Perhaps my favorite newspaper columnist,  James Carroll of the Boston Globe, writes this week about the motivation behind the neglect of the wounded from Iraq and Afghanistan.  Truly sickening.  This administration seems to be nothing more than acting like they’re running a country when their true aim is doing business and scratching the backs of their rich , corrupt business partners. And they have the gall to think this won’t be noticed,  that they can “posture” their way through.  Fox News and their less flagrant brethren scattered throughout the news media are one reason they’ve gotten as far as they have.

Of all of the lies that the Bush administration has promoted, none is more egregious than that it “supports the troops.” Unlike the others, that lie holds. In its name, Bush vetoed the war appropriations bill last week, as if the welfare of young and vulnerable soldiers is his chief concern. American soldiers are pawns in the game the president is playing with history. No longer capable of pretending that national security requires American presence in Iraq, Bush is simply refusing to acknowledge that what he did was wrong. He’s like a child insisting that his arm is broken, when it isn’t. In Bush’s case, the fake dressing for which he longs are human lives.

Source: The disappearance of war-broken soldiers – The Boston Globe