This has already been posted about in a number of place, but apparently the US Army is attempting to recover some of the bonuses it paid to soldiers who were injured in combat seriously enough to not be able to fulfill their terms of enlistment.
As noted at the link, Dem Congressman Jason Altmire has already introduced legislation to prevent this practice, which should never have occurred in the first place. I'm sure by challenging the army on this, he will shortly beheld up as yet another Democrat who "doesn't support the troops".
After all, once they are severely wounded and can't hold a gun or take a bullet anymore they're no longer "troops" but civilians, so Conservatives don't feel the need to pretend to care about them anymore.
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I'd say it isn't a Conservative or Liberal problem...more of an institutional issue.
To say that Conservatives are behind this practice & don't care about the injured troops is nonsense.
Of course it is, and I will freely concede the point.
Mind you, it's also nonsense to claim repeatedly "Democrats don't support the troops" when what they really don't support is the manner it which the troops are being utilized by the current administration. The two are not synonymous.
The actual greater purpose of the post, which was intentionally over the top, was to point out how stupid such memes are. I don't really think conservatives don't care about wounded soldiers either ... but that meme is going to be developed (I've seen a few instances already), and after years of painting the Dems with "don't support the troops", conservatives can't exactly start crying about the way the game is played, unless they are willing to change too.
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