* Fed contaminated food and water by Haliburton food services subsidiaries...
* Protecting $100,000 a year men (contractors) while they make chump change...
* Ditto private contractors make zillions for doing the same jobs they do...
* Devastating National Guard units to the detriment of home states and peril of citizens...
*** A president who sends soldiers to their deaths, but won't get up off his presidential preogatives and attend a funeral...
The final cut from a thousand tiny cuts in the death knell of respect for soldiers fallen, comes straight from the government that sends them to their deaths.
Near the end of June, Michigan goveror Jennifer Granholm issued a state-wide order to lower flags to half-staff for 24 hours to honor the death of a Michigan soldier, which rekindled the flag lowering fight.
In Iron Mountain, Michigan, the flags were lowered to half-staff in front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars building, but not at a veterans hospital a few blocks away. The Department of Injustice, otherwise knows as the VA, said "Un-uh. Not gonna do it."
This clash between states which want to honor their dead serving in Iraq and the Feds reached such critical mass that Congress passed a measure that would give governors the ability to tell their state, as well a federal authorities, to lower the flags.
It remains to be seen whether Decider Bush will decide to sign the legislation next week. If he decides to pen his signature to it, we can be pretty sure he'll also decide to add a conditional signing statement . Let's face it, while The Veep has deemed it fit to extricate himself from all branches of government, the Decider has decided he IS all three branches of the Federal government.
To the governors' credit, Granholm and more than half the governors have decided to lower their state flags to honor their own warrior heroes who have given their lives for their country since the Iraq war began.
There are many arguments on both sides, but the most sickening is to hear any representative of any group -- governmental or otherwise -- utter an idiotic, contradictory statements as those made by Joyce Doody, executive director of the National Flag Foundaton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Doody conceded that governors have the authority to order flags be flown at half-staff, but her group thinks they should lower the state flag, not the American flag.
Ready for the part where she should have thought three times before going further?
Doody went on to say the flag should remain at full staff in times of conflict (WAR), but they could be lowered when a significant number of soldiers are killed.
I can only think the once those pathetic words had tumbled out of her mouth followed by her brain, her brain recovered sufficiently before going SPLAT on the floor, and she added, "Of course, one is a significant number lost for the family of the fallen soldier."
* Protecting $100,000 a year men (contractors) while they make chump change...
* Ditto private contractors make zillions for doing the same jobs they do...
* Devastating National Guard units to the detriment of home states and peril of citizens...
The final cut from a thousand tiny cuts in the death knell of respect for soldiers fallen, comes straight from the government that sends them to their deaths.
Near the end of June, Michigan goveror Jennifer Granholm issued a state-wide order to lower flags to half-staff for 24 hours to honor the death of a Michigan soldier, which rekindled the flag lowering fight.
In Iron Mountain, Michigan, the flags were lowered to half-staff in front of the Veterans of Foreign Wars building, but not at a veterans hospital a few blocks away. The Department of Injustice, otherwise knows as the VA, said "Un-uh. Not gonna do it."
This clash between states which want to honor their dead serving in Iraq and the Feds reached such critical mass that Congress passed a measure that would give governors the ability to tell their state, as well a federal authorities, to lower the flags.
It remains to be seen whether Decider Bush will decide to sign the legislation next week. If he decides to pen his signature to it, we can be pretty sure he'll also decide to add a conditional signing statement . Let's face it, while The Veep has deemed it fit to extricate himself from all branches of government, the Decider has decided he IS all three branches of the Federal government.
To the governors' credit, Granholm and more than half the governors have decided to lower their state flags to honor their own warrior heroes who have given their lives for their country since the Iraq war began.
There are many arguments on both sides, but the most sickening is to hear any representative of any group -- governmental or otherwise -- utter an idiotic, contradictory statements as those made by Joyce Doody, executive director of the National Flag Foundaton in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Doody conceded that governors have the authority to order flags be flown at half-staff, but her group thinks they should lower the state flag, not the American flag.
Ready for the part where she should have thought three times before going further?
Doody went on to say the flag should remain at full staff in times of conflict (WAR), but they could be lowered when a significant number of soldiers are killed.
I can only think the once those pathetic words had tumbled out of her mouth followed by her brain, her brain recovered sufficiently before going SPLAT on the floor, and she added, "Of course, one is a significant number lost for the family of the fallen soldier."
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