A story in the Washington Post indicates how this administration is all about appearances. 

Once celebrated by his government, Cruz feels defeated by its bureaucracy. He no longer has the stamina to appeal the VA decision, or to make the Army correct the sloppy errors in his medical records or amend his personnel file so it actually lists his combat awards.

After being all smiles and accolades in awarding Army Spec. Jeans Cruz medals of valor for his role in capturing Suddam Hussein, this account exposes the dark “underbelly” of this group of charlatans who continue to manipulate the media and lay it on thick with the nationalistic platitudes while cynically going on their merry way,  wasting money on themselves, their “rewards” to “players” within their movement,  and their ultimately empty and non-existent actual support of all these veterans.  Just like their “faith-based” initiative*,  it is all empty posturing,  with no intention of actually funding the efforts.

What makes this additionally sickening is this President,  who ,  as a privileged and notoriously irresponsible and shallow son of a politically powerful family,  chose to ditch even the safety of his privileged National Guard appointment and go AWOL to do whatever he wanted.  He hasn’t the slightest notion of the trauma that his criminal neglect and delusional ideology have wrought. 

What’s also troubling is how much this kind of stories exposes the hypocrisy of their using the “support our troops” and “Not hurting the troops”.  Shameful.   

The War Inside – washingtonpost.com

* David Kuo,  who bends over backwards to find opportunities to compliment or congratulate Bush whenever he can,  could only conclude that the “faith-based” initiative was pure posturing;  never given  serious consideration as a program the White House was truly interested in. (Kuo wrote the book “Tempting Faith”,  which brought him immediate ire from the White House and accusations of “liberal spy” from the Right)