Unless the men and women who are fighting in the Gulf as we speak get to take a piece of every oil well they "liberate" and get a lifetime revenue stream from each well, they are screwed. I would go to Vegas and lay odds that they do not know that the Congress that rubber-stamped their administration-sanctioned playtime in Mesopotamia is even now hacking away at their future Veterans Benefits. I have blogged on this in the past here and here, but never really believed that the Congress with No Cojones would be so brazen as to screw the men and women in uniform in the middle of an armed conflict. If you put a picture of every Republican congressman up and titled it with the caption "No Shame", it would not be far from the truth. I would expect that all the dems and republicans who are vets will vote against this horrid bit of legislation, but they are not even close to being a majority in the House. Others who might vote against it will, I am sure, be brought into line by Tom "minorities took my spot, so I could not join up" Delay, who will make sure that the money that would fund veterans programs goes to the likes of Kenny-Boy & Co.

I'm sure they need it, the price of every Defense Contractor stock is sure to rise, and they need the cash to buy more.

As a part of the republican plan, maybe when they separate they'll be getting a talk from those great supporters of the republicans, Multi-Level Marketers on how to make a million selling whatever...for a large enough donation to the RNC, the MLM folks might even get to start bidding on supplies for Iraq. Imagine the possibilities, infinite supplies of unusable soap sold to homeless Iraqis who can't pay. Those guys and gals need to get busy making contacts now, so they can move products after the war.

Is this a great country or what?