Here is a link to YouTube to watch this embedded video there if you do not see it right below. Republican VA Hypocrits
Jason Easley of Politicus USA reports Bernie Sanders Shreds Republican Hypocrites For Not Understanding The Real Cost of War, and for being pro-war, hut not being willing to vote for the funding necessary to take care of our veterans.
Perhaps, his best line is "if you are not prepared to take care of the men and women who put their lives on the line to defend this country, [...] then don’t send them to war in the first place."
Senator Sanders says"
What many people may not appreciate is that some 200,000 people who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan have come home with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or traumatic brain injury. Others have come home without legs, without eyesight, without arms. People really suffered, and if the country, our country stands for anything, it must be that we do everything that we can to protect those people who put their lives on the line to defend us.
The Republican have created another PR disaster for themselves by trying to turn the VA scandal into an Obama scandal. I have been covering the Republican obstruction of veterans’ legislation for the last few years. Part of the problem is that the media don’t pay attention to veterans’ issues. A story that I wrote about when it happened in February has gotten a lot of play in the last week by the left about Senate Republicans blocking the Sanders bill to expand veterans benefits. What most people don’t know is that Republicans tried to torpedo the bill before it ever came up for vote.
Where was the mass media coverage, and outrage in February? This is a significant part of the problem. Republicans are not held accountable for their hypocrisy. If the country really cared about our veterans we wouldn’t get outraged about Republican obstruction three or four months after it happened.
Senator Sanders is referring to the Republican Senators voting to filibuster a Senate proposal to expand the VA in February.
We don't get Senators any better than Bernie Sanders. He accuses the Republicans of refusing to honor our moral obligation to vets and says again, if we should not start wars of choice if we are not ready to pay the full cost of them, including the full care for our injured veterans for the rest of their lives.
I agree with him 100% and want to know why the traditional media are not asking every Republican this question every time they have them before the camera. We have to keep demanding it.
6:56 PM PT: Please check out my other posts of the last 24 hours. The one of Peptide 1018 destroys biofilm in several strains of antibiotic resistant bacteria is my best effort I spend about four hours on that on. and it has some awesome electron photographs of biofilms. - HD
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Bernie Sanders shreds Republican hypocrites for not being willing to pay full cost of the wars
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