Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17218342/ At Mologne House, a struggle to recover. War survivors wrestle with military bureaucracy, personal demons

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17160574/ Forced to battle the system at Walter Reed

For those of you that read these stories and think, damn republicans, I want you to stop and think for a minute….for this to have gotten this bad, this system was falling in disrepair long before this. It does not excuse the fact, just like our own health care system and education system, we the American people allowed our government to do this to our veterans, our sick, and our children. The last of the patriots, that last of the free thinkers was WWII when according to one author (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16906168/) 10% of the population served in the armed forces. But these people also fought for their rights, stood up for themselves and took it upon themselves to keep our government honest.

Now, according to this author, you’d have to knock on 200 doors before you’d find a family affected by the Iraq War. 200 doors….that is 1/2 of 1% of our nations population. The same probably goes for health care and education. If it doesn’t effect me, it doesn’t matter – our congress and senate and president and all his council are those people. They are one of those 199 doors.

Please call your congress person and tell them you do not want Vietnam revisited……fund our VA’s, fix the system, digitize our soldiers records, take responsibility for the people you broke.    

Senate Armed Forces Committee http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/committees.tt?commid=sarme
House Armed Forces Committee http://www.congress.org/congressorg/directory/committees.tt?commid=hsecu

Thank you

Military Spouse
2nd Deployment Eminent

I have had it with you people. You think you are so clever. But now I have your number. The self-important losers at Irregular Times who have been heaping criticism on Unity08 are PARTISAN dividers! Read their words:

“I am a Democrat”
I am a Democrat because the Democratic Party does the best job representing my values at the local, state and national level.”

Well, I am a Unity08 supporter because I believe in moving beyond rancor, beyond pointless disagreement, beyond stage-show politics to real solutions for real people by real people who care about people. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

Who is paying you to do this? The Democrats, the Republicans, or both?

Arizona Senator John McCain has started to fall behind in the race for the Republican nomination for President in 2008, and so he has begun a desperate campaign to remake himself as the most rabid right wing radical in the race. Over the weekend, Senator McCain declared that he does not just oppose Roe v. Wade in theory, but actively wants to work to see the Supreme Court decision overturned, and would work to do so as President.

McCain said: “I do not support Roe vs. Wade. It should be overturned.”

What’s next? John McCain already supports George W. Bush’s insane vision of an escalation of the Iraq War. So, in order to appear really, really pro-war, will McCain next declare that he supports pulling out of Iraq, and then invading all over again, to start the war out nice and fresh?

John McCain has gone off the deep end.