Is This The Way Bush Supports Troops?

All we hear from King George and his lapdogs in Congress are the chants of "Support Our Troops". Well I have to ask, Why does King George and his buddy Sec. of Defense Dumbsfeld hate the troops? From Common Dreams we find out that The Pentagon wants to cut the pay of its 148,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, who are already contending with guerrilla-style attacks, homesickness and 120- degree-plus heat. Now isn't that just beautiful? And of course King George and his lackeys in Congress find it much more important to take their vacations rather than deal with this issue. Unless Congress and President Bush take quick action when Congress returns after Labor Day, the uniformed Americans in Iraq and the 9,000 in Afghanistan will lose a pay increase approved last April of $75 a month in "imminent danger pay" and $150 a month in "family separation allowances." Of course the WH ducked the issue referred questions about the administration's view on the pay cut to the Pentagon report. Needless to say this has military families furious. "Every person they see is a threat. They have no idea who is an enemy or who is a friend," said Larry Syverson, 54, of Richmond, Va., whose two sons, Brandon, 31, and Bryce, 25, are serving in Iraq. Syverson appeared with other military families at a Washington, D.C., news conference to publicize efforts to bring the troops home. "You can get shot in the head when you go to buy a Coke," added Syverson, referring to an incident at a Baghdad University cafeteria on July 6 when an Army sergeant was shot and killed after buying a soda. And one mother who fears for her son's safety in Iraq says Susan Schuman of Shelburne Falls, Mass., said her son, Army National Guard Sgt. Justin Schuman, had told her "it's really scary" serving in Samarra, a town about 20 miles from Saddam Hussein's ancestral hometown of Tikrit. Schuman, who like Syverson has become active in a group of military families that want service personnel pulled out of Iraq, said the pay cut possibility didn't surprise her. "It's all part of the lie of the Bush administration, that they say they support our troops," she said. It is rare indead for the Army Times to blast the Pentagon, the White House and the Congress. But in this instance, the paper has said in recent editorials that Congress was wrong to make the pay raises temporary, and the Pentagon is wrong to call for a rollback. "The bottom line: If the Bush administration felt in April that conditions in Iraq and Afghanistan warranted increases in danger pay and family separation allowances, it cannot plausibly argue that the higher rates are not still warranted today," the paper said in an editorial in its current edition. Oh yes all is well in Iraq according to Dickhead Cheney.