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Corporate profiteering against Iraq vets?
Bush's nominee to head the Department of Veterans Affairs is the second to come from a private company that rakes in millions from VA contracts.
By Mark Benjamin [2007-11-20]

  • Thanks Mark Benjamin

    I made a comment on the first sentence blue 'hit' from your last expose. shush.

    Ya's are not supposed to be awarded a purple pimple. If on the butt is a wound that deserves a Purple Heart, it's because hot metal lodged in the hind-quarter. O, so we now get an award of a prestigious Purple Pimple!

    When I was on convalescent leave in 1970, or maybe it was called remaining on the Hospital Hold Attachment? I forget. It was a festering left leg that would not heal and my date to get out of the army had passed. S0- To Remain in The Service at the convenience of the government was the only reality for me. Can't send a vet to the dog kennel with a leg still seeping pus. SO- because the left leg oozed with a bone-rot osteomyelitis infection-?-~

    Honest. A job the army assigned me was the Medical Library. At Kimbrough Army Hospital, at Fort Meade, Maryland, there were good staff too.

    I had the "privilege" of Xeroxing medical disabilities ratings. I'll never forget reading the combined %-scale of a retiring general.

    You know: 2% for mortar to the head for a Pfc, a 10 % for a lost limb, and for a Lt.General- a 14% for a purple pimple on the behind rear area. I'm trying to not exaggerate, but, it is important to communicate the truth via "hyperbole" illustrations.

    In addition to all the combined percentage disabilities- I not joking-- was hemorrhoids on one creepy generals compensation retirement package.

    -- bebop-o
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    Tuesday, November 20, 2007 02:43 AM
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