Comments on: Non-support

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 14:58:00 +0000

Democrats in Congress would be a nice start, as an old sergeant once said: Republicans buy toys – Democrats pay the boys.

By: cookiejill

cookiejill — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:55:08 +0000

It’s just so heartbreaking. Really. General Clark will be out here in Santa Barbara this week and hopefully we can get an idea of what we, as average americans can do to help our troops.

Thanks for the nod.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 04:09:27 +0000

Steve, they would be in pretty good shape somewhere else, as down here its the E-2s with families that are having problems, but San Diego County is an extremely expensive place to live, and there aren’t that many apartments up by Pendleton, so they have to live well away from the base and the less expensive services that exist there.

If the military would build base housing for these people, most of the problems would see improvement, but Rumsfeld wants everything outsourced.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:43:30 +0000

This is truly ugly.

That our troops are sent to war based on an out-and-out lie is deplorable. That their families are suffering genuine privation is obscene.

Many American families are just one financial misfortune away from total ruin, but most of those families are not forcibly separated from each other… some members shot at or targeted with IEDs, other members scraping to get by at a level that can only be called poverty. It doesn’t get much uglier than that.

Perhaps it’s not the whole of DoD, but rather just Rumsfeld, that deserves to be named the NME.

(Speaking of acronyms spoken aloud, once long ago, on the last day of a somewhat unpleasant contract, I was ordered to change the splash screen of an application to bear the title “Cardiovascular Risk Assessment Program.” I have to admit I did so without a peep. I am a bad person!)