Track Palin Killed By Roadside Bomb
September 9, 2008
Now that I have your attention, I certainly hope this doesn’t happen to Track Palin or anymore of our fine military men and women in Iraq or elsewhere. The fact is it will and it is just as likely to happen to him as it is to anyone else. At least I certainly hope he isn’t given any special treatment as a politicians son.
That being said if it happens I hope it hurts and opens Sarah Palin’s eyes to the world we live in. This war is not a task from god, it is not a predestined war to claim the Holy Grail. It is a war of politics that is now being fought with her son. She claims to be this wonderful mother, something I have a hard time buying, with the way she handled Trig Palin’s birth, but that is another story. The way our veterans are being treated by the current administration is atrocious, and I really hope it doesn’t take Track Palin coming home blind, missing body parts, unable to function with PTSD, or worse in a body bag for this politician to demand and help make changes possible.
For all that John McCain claims to have suffered with as POW and Veteran, I shake my head every time I see the way he failed our military and veterans. It is all well and good to show up and crack jokes at a VFW Hall, but when it comes to really supporting our troops, rather than supporting our war machine he as failed. Ask any wounded, maimed, or disfigured soldier what he could do better for the troops, and you will get a variety of answers , but they will all boil down to pretty much the same thing ‘act like a human being rather than a politician’. If we are going to fight a war, any war, we need to do better by our men and women who choose to serve.
These are the things I want to see done for our military personnel and families.
1) Paid enough so no military family has to ever apply for welfare. They are willing to risk their lives in service, we should at least pay them enough to live.
2) Retirees shouldn’t be screwed out of their benefits with privatization.
3) No veteran should have to go through months of bureaucracy to get into the VA system only to have to go through months or years more to get benefits and treatment for conditions associated with their service.
4) Allow women into combat units. How does this help our personnel and families? Easy, politicians can in great confidence walk up to the voting parents of a young man killed in combat and say “You’re son died an honorable death, here is your flag.” They can’t so easily say “We are real sorry that your daughter is unable to walk and her face is burned beyond recognition thanks to that pesky roadside bomb.” Simply put women in combat units mean politicians are going to be as quick to risk their lives.
5) Any new war or military action must be declared while standing in front of the Vietnam Memorial, and only after every name is read aloud for the Camera. No cheating the president whoever they are has to stand and listen to the full recitation.
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