and the Iraqi people are paying the ultimate price. And just as our Vietnam War vets were shortchanged and many, many still suffer to this very day and will do so for the rest of their lives as will their families, so to will the vets of Iraq and Afghanistan and their families be shortchanged and will suffer, many for their entire lives.

  So again we must ask ourselves is it all worth it? I say NO. This was a phony war from the beginning, and Bin Laden still walks around free; as do the three 'Pillers' supporting the Repub party most especially my own religion the Catholic religion and the Pope both of whom are so egregiously guilty and complicit in their reign of death and the horrors suffered our troops and the people of Iraq and Afghanistan.

  —bobr900 Read bobr900's other letters
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