Thursday, November 10, 2005

"Support our troops" - yeah, right

You are just not going to believe this. Here is a report entitled, "Veterans Day Outrage: Conservatives End 55-Year-Old Practice of Hearings for Vet Groups". Here's what it says:

On Tuesday — three days before Veterans Day — House Veterans’ Affairs Committee Chairman Steve Buyer (R-IN) announced that for the first time in at least 55 years, “veterans service organizations will no longer have the opportunity to present testimony before a joint hearing of the House and Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committees.”
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The Disabled American Veterans, the “official voice of America’s service-connected disabled veterans,” just issued a scathing release calling the move “an insult to all who have fought, sacrificed and died to defend the Constitution.” The timing, they said, “could not have been worse.”


I have one word for the so-called conservatives: hypocrites.

2 comments:

  1. Anonymous5:28 PM

    I followed the links, but could not find anything that identified who to contact to try to do anything about this horrible act of injustice. Any suggestions?

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  2. Anonymous12:57 PM

    Any suggestions as the best way to protest this total disrespect of those who served and had their lives changed forever by that service?
    Carolyn L.

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