Shrubbery et al are beyond hypocritical. They've gone into hypergreed mode. In this mode, they are legally insane as they cannot tell the difference between right and wrong. This, unfortunately, lets them off without jail time.
Our shabby treatment of our troops:
"...Parents were buying flak jackets and sending them to sons and daughters in Iraq because soldiers were using outdated vests. To this day, thousands of men and women still don't have Interceptor vests, a high-tech model that has saved the lives of soldiers shot in the chest with AK-47 bullets....
"They get over there and find out they don't have the Interceptor vests, they don't have armored Humvees, they're having to buy their own knapsacks, their boots are falling apart, and even their sidearms are not working."...
What isn't nearly as clear is how you can morally justify sinking billions of dollars into the rebuilding of Iraq, but have trouble scraping together a few million dollars to take care of the soldiers who are laying their lives on the line.
If this is where we're going to scrimp, I'd like to return my tax cut...
If you want to thank soldiers for their service, you don't outfit them with second-rate gear and send them into battle under phony pretenses.
You don't make them fight to keep hazardous duty pay when dozens are coming home as amputees and burn victims.
You don't dump them on the East Coast upon their return from battle and make them beg the military to cover the cost of the last leg home.
And you don't, as commander in chief, dishonor their sacrifice by skipping funerals and ordering TV cameras away from coffins that land, one after another, on American soil..."
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