My new “support the troops” FLYER, Input please.....

[Room101]

This is just a rough draft. The logistics of the flyer does not look like this.

If we support the troops
Why can’t Bush?

ARMY TIMES
An act of ‘betrayal
In the midst of war, key family benefits face cuts

Commissaries and the Defense Department’s stateside schools are in the crosshairs of Pentagon budget cutters, and military advocates, families and even base commanders are up in arms.

The two initiatives are the latest in a string of actions by the Bush administration to cut or hold down growth in pay and benefits, including basic pay, combat pay, health-care benefits and the death gratuity paid to survivors of troops who die on active duty.

http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=0-ARMYPAPER-2335705.php

ARMY TIMES
Nothing but lip service

In recent months, President Bush and the Republican-controlled Congress have missed no opportunity to heap richly deserved praise on the military. But talk is cheap — and getting cheaper by the day, judging from the nickel-and-dime treatment the troops are getting lately.

For example, the White House griped that various pay-and-benefits incentives added to the 2004 defense budget by Congress are wasteful and unnecessary — including a modest proposal to double the $6,000 gratuity paid to families of troops who die on active duty. This comes at a time when Americans continue to die in Iraq at a rate of about one a day.

Similarly, the administration announced that on Oct. 1 it wants to roll back recent modest increases in monthly imminent-danger pay (from $225 to $150) and family-separation allowance (from $250 to $100) for troops getting shot at in combat zones.

http://www.armytimes.com/archivepaper.php?f=0-ARMYPAPER-1954515.php

Veterans for peace
Bush cuts veterans’ benefits

Every body claims to support the troops. Some do so by backing war. Others by not wanting to send young people to fight an illegal and immoral war. To the pro-war side, I ask, did you know that the Republican majority on the House Budget Committee in March rammed through a resolution that would cut $844 million from veterans’ medical care for next year? At the same time, they managed to come up with $900 million to give to Dick Cheney’s old company Halliburton and a few other big Republican sugar daddies who will quite conveniently be rebuilding Iraq after the war.

http://www.veteransforpeace.org/bush_cuts_vet_benefits_041503.htm

[HawkerHurricane]

1. Very nice

thank you.

[Hekate]

2. Looks like you've covered it pretty well

I take it you've done this before. Keep it up! The Bushites are soooooo baaaad to the troops -- it cannot be pointed out often enough all the ways they are getting shafted by this administration. In these times, the best way to support the troops is to try to get Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz-Perle out of the Pentagon and Bush-Cheney-Rove out of the WH.

Hekate

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."
~Donald Rumsfeld

"But why should we hear about body bags and deaths and how many,
what day it's going to happen, and how many this or what do you
suppose? Oh, I mean, it's not relevant. So why should I waste my
beautiful mind on something like that?" ~Barbara Bush

"I guess the 'nation's grandma' isn't the grandma of those her son sends into harm's way." ~Hekate

ARLINGTON WEST, SANTA BARBARA CALIF.
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Default.htm
click on the large photo of AW to go here:
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Arlington_west_121003.htm
Scroll down the page.

[Room101]

3. Thanks /nt

.

[symbolman]

4. Hey

Have you seen the ARMY OF ONE flash and TV ad that we did at Take Back the Media?

This was shown in New Hampshire 3000 times on Cable (Fox, CNN, etc) during the Primaries and in California..

Take a look -

http://www.takebackthemedia.com

Probably got flyers with the Coffin at the end that would help..

We've been beating this to death for nearly a year.

[Room101]

6. Hell yeah "symbolman" .................

I have it downloaded and I play it on peoples answering machines.
I just called 3 more people from my short contact list today and played it.

:headbang:

[sangha]

5. Please read this thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1128869

[Room101]

7. "sangha " thanks, I bookmarked that thread /NT

.