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Hey, remember when liberals were attacked mercilessly (and wrongly) for not “supporting our troops”? Remember all those American flags the Bush Republicans waved maniacally and how GOP Congress members and candidates all insisted they were patriots because they sported those made-in-China flag pins?

America first! Support our troops… until 2012, because now those troops don’t serve their purpose any more.

Via Jon Soltz, co-founder of VoteVets.org and an Iraq War Veteran:

[W]ithout saying the word “veteran,” the budget tells us a lot about what they think about veterans. The budget calls for across the board spending freezes and cuts. If enacted, the Ryan GOP budget would cut $11 billion from veterans spending, or 13 percentfrom what President Obama proposes in his own plan.

It’s unconscionable that they’d do this at a time when so many Iraq veterans have just come home and rely on veterans care. Over 45,000 US troops were wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan, and more will come who will rely on VA services, on top of veterans of other wars and eras who depend on the VA. But, this shortsightedness isn’t new.

Republicans couldn’t get enough of shock and awe. Now they’re more like a crock of blahblahblah.

“Never forget”…  I guess they forgot.

Please read the whole post here.