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To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (30701)	10/28/2003 8:19:14 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Read Replies (2) of 89467

"To all of our men and women in uniform, and to their parents and families: Help is on the way!" –- Dick Cheney campaigning in the 2000 presidential elections. Our frugal White House stands formally opposed to giving National Guard and Reserve members access to the Pentagon's health insurance system. In fact, George Bush wants just such a long-overdue proposal -- which would let 1.2 million Guard and Reserve members buy health coverage through the Pentagon, like other soldiers -- stripped out of his $87 billion Iraq adventure wish list. Why? Because, the Administration says, that kinda health care for soldiers -- why, it could cost $400 million a year! Four hundred million dollars! You don't say! Meanwhile, this same cost-conscious Republican Administration has not said boo about roughly $339 million in that same bill that will cover only the cost of flagrant overcharging by Halliburton for gasoline for our troops! Hmmm. So ... health care for America's soldiers would be a waste of a good $400 million. And this at a time of war, when some soldiers down in Georgia have been waiting weeks or even months to see a doctor, in substandard barracks without air conditioning or indoor plumbing, where they are expected to buy their own toilet paper. But when $400 million has been demonstrated convincingly to represent a plundering of the US Treasury -- part of an amoral bacchanalia of war profiteering by the Vice President's oil buddies -- then the table-pounding fit of presidential pique is reserved solely for those who dare question it. Would this be a good time to mention that the Republican-dominated Congress just graciously accepted its annual pay raise from itself? www.thenation.com

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