Who Really Made the Revolution?: "Now I agree that veterans have been shortchanged, but not because they are disrespected by the general public. It’s this war-happy administration which tried to cut veteran’s benefits and underfund veteran's hospitals, even as men and women were coming home from Iraq hideously maimed or mind sick from stress. The philosophy of the Bush administration is talk big and carry a twig, aka fight wars on the cheap. It hasn’t worked in Afghanistan, where the Taliban are resurgent, or in Iraq, which has proved the shamefully humiliated Gen. Shinseki absolutely correct on necessary troop levels. (To obtain a correct figure on troop levels (and war costs) in Iraq, you have to add in all the recently privatized, sub-contracted once-military functions and count not only their employees in Iraq, but also all the back up people, not to mention lobbyists, in the US and elsewhere.) In the end, Congressional Democrats shamed their Republican colleagues into upping the money for veterans in the impending Federal budget."

(Via WhirledView.)