Disposable Troops

U.S. Soldiers Used as Guinea Pigs, Now Denied Care

“Support” the troops is something that doesn’t actually happen. It’s a propaganda slogan conjured up by some of the most evil, despicable PR assholes the society has ever produced.  In fact the US government sees its soldiers as disposable components that it can ignore after the part breaks.

It even conducts experiments on them…

At least 70,000 troops are covered by a class-action suit claiming that these experiments caused cancers, emphysema and other serious illnesses. What they want seems understandable: to be told exactly what substances they were given and how risky they were, to be relieved of any confidentiality agreements they signed during the testing, and to receive care for any conditions that resulted.

NOT Supporting Their Own Troops

Nearly half of these veterans have waited more than five years for coverage, and one document indicated that nearly one-third of those who had been waiting have died.

Whistleblowers in the Department of Veterans Affairs

“VA leadership has repeatedly failed to respond to concerns raised by whistleblowers about patient care at VA,” Davis said in prepared testimony. “Despite the best efforts of truly committed employees at HEC and the Veterans Health Administration, who have risked their careers to stand up for veterans, management at all levels ignored or retaliated against them for exposing the truth.”

Few noticed that the first week of the Iraq War, in 2003, the Rethugs slipped through CUTS to the Veterans Administration. Even as they were manufacturing thousands of new casualties, they were cutting the medical funding for their own troops. I was shocked at the time at the brazen, disgusting, calculated evil. But that’s pretty much business as usual.

The Cure (short)