Warmongers support war -- not the troops

By Libby

Picking up on ExPatBrian's theme, here's a couple of more examples of outrageous maltreatment of our troops. I have a slightly longer post at Newshoggers but really this video speaks for itself. Our government sends these soldiers repeatedly in hellholes for 15 months at a stretch and they come home to three inches sewage on the floor of their barracks. As Brandon Friedman points out it's a disgrace that they can spend three-quarters of a billion dollars on Bush's fortress the embassy in Baghdad, but our troops have to live like this. In fact it's more than a disgrace. It's damn criminal negligence.

Meanwhile, the VA refuses to help injured vets register to vote and are fighting any efforts to help them do so in court. Think that has anything to do with the fact that the majority of soldiers are now leaning towards Obama or Ron Paul?

And where are the warbloggers on these issues? I took a vomit inducing tour of the some of the bigger ones this morning and not one word about the maltreatment of our troops. Malkin is screeching about McCain's failure to endorse hatemongering ads and Tigerhawk wants to shut down the post office and bank branches because what the hell, he doesn't use them anymore. Nevermind the poor and the elderly who don't have computers or transportation to main bank branches. The rest are just flogging the latest hate speech about liberals and Democrats.

I'm not a violent person but this morning, I feel like shoving magnetic yellow ribbons down a few wingnut throats.