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Seems as if "never" means "not for twenty-four hours, at least" in the current Administration's lexicon:

Say One Thing, Do Another -- Bush on Veterans Day and Today
Jon Soltz/Hufington Post
This weekend, President Bush said in his radio address, "[Veterans] continue to strengthen and inspire our Nation. And we will never forget what we owe them."
Today, the President vetoed legislation that would have provided:

• $3.4 billion for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), which provides mental health and suicide prevention services - at a time when the Army suicide rate is at its highest in over 25 years.
• $10 million for Brain Injury Prevention for our veterans.
• $5.2 billion for Veteran Job Training and placement programs, as well as homelessness prevention programs that benefit our veterans.

Last week, I stood up with Senators Dick Durbin and Jack Reed, pleading for Congress to pass this bill - and they did. But, despite the President talking a lot about what we owe veterans on Saturday, today, with his veto pen he told veterans, "We don't owe you [BLEEP]."

(Read the whole post at the Huffington Post
So the President says that the total cost of his war is $800-billion-plus, but Congress's accounting agency says the total cost will run in excess of $1.6 trillion.
Yes, there was pork in that bill - but, ya know, i'd rather see money spent on things that actually benefit someone here in the US instead of wasted on the wrong war in the wrong time in the wrong place ... by a chicken-hawk President who obviously has no understanding of the implied contract between the nation and its warriors/veterans...

Posted on 11/14/2007