Happy Veterans Day

Veterans Day for me is honoring our veterans by identifying veterans' enemies and allies.

Happy Veterans Day, Tony Leon, attorney Bob Walsh, and everyone at the Veterans Today network.

Happy Veterans Day, Anthony Hardie, Lem Genovese, Wisconsin Vietnam War veterans, Keith Roberts, and the other 26-million veterans.

As for enemies of veterans, think and fight every right-wing think tank, AP writer Allen Breed, and every VA-system bureaucrat who thinks screwing our veterans out of their benefits is their job.

And that goes double for the congressional SuperCommittee now contemplating how badly they want to betray our most recent veterans.

Attempt to Halt Vets' Suit Against VA Fails, DOJ Shot Down

Good news. The class action lawsuit filed against the US Dept of Veterans Affairs (VA) on behalf of veterans proceeds forward. (Jim Cook of Veterans United for Truth is pictured above-right.)

But one can expect the Bush administration to fight the veterans every step of the way.

From the San Francisco Chronicle:

Veterans' advocates can proceed with a lawsuit claiming that the federal government's health care system for troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan illegally denies care and benefits, a federal judge in San Francisco ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Samuel Conti, a conservative jurist and a World War II veteran, rejected Bush administration arguments that civil courts have no authority over the Department of Veterans Affairs' medical decisions or how it handles grievances and claims.

If the plaintiffs can prove their allegations, Conti said, they would show that "thousands of veterans, if not more, are suffering grievous injuries as the result of their inability to procure desperately needed and obviously deserved health care."

For more information: See Veterans for Common Sense et al. v. Nicholson; Case No. C 07 3758, U.S.D.C. (N.D. Cal. 2007).

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Happy Veterans Day Weekend

Update: After cutting veterans' benefits, and quite literally leaving vets to die at Walter Reed, Bush says Dems are bad on vets' issues and he's the hero,
by John Aravosis (DC) ·

Waving a flag and hiding behind the character of the men and women who have served in the armed forces is no way to demonstrate honor and respect.

George W. Bush is a disgrace to the brave and dedicated veterans with whom Bush has very little in common.

Support veterans, and oppose the policies of the Bush administration now.

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