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Monday, April 9, 2007 12:00 AM

Injured troops shipped back into battle

Salon has uncovered further evidence that the military sent soldiers with acute post-traumatic stress disorder, severe back injuries and other serious war wounds back to Iraq.

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  • Monday, April 9, 2007 09:35 AM

    Dying for Halliburton..

    This situation of our Military and this President sending those troops who already show signs of PTSD and even real physical injuries, as I have witnessed already, back to Iraq and or into the field is just disgusting..

    These are our sisters and brothers our cousins and sons and daughters or cousins husband in my case..

    They are us..not separate but us, We The People..

    This President also wants to cut housing for the disabled by just short of half and cut the health benefits that were on line to go to our nations children..so he'll pay for this war on the backs of the poor and those most in need and vulnerable..

    Bush has to maintain his immoral inequitable out of whack Tax Cuts for those of the top 5 and really 1%..

    Our Corporations contribute only 7% to our Tax base and employ just barely 20% of our population, but we send our sons and daughter to die for these corporations and their ghoulish supplicants like Cheney and Bush's rotten corrupt associates..

    These Corporations care nothing of America or it's long term well being as is record, and they will even commit outright treason and sell our military technology to the enemy and of course dual use technology as well..

    We just saw this treason in the instance of ITT..

    Now what can be done Our Congress is in cahoots with these villains, all to many of them and the Republicans hide their deceit as they hide behind the Troops..

    Where should be bury our dead those who are dying for this Corporate Cash Cow of Iraq..in Arlington or outside Halliburton headquarters in Dubai..

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