The One Billion Dollar Misunderstanding

Yes, that is one billion dollars not available for veterans' health care.

Now all of a sudden it comes as a big surprise to the chickenhawk bastards in charge of this fucked-up mess that we have nearly 13,000 wounded, many of them severely, even profoundly disabled, coming home from Iraq.

Jesus, people, does it take a rocket surgeon to understand this? These are our brothers and sisters. Our sons and daughters. Many of them will simply go without health care because of the callous disregard of the Repugnican thugs who would rather give the richest one percent an unnecessary tax cut than spend one fucking penny on veterans' health care.

Go visit your nearest veterans' hospital and then come back and tell me that our veterans -- who were willing to put themselves in harm's way for us -- are getting the best health care that we can provide.

Those of us who vocally expressed our dissatisfaction way last year about the failure of the Bush maladministration to fully fund health care were shouted down, bypassed, sidelined and ignored. We were voices crying in the wilderness. Now of course we have been proved to be right.

Normally I take great personal satisfaction in being able to say "I told you so!" -- but sadly I am not enjoying this at all.

What the hell is wrong with Donald "North-south-east-and-west-from-there" Rumsfeld, Dickhead Nopulse Cheney and the Smirking Chimp that they can't realize that caring for the wounded is part of the cost of war? Where were they during Vietnam... Uh-oh. Never mind. It just dawned on me -- I just answered my own question.

Sorry. Forget I said anything. And you can go ahead displaying your stupid feel-good yellow "I support our troops" ribbons on the back of your gas-hog pimpsleds while at the same time you're honking your horn at the slow-moving disabled veteran who is dragging himself painfully through the intersection on his way to the Interstate onramp so he can hold up his crude hand-drawn sign that says "Disabled veteran, homeless, unemployed, please help, God bless".

I am sure heaven will have a special place for all of you.