How our neocon leaders "love" our veterans--especially the disabled vets

It will certainly be a relief to see the hypocrite/liars Cheney and Bush GONE! These two chicken hawks pretend to care about the troops, wearing their flag pins on their lapels -- but when it comes to their treatment of the vets who have been wounded in the war they started on lies, well, that's a different story:

Injured vets pull Dick Cheney invitation over security demands

By James Gordon Meek
Daily News Washington Bureau

Sunday, July 27th 2008, 11:55 PM Ceneta/AP

Vice President Cheney was told to get lost by Disabled American Veterans, which had invited him to its convention next month.

WASHINGTON - Vice President Cheney's invitation to address wounded combat veterans next month has been yanked because the group felt his security demands were Draconian and unreasonable.

The veep had planned to speak to the Disabled American Veterans at 8:30 a.m. at its August convention in Las Vegas.

His staff insisted the sick vets be sequestered for two hours before Cheney's arrival and couldn't leave until he'd finished talking, officials confirmed. (Talk about a captive audience! Why not just chain their wheelchairs to the floor?)

"Word got back to us ... that this would be a prerequisite," said the veterans executive director, David Gorman, who noted the meeting hall doesn't have any rest rooms. "We told them it just wasn't acceptable."

When Cheney spoke to the group in 2004, his handlers imposed the same stringent security lockdown, upsetting members, officials said.

Many of the vets are elderly and left pieces of themselves on foreign battlefields since World War II, and others were crippled by recent service in Iraq and Afghanistan. For health reasons, many can't be stuck in a room for hours.

"It was a huge imposition on our delegates," added David Autry, another Disabled American Veterans official.

Autry said vets would've had to get up "at Oh-dark-30 and try to get breakfast and showered and get their prosthetics on."

Once inside, they "could not leave the meeting room, and the bathrooms are outside," he said.

Cheney's office acknowledged the security requests, but insisted he is sensitive to combat veterans' needs.

Spokeswoman Megan Mitchell said the two-hour rule is "a recommendation, not a requirement," and "we always work to make sure the bathrooms are within the security perimeters."

"The vice president would never let us do anything that didn't help facilitate the needs of our veterans," Mitchell added. (Yeah, yeah...now that Cheney's prerequisites have been made known, it's time to hurry and put a nice spin on it -- hopefully most Americans have wised up and aren't falling for the neocon BS anymore.)

Cheney has visited hospitalized wounded warriors and invited Walter Reed Army Medical Center patients for fly-fishing lessons around his swimming pool. (Whoopee...fly fishing lessons (at his swimming pool) -- but if you lost your arms in the war started on lies, fishing might be somewhat difficult)

But the vice president's rules for speaking to groups seem more stringent than those of his boss.

President Bush routinely speaks at events such as large dinners where thousands of guests freely pass back and forth through Secret Service screening portals.

Gorman first invited Bush, who has never addressed the group, but the White House declined last month. (Duhmbya can't be bothered to talk to the vets -- he's too busy getting in his last workouts in the White House gym.)