Open letter to President Bush from an 18 year-old American:
06/08/03
Dear President Bush,
Why did you approve a 100 billion dollar wartime budget, while in the same week, CUT 25 BILLION dollars out of Veteran benefits and medical benefits? How can you justify sending these young men over there to fight and die, and then screw them like this? All I'm asking is that you support our troops, President Bush.
As someone who respects and admires those who have served our country, I am greatly offended by this. I think that if they were willing to go over, and fight your war, they deserve some kind of retribution, some kind of reward. Your actions of cutting their benefits are a literal slap in their face.
The majority of Gulf War and Vietnam veterans I have talked to told me that they were pretty much screwed by the Veterans Association. One Gulf War veteran even reported being "experiemented on" by the State Department. Many of them went to the VA and reported symptons of "Gulf Syndrome", and yet many were turned down, left out in the rain to fend for themselves, disabled. As of your recent Veterans benefits slash, now the veterans of our past wars can't get as much of the benefits they deserve as previously.
How dare you call yourself patriotic, when you take these kind of actions. You have become a traitor to those men who call themselves WARRIORS and were willing to fight and die for you. Why didn't you proudly announce your 25 billion dollar budget cut from the Veteran Benefits as proudly as you annuonced your declaration of war on Iraq?
And how in the world can you possibly justify fighting for "democracy" in another country when your renegade Justice Department and John Ashcroft are destroying our Bill of Rights, our Constitution? What about 9-11, and the investigation? Why has your adminstration been uncooperative with the investigation? What are yall afraid of? Or more like, what is it that you all are hiding?
America doesn't need you, or want you.
Please step down from office in 2004.
Sincerely,
Corey Cananza
Muscles598@yahoo.com
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I ran across this letter on two of several sites I visit regularly and was wondering about the accuracy of the assertion he makes regarding the budget cut from the Veterans' benefits. Can anyone confirm or refute this? The figure seems to be tossed around quite frequently but the only concrete statement I could dig up regarding it was the following:
Unfortunately, there have been misleading reports circulating in the press about ?deep cuts? coming in veterans' health care and benefits...Although the Bush Administration may have proposed these ideas, both received cold receptions in the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and have neither been endorsed nor approved by Congress.
Veterans' Health Benefits Won't Be Cut
Apologies if this has been discussed in a different thread, but I couldn't find any prior discussions when I tried running a search in the forums.
06/08/03
Dear President Bush,
Why did you approve a 100 billion dollar wartime budget, while in the same week, CUT 25 BILLION dollars out of Veteran benefits and medical benefits? How can you justify sending these young men over there to fight and die, and then screw them like this? All I'm asking is that you support our troops, President Bush.
As someone who respects and admires those who have served our country, I am greatly offended by this. I think that if they were willing to go over, and fight your war, they deserve some kind of retribution, some kind of reward. Your actions of cutting their benefits are a literal slap in their face.
The majority of Gulf War and Vietnam veterans I have talked to told me that they were pretty much screwed by the Veterans Association. One Gulf War veteran even reported being "experiemented on" by the State Department. Many of them went to the VA and reported symptons of "Gulf Syndrome", and yet many were turned down, left out in the rain to fend for themselves, disabled. As of your recent Veterans benefits slash, now the veterans of our past wars can't get as much of the benefits they deserve as previously.
How dare you call yourself patriotic, when you take these kind of actions. You have become a traitor to those men who call themselves WARRIORS and were willing to fight and die for you. Why didn't you proudly announce your 25 billion dollar budget cut from the Veteran Benefits as proudly as you annuonced your declaration of war on Iraq?
And how in the world can you possibly justify fighting for "democracy" in another country when your renegade Justice Department and John Ashcroft are destroying our Bill of Rights, our Constitution? What about 9-11, and the investigation? Why has your adminstration been uncooperative with the investigation? What are yall afraid of? Or more like, what is it that you all are hiding?
America doesn't need you, or want you.
Please step down from office in 2004.
Sincerely,
Corey Cananza
Muscles598@yahoo.com
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I ran across this letter on two of several sites I visit regularly and was wondering about the accuracy of the assertion he makes regarding the budget cut from the Veterans' benefits. Can anyone confirm or refute this? The figure seems to be tossed around quite frequently but the only concrete statement I could dig up regarding it was the following:
Unfortunately, there have been misleading reports circulating in the press about ?deep cuts? coming in veterans' health care and benefits...Although the Bush Administration may have proposed these ideas, both received cold receptions in the Committee on Veterans' Affairs and have neither been endorsed nor approved by Congress.
Veterans' Health Benefits Won't Be Cut
Apologies if this has been discussed in a different thread, but I couldn't find any prior discussions when I tried running a search in the forums.
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