This Is How Bush and the GOP Support Our Troops?

Bush sent American soldiers into Iraq to fight a war of choice; one based on lies. He's compelled these soldiers to serve multiple tours of duty. He's sent them into this war poorly equipped and without the necessary body armor to protect themselves. And now he's sending more of them into a civil war which he himself created, while at the same time trying to cut funding for veterans' health care.

And how does he treat them when they get back? In a two-part series this weekend, the Washington Post details the revolting conditions at Walter Reed Hospital Army Medical Center, where wounded Iraqi War veterans are sent to recuperate.

"Behind the door of Army Spec. Jeremy Duncan’s room, part of the wall is torn and hangs in the air, weighted down with black mold. When the wounded combat engineer stands in his shower and looks up, he can see the bathtub on the floor above through a rotted hole. The entire building, constructed between the world wars, often smells like greasy carry-out. Signs of neglect are everywhere: mouse droppings, belly-up cockroaches, stained carpets, cheap mattresses.

This is the world of Building 18, not the kind of place where Duncan expected to recover when he was evacuated to Walter Reed Army Medical Center from Iraq last February with a broken neck and a shredded left ear, nearly dead from blood loss. But the old lodge, just outside the gates of the hospital and five miles up the road from the White House, has housed hundreds of maimed soldiers recuperating from injuries suffered in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."

If you've read none of the links that we've posted on this site since its inception, I beg you to read this two-part series. If this doesn't make you angry; if this doesn't make you want to rip off those "Support Our Troops" stickers that are side-by-side "Bush/Cheney" stickers on SUV's driving around town; if this doesn't convince you that Bush and Cheney and the rest of the Republican Party really don't give a crap about our troops, then nothing will.

Want to really support our troops? Bring them home. Now.