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if that's the worst you can come up with on the Clintons, I think we can all live with some minor hanky panky as opposed to our country and our military and our vets getting screwed. This hanky panky never personally impacted me or anybody else I know.

On the other hand:

Detail out the job market that he can expect to return to if he's planning to get out of the military soon. Hopefully he's learned a skill in the military and not just a non-transferable combat Mos. If he's sacrificed for our country and was in a combat MOS, he's really screwed -- no one's hiring these days without on-the-job experience.
There are no jobs for gunners. If the President doesn't know how to generate jobs, I suggest you fire him and get someone who can. As the economy started sliding in the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover at least tried to give people jobs by starting a project to improve the road system. His wife ran relief out of the White House.


He knows how overloaded the military is and that its not getting any better. In fact, one of the generals privately has said, that Rumsfeld & co. know that they are breaking the military and that THEY DONT CARE! Also, JCS Shinseki told Rumsfeld that they needed 250K troops to hold Iraq and because Rumsfeld didn't listen to him (and fired him) that's why you are working all these crazy hours under such pressure.

Let's not even get started on the war profiteering by Bush's & Cheney's buddies at Haliburton, etc. Why are there so many Indians and Pakistanis being hired at these companies and not Iraqis? Doesn't that give you a clue as to how an insurgency could get to be so popular? With the billions of dollars spent in Iraq, they could only manage to hire 15-20K Iraqis. If we hired the Iraqis and mopped up some of the unemployment rate (now running at about 50%) there would be a whole lot of people a whole lot less unhappy. Shoot, if we spent put them all on welfare they wouldn't be as mad. One of things the jihadis are doing is handing out welfare.

VA benefits have been slashed. In fact, if he did manage to learn a skill in the military and gets a job in that field in the civilian world, he can not collect overtime for work done beyond 40 hour work week. He can thank Elaine Chao, Secretary of Labor for that rule change.

VA health care has been slashed especially in rural areas. If he lives out that a way hope he doesn't mind waiting a long time for his appointments and not getting the services he and his dependents need. It's kind of a pisser looking at the older vets and realized that they had all this money available for their needs and that you aren't going to get it. Our government after World War II could not thank the vets enough and civilians sacrificed their tax breaks to make sure that they took care of them (in fact, they had a year off after they got home with pay). You aint gonna get anything like that in your lifetime. In fact, you will be getting less than Vietnam vets or Gulf War I vets, courtesy of this administration.

How hard does he have to be hit over the head with a baseball bat by this administration?