Hall and Cornyn desert the troops

The new GI Bill that has been advocated by the IAVA and VFW passed the House last week, despite Ralph Hall's opposition. Today it passed the Senate (with a Yea vote from Kay Bailey H) despite a Nay vote from Bush's bitch Johnny Cornseed. Honestly, how can Cornyn and Hall look themselves in the face each day? They have both wrapped themselves in the American flag so many times that they have stripes on their chests and stars on their asses. You would think that given their eagerness to send our troops on such a hopeless, grinding and terrifying mission they would want only the best for them when they returned home. You would be wrong. Sure they approved every Iraq spending bill they ever saw like it was a blue light special at Wallyworld. And who could stop Corny from shrieking hysterically about the lack of patriotism of anyone who had the temerity to question his master's wisdom for the past 5 years?

But he and Hall don't care how hypocritical they look or how contradictory their positions are. Like Bush they reside in an unaccountable place in their own minds where not planning a war means it was wise, where not giving the troops armor is the troops problem, where failure is success and the hard work of active diplomacy is referred to as a refuge for cowards. Welcome to the Ministry of Peace and the rest of George Orwell's prediction of the future in 1984. Already, Rovian thought-bots of the administration, like Douglas Feith are drenching the airwaves with Newspeak lies aimed at making our whole society recall their failvictories. I say let's all join the revolution and remember what these unhonorable men actually did do, especially on election day this November. And let's make damn sure the Democratic Party doesn't forget these crimes once they have control of the reigns of power.

From Wikipedia:

"The keyword here is blackwhite. Like so many Newspeak words, this word has two mutually contradictory meanings. Applied to an opponent, it means the habit of impudently claiming that white is white, in contradiction of the plain facts. Applied to a Party member, it means a loyal willingness to say that black is white when Party discipline demands this. But it means also the ability to believe that black is white, and more, to know that black is white, and to forget that one has ever believed the contrary. This demands a continuous alteration of the past, made possible by the system of thought which really embraces all the rest, and which is known in Newspeak as doublethink. Doublethink is basically the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."

– Part II, chapter IX - chapter I of Goldstein's book