Hating The Troops, Bushit Style

Just when you think the Bushit Assministration's Pentagon couldn't do worse in its treatment of our troops (no body armor, stop-loss orders and multiple combat tours, abysmal facilities at Walter Reed for the wounded, the barracks at Ft. Bragg with raw sewage in the bathrooms, etc.) here comes another outrage. It's been disclosed that some of the returning dead soldiers from Afghanistan and Iraq have been cremated in facilities that also cremate pets. Now that the whistle's been blown, the Pentagon is changing its policy to prevent our soldiers' bodies from being cremated in facilities that also handle animal cremations.

Not surprisingly, Senator Straight-talk McBush is also refusing to sign on to a new bipartisan GI bill, the "Post 9-11 Veterans Assistance Act," sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb, to allow returning Iraq and Afghanistan vets to get educational and training assistance. For so many Rethugs, once they send the troops off with flags waving and patriotic speeches, our soldiers are on their own.