House passes bill authorizing endless "world-wide" war, just as momentum is

[Cal33]

building up against it. These Neocons are perfectly willing to continue making war for
the sake of profit! These incredible sickos! What business do they have being in
government?

The Dems. will have to stop them in the Senate. And, in addition, shout it out loud
for all Americans and the whole world to hear. This is what the Neocons (so-called
Republicans) are. Endless human lives sacrificed for the Neocons' profit!

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/306-10/6080-house-passes-bill-authorizing-endless-qworldwide-warq

[truedelphi]

1. Oh, neo con, Republicans my arse!

The Dems held a majority in Congress from January 2007 on. At any point they themselves could have risen up and they could have quit funding the wars. (Which is what both parties in Congress did back in the seventies to basically get us out of Vietnam.)

But the Military Industrial Complex, and the HOMELAND SECURITY new group of Uber Companies want nothing more than endless wars and terror. The Two PArty, broken political system we have here is totally OWNED by the Big Bucks MIC.

And the problem is with both parties.

[Mz Pip]

2. It will have to get through the senate

Obama has threatened to veto it, so we shall see.

[Cal33]

4. This is an opportunity to let more Americans ( who are totally ignorant of

what Corporate America and the Military/Industrial Complex are like) learn
something about them. Dems. should not lose golden opportunities like
this one to begin undoing some of the harm the Repub. lies have done so far.

Shout it out on the roof-tops. And do it each and every time something
like this occurs. In time there will be fewer people voting Republican,
when they unlearn some of the lies that have been pounded into their brains,
and begin to know what the Repub. leadership truly is about.

We might then begin to elect more responsible leaders into office. This
applies to either Party.

[Mz Pip]

7. I agree.

Unfortunately more people care about Sarah Palin's motorcycle ride than they do about things like this.

[patrice]

3. I asked my Rep representative about this and he denied any knowledge of it & said he'd be

against any such thing succeeding.

Rachel Maddow has said recently that the War Powers Act, Presidential : Congressional war powers, needs much more attention NOW.

[robdogbucky]

5. Returning veterans encounter VA mental health meltdown

Tales of 3 Marines underscore court decision blasting 'unchecked incompetence' at agency


"...The stories of Hunt, Northcutt and Towers are not unique. Similar allegations are leveled in a lawsuit against the Veterans Administration filed by two veterans groups that argue delays in the process of evaluating and treating returning veterans with mental health problems are systematic.

‘Unchecked incompetence'
On May 10, a federal appeals court judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, ordering the VA to drastically overhaul its mental health care system and accusing it of “unchecked incompetence.”

The ruling accused both Congress and the Obama administration of failing veterans. “We would have preferred Congress or the president to have remedied the VA’s egregious problems without our intervention,” wrote Reinhardt...

...The scope of the problem also was highlighted in an April 2008 study by the RAND Corp.,which found that 18.5 percent of veterans deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001 suffered from PTSD upon their return home. Fully one-third were seen at a VA facility for mental health within one year, it said...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42995663/ns/health-health_care/

[Cal33]

8. I thought Obama's appointing a general, former chief-of-staff, head of

the new VA, would take care of the veterans. Of course, the Repubs.
would like to cut down spending on them. Is the VA being properly
funded?

Bush's policy was to make use of the soldiers, but once they come
home wounded, to hell with them. Typical for Neocons.

[patrice]

6. This is an extremely important issue. Rachel M. has been talking about it too. nt

[Cal33]

9. The people who want wars to be permanent, so that they can

make more profits from them (blood money) -- we are living today Eisenhower's warning (and prophesy) of 50 years ago.

[patrice]

10. I have sort of known, but now I feel like a naive baby just waking up to the truth of this.

It's ironic, because I have always been more aware than your average bear, so I have known what Eisenhower was warning us about for a long time, but only just lately do I feel I really understand it, almost as though I'd never really understood it all of these years.