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Bill Richardson on Healthcare for our Soldiers

Governor Bill Richardson has sent out a worthy email about the disgustingly negligent treatment of our soldiers when they are injured. He hits the nail on the head: we should be ashamed of the way Bush has sent our soldiers to fight in a war with no purpose and no exit strategy, and when they are injured in the course of this war, we do not take proper care of them. When I diaried about my disgust at the way this administration is viewed by the world and how badly Bush behaves abroad, I was accused of celebrating. But celebrating is not what I am doing. I am expressing anger at the embarassment we have to go through with this administration and with the Halliburton Republicans who support war profiteering over the suffering of our soldiers.

I am not endorsing Richardson, but I have highlighted things said and done by John Edwards, Tom Vilsack and Barak Obama. I am now happy to highlight something good being done by Bill Richardson.

Here is Governor Richardson's message:

We should be ashamed. When our government sends our military men and women to war, we enter into a covenant to provide care for the injured and protection for those in harm's way. Our soldiers have been sent into a war we cannot win with insufficient equipment; and now, when they return wounded in the line of duty, our government has failed to provide the quality care our service people deserve. Our government has broken the covenant, and shamefully failed our troops.


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