Right, he isn't even really throwing lip service at it, he is a one trick pony- anti-war. Hell, how do you know that even if he gives you some politician promises about helping vets, he won't just bail on it when it gets too hard like he did the USMC. He hasn't done jack s((( for Vets and I bet those folks with 'support the troops' bumper stickers and 'patriotic Republicans' you disparage do far more than Kokesh could dream. While Kokesh is playing around with Code Pink, those folks you disparage are giving hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups like the Wounded Warrior project. You have FReepers every single day visiting Walter Reed and volunteering to work with the vets. It was a group of private citizens who created the best rehabilitation center for Vets down near Ft. Hood- all done with private funding. All of this will Kokesh hangs from rafters and tries to defame Conservative groups by putting up phony racist posters. Go ahead and support your Code Pinko/Move On poster child.
He’s been one of the few that has been steadily beating the drum about trauma and other issues involving veterans.
Those issues go beyond the physically wounded that you find at Walter Reed, specifically the individuals with major trauma, difficulty readjusting back to normal life. Kokesh has raised funds for counseling and finding assistance for many of these folks that have been swept under the rug.
Once again, I’m an Iraq veteran and unless you’re missing a limb or dead, people generally don’t give a damn about you. All the “thank you for your service” platitudes don’t mean a thing if we’re letting down these people once they’re done with their military service.
I look back at my unit and while half of them have solid lives, the other half are struggling with regular life, struggling to readjust, having trouble maintaining employment....etc, and when they look for help, they find that very little exists out there.
I’ll trust a former soldier like Kokesh to look out more for veterans than another chickenhawk type like Mullins who seems to see soldiers as pawns in a grand game and not real human people. War has many consequences that go beyond the battlefield and there aren’t many in government who seem to recognize that.