I was going to focus today's diary on the Senate funding for the VA an extra 430 million dollars and the fact that it passed by a wide margin, the fact that all the no votes belonged to republicans is not news, but the one glaring Nay vote was cast by the VA Senate Committee chairman Senator Larry Craig of Idaho, he's the leader of the VA and the budget, and HE voted NO and does he really care about veterans what the Hell, some leader, who's side is he on?
http://www.vawatchdog.org/...
But this article demands more attention, since it is the first article of the full impact of the health of the Iraq war veterans and military members, we have all been fed the numbers of 2389 dead and 17,468 wounded, then why have 144,424 veterans or soldiers been treated by the VA or military doctors, why are more than 200,000 prescriptions for anxiety and anti-depressannts been written for soldiers and their dependents in the past 14 months?
This article deals with the cost of the war, and the untold costs, medical care for the people who bare the brunt of the battle, the soldiers and their families. Not the politicians sending them there, they get to slap each other on the back and tell each other how great they are.
In the meantime they are trying to take care of the nation's veterans the same way they fought the war, on the cheap. This is just another reason for the Veterans Affairs to come off a begging style budget and become what the American voters expect, a medicare type system, if the veteran needs it, then they should have it, after all the veteran earned his medical care in service to his nation either in war, or getting ready for war. Training for war, is just as dangerous as war itself. Many people are killed in vehicle accidents, ammuntion accidents, helicopter crashes, plane crashes, etc.
This just goes to prove what I have been saying for months, that W's campaign slogan "A Promise Made Is A Promise Kept" nothing more than a broken promise.
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