This is truly disgusting. We send these people over to fight in a war that illegal and based upon fabrications, misinterpretations and flat-out lies, yet our country refuses to do anything for them.

Thousands of U.S. veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan are facing a new nightmare – the risk of homelessness. The U.S. government estimates several hundred vets who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan are homeless on any given night across the country, although the exact number is unknown.

The reasons that contribute to the new wave of homelessness are many: some are unable to cope with life after daily encounters with insurgent attacks and roadside bombs; some can’t navigate government red tape; others simply don’t have enough money to afford a house or apartment.

They are living on the edge in towns and cities big and small from Washington state to Florida. But the hardest hit are in New York, because housing costs “can be very tough,” said Peter Dougherty, head of the Homeless Veterans Program at the Department of Veterans Affairs

So we did not learn anything at all from Vietnam. This is what happens when you got a nation run by cowards who refused to go and fight in that war. They sit on their daddy’s ranches and think life is just great, totally blind to reality.

The article lists numerous examples, but here is one that is really touching:

When Noel returned, the shattered soldier couldn’t immediately find a job to support his wife and children and all the housing programs for vets he knew of “were overbooked,” he said.

The family ended up in a Bronx, N.Y., shelter “with people who were just out of prison and with roaches,” he said.

“I’m a young black man from the ghetto but this was culture shock. This is not what I fought for, what I almost died for.”

“This is not what I was supposed to come home to.”

Noel now attends a Brooklyn, N.Y., program to train for a job in studio sound production. He also is the protagonist of the documentary film When I Came Home, which was named best New York-made documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival this year.

So this is “supporting our troops”? That fat ass Cheney is making millions off of his Halliburton stocks because of this war and the people who went over there and risked life and limb are coming back to live on the streets.

This is the dirty greed that surrounds the administration and the Republican Party. The Democrats have fought for better treatment of our vets and the Republicans bitch about big government taking over.

The only reason they may care if a soldier dies is because that could hurt the poll numbers. This article makes it obvious that they do not give a shit about the people who defend our country. They sure as hell don’t care if the soldiers can come home to a somewhat normal life like they left when they had to go fight for Bush and Cheney’s down right lies.

Katrina exposed this nation to the problems of poverty. Those problems are going to grow now because of this war and Bush, with all his bullshit Jesus talk, will not do one single thing to stop it. Bush and his cohorts care nothing about human life, except their own. They are greedy, murderous vultures and if there really is a God then their judgment will be severe.