said the living embodiment of National Shame... feh
Posted on 5/29/2012, 2:38:24 AM by Steelfish
Barack Obama Condemns America's Treatment of Vietnam Veterans As 'National Shame' President Barack Obama called America's treatment of its Vietnam veterans "a disgrace", as he vowed that soldiers returning from the unpopular wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would not suffer the same dishonour.
By Raf Sanchez 28 May 2012 Speaking before a monument to the 60,000 Americans killed in Vietnam, Mr Obama said the war was "one of the most painful chapters in our history", especially "how we treated our troops who served there."
"You were often blamed for a war you didn’t start, when you should have been commended for serving your country with valor," he told an audience of veterans on Memorial Day.
"You came home and sometimes were denigrated, when you should have been celebrated. It was a national shame, a disgrace that should have never happened."
He announced that the US would begin a 13-year programme of honouring the three million Americans who served in the conflict.
The words were spoken to former Vietnam troops, many now in their seventies, but will have echoes for younger soldiers coming back from Middle Eastern wars for which the American public has long lost enthusiasm.
The invasion of Iraq, which Mr Obama has often called "the wrong war", remains deeply controversial, both for the Bush administrations's promise of finding weapons of mass destruction and the 4,500 US troops killed.
Meanwhile, the ongoing war in Afghanistan, which Mr Obama has pledged to end by 2015, is opposed by up to thirds of the American public, according to recent polls.
"When our troops return from Afghanistan, America will give this entire 9/11 Generation the welcome home they deserve," Mr Obama said.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
"The invasion of Iraq, which Mr Obama has often called "the wrong war"
said the living embodiment of National Shame... feh
Phuk him. He didn’t even mention WHY or WHO they were fighting, today. Natch.
Desperation.
So says the guy who cavorted with the people who mistreated Vietnam vets.
I don’t know which is worse. When Obama skips Memorial Day to go golfing, or when he goes to a war memorial to give one of his speeches.
This makes me sick. Which side were you on, Obama? Which side were all your Communist friends and relations on?
Obama is covering his red ass because of future revelations about how his administration has treated many Iraq/Afghanistan veterans, and because he has/had so many communists in his administration it began to look like a North Vietnamese/Red Chinese Politburo.
Obama: the man of unlimited hypocrisy and treason!
And yet his friend and enabler, Scum Ayers wipes his filthy feet on the American flag, and is in general, a consummately talentless, traitor bastard.
Panderama.
His mentor and ghostwriter said blowing up buildings in opposition to the war wasn’t enough.
Hypocrisy to the level it borders on the ironic.
Makes you wanna vomit, no?
It IS a shame. These brave men made a great sacrifice and they deserved better treatment.
If I had been around at the time I would’ve shown my appreciation and gratitude.
This from Bath-House Barry who wanted all veterans to pay for their own medical care.
Sodomite-Soetoro.
A Vietnam war draft evader and son of an anti-Vietnam war activist, represents our side in this argument.
It’s going to be a long year.
perhaps we’ll see an Executive Order outfitting the White House mens rooms with Jane Fonda urinal targets?
And this is the guy who praised Sen. Kerry when he delivered the keynote speech of endorsement. We have a filthy biased media unwilling to point these out.
absolutely...
Cardinal4 Condemns Baraq Hussein Obama as a National Shame..
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