The Chickenhawks send us to war under the waving flags and with self-serving speeches full of fireworks and glory. They make solemn promises with one bloody hand on their goddamned bibles and the other clutching a knife behind their backs.
When it's time to inscribe the names of the dead upon the cold white marble, oh they remember us then, they do. They stand there before the cameras with crocodile tears in their eyes for all the fallen heroes and use us one more time to line their pockets with blood-money.
But for the living? The veterans who survived and now expect these faithless bastards to make good on their promises? Well, then they've never heard of us and their pious promises sworn before their God are as empty and as worthless as their faith.
The Clay Hunt Suicide Prevention for American Veterans Act stands ready to pass the Senate with a unanimous vote. Unanimous vote less one. The bill has been stalled by secret hold. One Senator, one, is anonymously holding up the bill in protest of its paltry $22M price tag.
This anonymous senator is so craven and so cowardly that he's afraid to openly filibuster the bill, so he used the secret hold.
That Senator is Tom Coburn, Republican from Oklahoma.
Coburn is a pusillanimous chickenhawk, your standard issue GOP hypocrite, a war fetish saber-rattler who never served not a single day in uniform himself, a vehemently pro-life and rabidly pro-death penalty bible humping conservative who enthusiastically sent us off to fight and die in a foreign land - while repeatedly voting against funding the tools and equipment we needed to wage the conflict he started - and who now would stand smugly by and watch veterans die as he secretly holds up legislation that would help them.
Coburn's office will not confirm that he's the one who placed the secret hold, but didn't deny it either. And his spokesman did say that Coburn strongly opposes the bill because it will cost $22 million over five years.
$22 million dollars over five years. That's $4.4 million a year. Just for reference purposes, a single F-22A Raptor, which Coburn voted for and components of which are built in his state (which is why he voted for it) costs $150 Million. Per unit. Payable in advance. All at once. That's right, the TOTAL cost of this bill which will help to save the lives of veterans, including those who flew this very airplane, IS LESS THAN 1/6TH, REPEAT 1/6TH, THE COST OF A SINGLE FIGHTER JET.
If there was any justice in the world, this craven son of a bitch would be forced to personally dig the graves of every single veteran who died in this goddamned war.
As to secret holds in the Senate. The practice should be made illegal immediately. If you don't have enough guts to own it, you shouldn't be in Congress in the first place. America is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And the people have a right, and a duty, to know who's holding up legislation. Secret holds are the enemy of democracy, they hold the entire country at the mercy of a petty and cowardly tyrant.
As a veteran, as an American, I say Fuck Senator Tom Coburn, the sooner prostate cancer kills him, the better for America. And you can quote me on that, unlike this coward, I own what I say.
It's long past time for Tom Coburn to face his small and spiteful God and answer for his miserable cowardice.
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