John Kerry: Listen to These Vets

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John Kerry: Listen to These Vets
by: Senator John Kerry
Thu Mar 04, 2010 at 19:17:40 PM EST

The Senate needs to listen to these veterans:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_PRzP0R88&feature=player_embedded

Enough words have been spoken in Washington, with none as powerful as what these vets have to say. Let's keep it simple and straight. Politicians have talked for years about the link between foreign oil and global terrorism.

And these veterans are doing their duty once again when they remind politicians in Washington that it's not "tough" to vote for legislation that creates jobs, cuts pollution, and strengthens our national security -- what's tough is what happens when we don't and our troops shoulder that awful burden instead.

And it's true. Don't believe me? The Pentagon recently released their quadrennial defense review, and they included the instability from climate change as a factor that could cost the lives of the men and women who serve in our armed forces.

The Center for Naval Analysis brought together a blue-ribbon panel of generals and admirals who concluded that "climate change is a serious national security threat." And General Anthony Zinni said flatly that if we don't deal with climate change now, "we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives."

And these veterans know it already does.

The politicians don't have it tough. The troops do. End of story. Now the Senate needs to do its job -- for them.

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1. Thank you Senator.

It ALL connects. You'd have to be pretty damn obtuse to not see it by now. Or....a byproduct of US newsmedia dumbing down the citizenry for the last 3 decades.