GEORGE  (CONT)

tem for wounded vets, rather than appointing yet another jive Washington commission, with all the same crowd of jive Washington commissioners, to "look into it" and report back a year later with some anemic recommendations that you'll ignore anyhow? When will you add money to the budget to provide adequate care for these folks you call heros, rather than stealing it from them in order to stuff the pockets of another crony contractor? When will you risk instituting a draft in order to put enough soldiers on the ground such that you don't drive into the ground the few soldiers that you keep sending back and back and back?

When will you, in short, live up to your own revoltingly cynical rhetoric and start truly supporting the troops, rather than hiding behind them?

When, indeed.

On the eve of his illegal and completely unprovoked invasion of another sovereign state, the honor midget known as George Bush had this to say: "I urge every member of the Iraqi military and intelligence services: If war comes, do not fight for a dying regime that is not worth your own life."

Sadly, those words are far more relevant today for the soldiers of a different dying regime, led by a different thug, attacking a different country.

But one thing remains the same.

Master Bush may not hand you a plastic key to heaven manufactured in Islamabad before he feeds your body to his insatiable war machine, but so deep and so wide are the lies that he might as well be doing so.

Regardless, it is definitely not worth your own life.

David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York.

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