Congress needs our help

Written by: Scott Trimble on Feb 9, 2007 2:58 PM EST

We need to take action to protect our troops.  Congress will not do it without us forcing them.  Not only do we need to bring them home, we need to make sure that we provide for them when they get here.  We have a terrible track record with our veterans so far.  Veterans often have to wait weeks or even months for an appointement at a VA hospital to receive the care they need. And while a small percentage of our population are veterans, 25% of our homeless population are veterans.  Also, veterans' unemployment rate is three times that of the rest of the population.  So much for the training and money for education BS the military puts in its propaganda.

We need to write letters to our Congresspersons urging, no...demanding, a bill that will:

1. take the money Bush would like to spend on continuing and escalating the war, and dividing that up into four funds:

a.  to house, feed, and otherwise protect the troops while they are in Iraq
b. to transport them back home ASAP
c. to add money to the VA budget to help provide medical and psychological care for Iraq war veterans; AND to add money to Medicare (see #2)
d.  to provide financial and resource restitution to Iraq without any military or political strings; and to remove all military bases from Iraq

2. to automatically enroll every American service veteran with combat experience into Medicare system (even Republicans would be hard pressed to argue against that)

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