Again We Ask, Why Does Bush Hate the Troops

This from ThinkProgress: The Bush administration today threatened to a veto a House defense spending bill over a 3.5% pay raise for U.S. soldiers and a $40/month increase in benefits for military widows, among other provisions. The legislation passed the House today 397-27.

"Troops don’t need bigger pay raises."

Troops do need involuntary extensions of deployments. Troops do need to stay in Iraq for an indefinite period of time in the middle of a civil war with no clear defintion for success. Troops do need to be sent to war without the necessary equipment and body armor. Troops do need to come home to a decrepit Walter Reed.

But what our troops most certainly do NOT need is bigger pay raises.