Why I fucking hate the Bush Junta: Reason #748

[NightTrain]

I just heard on "Free Speech Radio News" that a court settlement of $653 million was granted to veterans of Operation Desert Scam, er, Storm who became POWs and were tortured in Iraq in 1991. The money was to come out of Iraqi assets that are frozen in the United States.

Well, guess what? Ashcroft's Justice Department appealed the ruling! They claimed that since Bush has removed Iraq from the U.S.' list of states that sponsor terrorism, those soldiers are no longer entitled to the settlement. And the DOJ won the appeal!

Bush subsequently proclaimed that the $653 million would instead go toward the so-called "reconstruction of Iraq." That's right, folks. U.S. soldiers who fought and were tortured in Iraq ostensibly to protect our freedom now are being fucked out of money that's rightly theirs so it can go to Halliburton.

Now, how many CUnts and freepers do you think will complain that this is a piss-poor example of supporting our troops?

[doni_georgia]

1. About the same number that complain

about the shit treatment veterans get at veteran hospitals.

[liberalhistorian]

2. Or the wholesale slashing of their benefits,

or charging them for their food while they recover in a hospital, or forcibly extending their military time, or not giving them even the basic equipment they need, or not permitting them to say anything at all against Shrub, and on and on and on.

[Taverner]

3. Agreed but not sure using the 'c' word

will please all around here. Especially with the outrage expressed with the 'B' word

[NightTrain]

4. It's what we call those losers at CU (Conservative Ungerground).

I was operating under the assumption that people would get the reference!

[Taverner]

5. I understood :)

I just know how these things are and that others may feel completely different about the use of these words...

[put out]

7. Oh, I do get the reference. Please think of another term.

Please. To many, that word is a very hostile and pejorative way to refer to a part of female anatomy; almost never said admiringly (your use is a good example). I don't wish to have any of my parts associated in any way with those idiot dipshits.

[NightTrain]

8. It was all I could think of, but I'm certainly open to suggestions.

I don't wish to alienate my fellow DUers, so if y'all can think of an alternative to my nickname for the CU crowd, please suggest it!

[put out]

9. Sorry I was snippy with you.

You can swear like a sailor around me and do all the sex threads you like (but the OTHERS wink wink nudge nudge won't tolerate it) but gosh, I hate that word, especially if it links girly-parts to the neo-copycats who shall not be mentioned.

Thanks for your consideration. I'll put on my thinking cap.

Should I go to that site for inspiration? Or will I go completely insane?

[baldguy]

6. Only 748?

I wouldv'e thought the reasons would be in the millions