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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: PROLIFE who wrote (446516)	8/22/2003 3:51:06 PM
From: Red Heeler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

'The Bush administration's shabby treatment of our soldiers' How much does the Bush administration and the GOP members of Congress really support are troops? Since the war began, they stopped a proposed increase in the death benefit paid to families of soldiers who die on active duty from $6,000 to $12,000. They are trying to roll back a recent increase in hazardous duty pay - it was raised from $150 to $250 a month at the start of the war - and have refused to consider tax relief for the soldiers' families back home. They have cut spending for medical treatment of veterans. And, as we've seen in Iraq, too little of the estimated $4 billion a month that we are spending to occupy and rebuild that country is being spent on the soldiers stuck with the dirty work. Go to the websites of Soldiers for the Truth (sftt.com) or retired Army Col. David Hackworth (hackworth.com) and read the e-mails, letters and faxes from the troops in the field in Iraq. The picture of the war you get from these letters is a lot different than what we're getting from the news media. Link: smirkingchimp.com CC