Don't Throw Sergeant VerSteegh From His House

Don't Throw Sergeant VerSteegh From His House

Robert Naiman


Huffington Post

May 31, 2008

May 29, 2008 - I'm delighted Senator Webb's GI Bill and Senator McCain's opposition to it presents another opportunity to emphasize that the neoconservative elite who lied about Iraq also lied about "supporting the troops" -- the very club they used to silence criticism when they lied about Iraq. If we can reach the place where a super-majority of the U.S. population is permanently convinced that you can't trust anything related to military affairs said by neocon elitists like Pastor John Hagee's AIPAC, it's quite plausible that we could, at long last, enjoy a Presidency of the United States in which the U.S. commits no new violations of international law with respect to the use of military force.

In the latest evidence that neocons "support the troops" as long as it doesn't cost anything to them or their rich elitist friends, Bloomberg reports:

In the midst of the worst surge in mortgage defaults in seven decades, foreclosures in U.S. towns where soldiers live are increasing at a pace almost four times the national average.
You might think veterans' groups would be very concerned about this. You'd be right.

"We've never faced a situation like this, not in the Vietnam War, World War II, or the Korean War, where so many military are in danger of losing their homes," said Paul Sullivan, executive director of Veterans for Common Sense, a Washington-based advocacy group started in 2002 by Iraq and Afghanistan War veterans. "No one asked them for their credit score when we asked them to fight for us."

How does this affect the family of an individual soldier?

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http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/ArticleID/10259