Reminder: the GOP has been attacking veterans and their families for years
After Donald Trump attacked the family of a dead Army captain, fallen in the field, on the ground that they were Muslims, many were shocked at the new low that the Republican presidential candidate had sunk to.
But as Corey Robin reminds us, the GOP has made a standard practice out of smearing and libelling US military veterans. Who can forget the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth?
But the Lying Swift Boaters were just the highest-profile example. The beta-test for them was former Georgia Democratic Senator Max Cleland, a US Army vet who lost both legs and part of one arm in Vietnam, whose 2002 GOP challenger, Saxby Chambliss, ran TV ads comparing him to Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Then there Cindy Sheehan, another Gold Star mother mercilessly smeared by the GOP and its supporters for speaking out against an illegal and immoral war.
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Fuckers.
*Unless vet benefits would cost anything in the budget.
did to Max Cleland. May "Shameless" rest in hell.
They attacked Gore, Kerry, Murtha, Rangel, Conyers, Tammy Duckworth, the Code Pink Mothers...
There are more Democrats who served in the military than there are Republicans.
Then, look at their record: They cut funds from the VA, from housing for vets, and other services. Then, turn around and blame Democrats for it. And we're so stupid and gullible to believe them.
Republicans have a history of gutting VA benefits and not giving a shit about vets . (Remember PTSD funding?) And yet, too many vets vote Repubican against their own best interests. And most Anericans but into the lie that ReThugs are better on military issues.
Sick and sad. 
