Gay Conservative

I’ve just read the Veteran’s Day article written by Marine-smearing Democrap Jack Murtha, and I am (once again) thoroughly nauseated.  The man has the patent nerve to bang on his cheast and crow about how much the Democratic Congress has done for our veterans.  He misses a few things, though.

He talks about passing a $16 billion spending increase to the Bureau of Veterans Affairs.  I suppose he didn’t take into account offsetting the $16 billion CUT made by the bill signed into law by former president Bill Clinton, a bill that didn’t take effect until Bush was in office and has since been blamed on Dubya.  And the 15,000 “new” VA healthcare workers?  We’re really just hiring them back.  Of course Murtha won’t say that, it’d cut into his mirror-mirror-on-the-wall moment.

He brags about raising mileage reimbursements for our troops–from eleven cents a mile to just over forty-one cents a mile.  Hmph.  Took ‘em long enough.  Eight years of Bill Clinton, and we couldn’t figure that out THEN?  And I love his claim that they spent $1.2 billion in the past two years to treat traumatic brain injuries.  According to the Brain Injury Association of America, the federal government spent $85 million in 2006 and $235 million in 2007.  That means that they appropriated $680 million in 2008, right?  I doubt it.

Providing for mental health?  Do you really think you’re that much better at it?  He says the VA has prevented 1200 suicides in the past two years.  Where are you getting this number?  And what are the numbers from previous years?  Dude, suicide has only come into the spotlight as being a problem among soldiers now because we’re in a time of war and it’s a fantastic story for the press.  You think it wasn’t a problem before we went to war?

And the “new” GI Bill only provides for monthly living expenses because our troops have been saying for years that they couldn’t afford to actually use their MGIB benefits–they’d have to work full-time to have a place to live, and that would leave little to no time for school.  This is AFTER you took away the military’s pre-service education program, which did the same thing for troops who wanted to finish college before serving.  The devil’s in the details, I guess.

Jack Murtha is the same coward who smeared the Marines after the Haditha incident.  In short, back in November 2005 a group of Marines were ambushed just outside the Iraqi town of Haditha.  With two of their number dead, they went into the town to find the “trigger house” (where the insurgents waited to trigger the IED that had blown up on their convoy) and, upon coming under fire, the Marines reacted.  Well-trained insurgents lured the Marines into three houses, where innocent civilians were used as human shields for the insurgents to hide behind.  After all was said and done, an atrocity was claimed, and the media touted it as a disgrace.  Without having heard the evidence–nor caring about it–Jack Murtha jumped up with both feet and declared the Marines murderers and cried out for “justice.”

The marines involved–SSgt. FrankWuterich, Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, Lt. Andrew Grayson, LCpl. Stephen Tatum, Capt. Lucas McConnell, LCpl. Justin Sharratt, Capt. Randy Stone and LCpl. Sanick Dela Cruz–have all but been exonerated (Wuterich and Chessani still await another trial after both were initially cleared).  The press is famous for ruining people for no reason, but a Congressman?  Jack Murtha served for a short stint as a young man, he should have known better.  And despite those Marines being exonerated, Murtha has tacitly refused to apologize.  When confronted by a reporter from the Young America Foundation, Murtha shut his yap and simply slinked away, refusing to speak on the issue.

This was how he ended his tribute today:

“While we can never fully repay the debt of gratitude we owe to the men and women who put on the uniform, we can and will work to fulfill our promise of taking care of each and every veteran. We owe them no less.”

I agree. You can start by growing a pair, standing up and shaking each and every one of those Marines’ hands and apologizing for your thoughtless, careless and demeaning statements, words that ruined not only their morale but damaged their lives forever. YOU owe them no less, you gutless coward.

To my little brother Paul (Gregg), my buddies Tyler, Johnny and Tony, my cousin Mark, and all my other friends and family who have served–thank you. You’re my heroes.