We should be ashamed.

I am absolutely blown away by how the military and other government entities have blatantly spun their own soldiers misfortunes in warmongering public relations material. The The Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearings chaired by Henry Waxman regarding the fabricated Pat Tillman and Jessica Lynch stories is busting this scam wide open.

I am appalled that the same people fabricating these stories are the ones who accuse others of “not supporting our troops.” If “supporting our troops” is just using them as flesh and blood public relations tools, then I am out.

Besides that, funding for taking care of our troops when they come home is crap. Sure, they can go to college on the GI Bill or whatever the hell it is, but who gives a shit if you can go to college for free when you can’t afford to pay rent, let alone feed yourself and your family? I would think that after four or more years of being used as a human PR tool, a person deservesd more dignity than we give them.

I’m getting off track here, but just wanted to point out how ludicrous this whole “Support our troops” thing is. I am all for supporting our troops, and certainly do, but I don’t think that the people who are supposedly supporting our troops really are doing it in practice.