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Janett_Reno · 11-12-2007, 10:52 PM

More vets supporting Hillary.

These other Vets are also standing by Hillary:

New National Military Veterans Co-Chairs are:

General Wesley Clark, Ret., Four Star General, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO

Lt. General Joseph Ballard, Ret., Three Star General, Chief of Engineers and Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. General Robert Gard, Ret., Three Star General, President Emeritus of the Monterey Institute for International Studies.

Lt. General Donald Kerrick, Ret., Three Star General, Deputy National Security Advisor, Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Lt. General Frederick Vollrath, Ret., Three Star General, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Headquarters Department of the Army

Major General Roger Blunt, Ret., Two Star General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Last Command: 97th Army Reserve Command (ARCOM), Ft. Meade
Chairman, President, & CEO of Blunt Enterprises, LLC

Major General Edward L. Correa Jr., Ret., Two Star General, Adjutant General of Hawaii

Major General Paul Eaton, Ret., Two Star General, Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq, Commanding General

Rear Admiral Connie Mariano, MD, Ret., Two Star Rear Admiral, Navy White House Physician for three Presidents

Major General Paul D. Monroe, Jr., Ret., Two Star General, Adjutant General California National Guard

Major General Robert Scales, Ret., Two Star General, President and CEO of Walden University, Commandant of the United States Army War College,

Rear Admiral Alan Steinman, M.D., Ret., Two Star Coast Guard Admiral, Past Director of Health and Safety of the Coast Guard

Rear Admiral David Stone, Ret., Two Star Rear Admiral, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration President & CEO, Alacrity Homeland Group

Brigadier General Michael Dunn, Ret., One Star General, Clinical leader of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Interoperability Project. Commanded the Walter Reed Health Care System in Washington, DC

Brigadier General Belisario Flores, Ret., Assistant Adjutant General, Texas Air National Guard, Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote, Ret., One Star General

Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr, Ret., One Star General, Commanding General, Northern Area Command, California National Guard

Brigadier General Virgil Richard, Ret., One Star General, Recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal

Brigadier General Preston Taylor, Ret., One Star General, Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training

Brigadier General Dr. Jack Yeager, Ret., One Star General, Assistant Adjutant General of West Virginia

Honorable Anthony Brown, Veteran, Maryland Lt. Governor, Past member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Served with distinction in Baghdad, Fallujah, Kirkuk and Basra, Iraq.

Honorable Harold Naughton, Massachusetts State House Representative, Veteran, US Army Reserves, JAG, 8 months in Multinational Force Iraq

Honorable Steven Hobbs, Washington State Senator, Veteran, Tours of duty in Iraq and Kosovo with the US Army and Army National Guard

Mr. Roscoe Brown, Veteran, Tuskegee Airman, WWII

Honorable Louis Caldera, Veteran, Secretary of the Army, President of University of New Mexico

Honorable Edward Chow, Jr., Veteran, Past Vice President of Vietnam Veterans of America, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Veterans Administration

Honorable Jimmy Dean, Veteran, Past National Commander of the American Legion

Honorable Ron Dellums, Mayor of Oakland, CA, Former Chair of the House Armed Services Committee

Honorable Herschel Gober, Veteran, Acting Secretary & Deputy Secretary, Veterans Affairs

Honorable Steven Honigman, Veteran, Navy Retired, Former Naval General Counsel (Iraq)

Mr. Thomas Keefe, Veteran, President of The Keefe Group, Nationally known Veterans Advocate

Honorable Robert Jones, Veteran, Deputy Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA Affairs

Honorable Robert Perreault, Director, Medical Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs

Joseph "Jake" Simmons IV, Veteran, Commander, White House Communications Agency

Honorable Todd Weiler, Veteran, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs

They Join Current National Co-Chairs:

U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, Veteran, World War II Combat Veteran, Recipient: Medal of Honor

U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel, Veteran, US Army, 1948-52

U.S. Congressman Joe Sestak, Veteran, Retired US Navy Admiral, Commanded Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, Afghanistan

U.S. Congressman Ed Towns, Veteran, US Army, 1956-58

U.S. Congressman Jose Serrano, Veteran, US Army, 1964-66

U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey, Veteran, US Navy 1956-59

Honorable Togo West, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of the Army, North Carolina Native

Lt. General Claudia Kennedy, Ret., Three Star General, First Woman in the U.S. Army to Hold a Three Star Rank, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence

General George Buskirk, Ret., Adjutant General, Indiana Army and Air National Guard,

Honorable Eleanor Glynn Kjellman, New Hampshire State House Representative, Veteran, US Air Force Officer, Son served in Iraq

Mr. Joe Wynn, Veteran, US Air Force, Viet Nam, Leader of the National Association of Black Veterans, President, Vets Group

Mr. Bill White, President, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, Nationally Known Veterans Advocate
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The list will grow and you will see who the real person and party is that stands up for right and fights wrong and doesn't sell out for money. Even the mess this adm has us in, Hillary will get the dollar from free falling, jobs back in the USA, illegal imagration solved and fixed and not just talked about and swept under the table like the neocons do, stop the big spending neocons like pouring money out of a boot and put money back in the United States. The neocons care less for children and health care and this will be addressed and our wonderful young men and women of the usa will again sign up for the military as the neocons is thinking of a draft to get more to join. Just more wish washy thinking by the neocons. Under Hillary we will be strong and our military will be stronger than ever and will be ready if it is needed and the days of going into a country because of "oil" will be done. Thank goodness the American people will and can vote the neocons out before much longer.
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More proud moments of the neocons..

Bush Administration cuts $1.5 billion from military family housing. The Bush Administration cut $1.5 billion for military family housing, despite Department of Defense statistics showing that in 83,000 barracks and 128,860 family housing units across the country are below standard. ("Nothing But Lip Service," Army Times, June 30, 2003; "House Appropriations Committee Approves $59.2 Million for Ft. Hood," U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards Press Release, June 17, 2003)

Bush Republicans support millionaires instead of military veterans. Bush allies in Congress stopped efforts to scale back the tax cut for the nation's millionaires by just five percent - a loss of just $4,780 for the year - in order to restore this funding for military family housing. ("The Tax Debate Nobody Hears About," Washington Post, June 17, 2003)

Bush Administration underfunded veterans' health care by $2 billion. The Bush Administration's 2004 budget underfunded veterans' health care by nearly $2 billion. ("Vets Health Low on Bush's Priority List," The Hill, September 17, 2003; "Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003; U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs, September 2002)

Bush Administration proposal would end health care benefits for 173,000 veterans. More than 173,000 veterans across the country would be cut off from health care because of Bush Administration proposed budget cuts and its plan requiring enrollment fees and higher out-of-pocket costs. ("Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003)

Bush Administration budget cuts force more than 200,000 veterans to wait for health care. Over 200,000 United States veterans have to wait more than six months for a medical visit because of health care shortages. ("VA Health Care Funding Alert," Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Press Release, January 31, 2003)

Bush Administration opposed plan to give National Guard and Reserve Members access to health insurance. Despite the war efforts of America's National Guard and Reserve Members, the Bush Administration announced in October 2003 its formal opposition to give the 1.2 million Guard and Reserve members the right to buy health care coverage through the Pentagon's health plan. One out of every five Guard members lacks health insurance. ("Bush Opposes Health Plan for National Guard," Gannett News Service, October 23, 2003)

Bush Administration cuts $172 million allotted for educating the children of military personnel. The Bush Administration's 2004 budget cut $172 million of impact aid funding. Impact aid funding assists school districts by making up for lost local tax revenue from tax-exempt property, such as military bases. These education cuts will especially affect school-age children of troops serving in Iraq who reside on military bases. ("Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003)

Bush Administration tax cut denies military families increase in child tax credit. The families of 262,000 children of military personnel do not receive the child tax credit increase because the plan fails to cover taxpaying families with incomes between $10,500 and $26,625. According to The Washington Post, the House version of the Bush Administration plan "wouldn't help many of those serving in Iraq." One solider who will not benefit is Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson, the soldier and single mother who was wounded twice in the same convoy as Jessica Lynch. ("Ex-POW's Family Accuses Army of Double Standard on Benefit," Washington Post, October 24, 2003; "The New Senate Child Credit Legislation - What It Does and Does Not Do," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 25, 2003; "Whose Child Is Left Behind," Children's Defense Fund, July 23, 2003)

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Cheney gets 5 deferments. W goes awol.

Date: 08/19/88 Houston Chronicle article by R. G. Ratliffe
When running for governor, George W. Bush portrayed himself to voters as a great fighter pilot. "Asked how he got into the Air National Guard, Bush said, 'They could sense I was going to be one of the great pilots of all time.'"

Among the questionable claims in Mr. Bush's autobiography is that he tried to volunteer for service in Vietnam "to relieve active-duty pilots." He did not volunteer for service in Vietnam; in fact, he failed to report for duty in his Air National Guard Unit and skipped off to Alabama to work on a political campaign.

In his book, Mr. Bush offers a lovely-sounding (but bald-faced) lie to describe his F-102 fighter pilot experience: "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years," he writes, but in fact he was suspended from flight duty in August 1972 and didn't fly at all for the last two years of his service. (He also didn't show up for duty.)

Further along in his autobiography, Mr. Bush says his military service "gave me respect for the chain of command." Well, that is an odd way to describe ignoring two direct orders to appear for duty. He was then assigned to a disciplinary unit in Denver, and he didn't show up for that either.

These big military neocons is a joke. They really did alot in the military. Now Rudy? Rudy who?

11-12-2007, 10:52 PM	#2
Janett_Reno Platinum Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 2,150	More vets supporting Hillary. These other Vets are also standing by Hillary: New National Military Veterans Co-Chairs are: General Wesley Clark, Ret., Four Star General, Supreme Allied Commander, NATO Lt. General Joseph Ballard, Ret., Three Star General, Chief of Engineers and Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Lt. General Robert Gard, Ret., Three Star General, President Emeritus of the Monterey Institute for International Studies. Lt. General Donald Kerrick, Ret., Three Star General, Deputy National Security Advisor, Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lt. General Frederick Vollrath, Ret., Three Star General, Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Headquarters Department of the Army Major General Roger Blunt, Ret., Two Star General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Last Command: 97th Army Reserve Command (ARCOM), Ft. Meade Chairman, President, & CEO of Blunt Enterprises, LLC Major General Edward L. Correa Jr., Ret., Two Star General, Adjutant General of Hawaii Major General Paul Eaton, Ret., Two Star General, Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq, Commanding General Rear Admiral Connie Mariano, MD, Ret., Two Star Rear Admiral, Navy White House Physician for three Presidents Major General Paul D. Monroe, Jr., Ret., Two Star General, Adjutant General California National Guard Major General Robert Scales, Ret., Two Star General, President and CEO of Walden University, Commandant of the United States Army War College, Rear Admiral Alan Steinman, M.D., Ret., Two Star Coast Guard Admiral, Past Director of Health and Safety of the Coast Guard Rear Admiral David Stone, Ret., Two Star Rear Admiral, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration President & CEO, Alacrity Homeland Group Brigadier General Michael Dunn, Ret., One Star General, Clinical leader of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's Interoperability Project. Commanded the Walter Reed Health Care System in Washington, DC Brigadier General Belisario Flores, Ret., Assistant Adjutant General, Texas Air National Guard, Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote, Ret., One Star General Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr, Ret., One Star General, Commanding General, Northern Area Command, California National Guard Brigadier General Virgil Richard, Ret., One Star General, Recipient of the Distinguished Service Medal Brigadier General Preston Taylor, Ret., One Star General, Assistant Secretary for Veterans Employment and Training Brigadier General Dr. Jack Yeager, Ret., One Star General, Assistant Adjutant General of West Virginia Honorable Anthony Brown, Veteran, Maryland Lt. Governor, Past member of the Maryland House of Delegates, Served with distinction in Baghdad, Fallujah, Kirkuk and Basra, Iraq. Honorable Harold Naughton, Massachusetts State House Representative, Veteran, US Army Reserves, JAG, 8 months in Multinational Force Iraq Honorable Steven Hobbs, Washington State Senator, Veteran, Tours of duty in Iraq and Kosovo with the US Army and Army National Guard Mr. Roscoe Brown, Veteran, Tuskegee Airman, WWII Honorable Louis Caldera, Veteran, Secretary of the Army, President of University of New Mexico Honorable Edward Chow, Jr., Veteran, Past Vice President of Vietnam Veterans of America, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Veterans Administration Honorable Jimmy Dean, Veteran, Past National Commander of the American Legion Honorable Ron Dellums, Mayor of Oakland, CA, Former Chair of the House Armed Services Committee Honorable Herschel Gober, Veteran, Acting Secretary & Deputy Secretary, Veterans Affairs Honorable Steven Honigman, Veteran, Navy Retired, Former Naval General Counsel (Iraq) Mr. Thomas Keefe, Veteran, President of The Keefe Group, Nationally known Veterans Advocate Honorable Robert Jones, Veteran, Deputy Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA Affairs Honorable Robert Perreault, Director, Medical Administration, Department of Veterans Affairs Joseph "Jake" Simmons IV, Veteran, Commander, White House Communications Agency Honorable Todd Weiler, Veteran, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs They Join Current National Co-Chairs: U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye, Veteran, World War II Combat Veteran, Recipient: Medal of Honor U.S. Congressman Charlie Rangel, Veteran, US Army, 1948-52 U.S. Congressman Joe Sestak, Veteran, Retired US Navy Admiral, Commanded Aircraft Carrier Battle Group, Afghanistan U.S. Congressman Ed Towns, Veteran, US Army, 1956-58 U.S. Congressman Jose Serrano, Veteran, US Army, 1964-66 U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey, Veteran, US Navy 1956-59 Honorable Togo West, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of the Army, North Carolina Native Lt. General Claudia Kennedy, Ret., Three Star General, First Woman in the U.S. Army to Hold a Three Star Rank, Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence General George Buskirk, Ret., Adjutant General, Indiana Army and Air National Guard, Honorable Eleanor Glynn Kjellman, New Hampshire State House Representative, Veteran, US Air Force Officer, Son served in Iraq Mr. Joe Wynn, Veteran, US Air Force, Viet Nam, Leader of the National Association of Black Veterans, President, Vets Group Mr. Bill White, President, Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund, Nationally Known Veterans Advocate --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The list will grow and you will see who the real person and party is that stands up for right and fights wrong and doesn't sell out for money. Even the mess this adm has us in, Hillary will get the dollar from free falling, jobs back in the USA, illegal imagration solved and fixed and not just talked about and swept under the table like the neocons do, stop the big spending neocons like pouring money out of a boot and put money back in the United States. The neocons care less for children and health care and this will be addressed and our wonderful young men and women of the usa will again sign up for the military as the neocons is thinking of a draft to get more to join. Just more wish washy thinking by the neocons. Under Hillary we will be strong and our military will be stronger than ever and will be ready if it is needed and the days of going into a country because of "oil" will be done. Thank goodness the American people will and can vote the neocons out before much longer. ---------------------------------------------------------- More proud moments of the neocons.. Bush Administration cuts $1.5 billion from military family housing. The Bush Administration cut $1.5 billion for military family housing, despite Department of Defense statistics showing that in 83,000 barracks and 128,860 family housing units across the country are below standard. ("Nothing But Lip Service," Army Times, June 30, 2003; "House Appropriations Committee Approves $59.2 Million for Ft. Hood," U.S. Rep. Chet Edwards Press Release, June 17, 2003) Bush Republicans support millionaires instead of military veterans. Bush allies in Congress stopped efforts to scale back the tax cut for the nation's millionaires by just five percent - a loss of just $4,780 for the year - in order to restore this funding for military family housing. ("The Tax Debate Nobody Hears About," Washington Post, June 17, 2003) Bush Administration underfunded veterans' health care by $2 billion. The Bush Administration's 2004 budget underfunded veterans' health care by nearly $2 billion. ("Vets Health Low on Bush's Priority List," The Hill, September 17, 2003; "Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003; U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs, September 2002) Bush Administration proposal would end health care benefits for 173,000 veterans. More than 173,000 veterans across the country would be cut off from health care because of Bush Administration proposed budget cuts and its plan requiring enrollment fees and higher out-of-pocket costs. ("Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003) Bush Administration budget cuts force more than 200,000 veterans to wait for health care. Over 200,000 United States veterans have to wait more than six months for a medical visit because of health care shortages. ("VA Health Care Funding Alert," Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States Press Release, January 31, 2003) Bush Administration opposed plan to give National Guard and Reserve Members access to health insurance. Despite the war efforts of America's National Guard and Reserve Members, the Bush Administration announced in October 2003 its formal opposition to give the 1.2 million Guard and Reserve members the right to buy health care coverage through the Pentagon's health plan. One out of every five Guard members lacks health insurance. ("Bush Opposes Health Plan for National Guard," Gannett News Service, October 23, 2003) Bush Administration cuts $172 million allotted for educating the children of military personnel. The Bush Administration's 2004 budget cut $172 million of impact aid funding. Impact aid funding assists school districts by making up for lost local tax revenue from tax-exempt property, such as military bases. These education cuts will especially affect school-age children of troops serving in Iraq who reside on military bases. ("Support for Troops Questioned," Washington Post, June 17, 2003) Bush Administration tax cut denies military families increase in child tax credit. The families of 262,000 children of military personnel do not receive the child tax credit increase because the plan fails to cover taxpaying families with incomes between $10,500 and $26,625. According to The Washington Post, the House version of the Bush Administration plan "wouldn't help many of those serving in Iraq." One solider who will not benefit is Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson, the soldier and single mother who was wounded twice in the same convoy as Jessica Lynch. ("Ex-POW's Family Accuses Army of Double Standard on Benefit," Washington Post, October 24, 2003; "The New Senate Child Credit Legislation - What It Does and Does Not Do," Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, June 25, 2003; "Whose Child Is Left Behind," Children's Defense Fund, July 23, 2003) ------------------------------- Cheney gets 5 deferments. W goes awol. Date: 08/19/88 Houston Chronicle article by R. G. Ratliffe When running for governor, George W. Bush portrayed himself to voters as a great fighter pilot. "Asked how he got into the Air National Guard, Bush said, 'They could sense I was going to be one of the great pilots of all time.'" Among the questionable claims in Mr. Bush's autobiography is that he tried to volunteer for service in Vietnam "to relieve active-duty pilots." He did not volunteer for service in Vietnam; in fact, he failed to report for duty in his Air National Guard Unit and skipped off to Alabama to work on a political campaign. In his book, Mr. Bush offers a lovely-sounding (but bald-faced) lie to describe his F-102 fighter pilot experience: "I continued flying with my unit for the next several years," he writes, but in fact he was suspended from flight duty in August 1972 and didn't fly at all for the last two years of his service. (He also didn't show up for duty.) Further along in his autobiography, Mr. Bush says his military service "gave me respect for the chain of command." Well, that is an odd way to describe ignoring two direct orders to appear for duty. He was then assigned to a disciplinary unit in Denver, and he didn't show up for that either. These big military neocons is a joke. They really did alot in the military. Now Rudy? Rudy who?