Town Hall 8/20/08: John McCain is Shocked! Shocked! to Learn that Veterans Have Substandard Care! And BTW, He Supports a Military Draft

As I said before John McCain could have exposed the horrific problems in veteran health care for years before the Washington Post got a huge scoop on the subject in an issue in February 2007 when the nation was shocked awake to the squalor and poor care at Walter Reed, the main veterans' hospital in Washington DC  where McCain spends most of his year (when he's not running for president again and again and still.  McCain claims to be for veterans first (though that messes with his claim to be for "Country First") and therefore  you would expect him to visit Walter Reed regularly.  Yet he missed the filth and bad care.  One can only imagine that he went to the hospital for the photo ops, instead of going there to talk to the veterans.

  Also notice that the woman who wants a draft is at least 60.  This is probably significant since the new draft guidelines from the Selective Service in the communications to and from the Bush White House on how, and how soon a draft could be reinstated now call for males and females to be drafted up to the age of 34 without exemptions.  (Admittedly though we have learned that only those under 25 would be trained for and sent into combat).  Young people are so much easier to send to manipulate into going to their deaths.  (And of course you know that parents are as concerned about having their children sent to war as the young adults are, but I guess the McCain camp thinks grandparents don't care so much.)

  The older draftees would be selectively chosen from 'high need' (think 'high value') jobs. That's the "skills draft" you may have heard about.  The privatized systems that the US government uses more and more will need people like doctors, nurses, computer programmers, and engineers of all types.  Now you're thinking that if these private companies paid going wages or a little better and kept people out of combat they'd probably get the skilled employees they need and you'd be correct, so what will be missing here is a good wage.  How soon can that start?  Well, look at McCain and the Bushies yammering over the Russia-Georgia conflict.  With their poor management of US foreign policy, Bush's order to start a draft within 75 (which he had Selective Service test in 2004) could come pretty soon.  But McCain is the first presidential candidate with a chance of winning who has expressed support for calling one up.  I had heard buzz from libertarian sources dated years earlier about McCain's desire for a draft for years, but without firm proof.  This is obviously a planted question.  I guess it's because McCain can't hold many thoughts in his head anymore (This has been proven--Something is seriously wrong with his brain) so they had a woman express this long winded spiel and all he had to do was acquiesce.

Still, even more shocking is John McCain's posturing over Veteran's health care after his years of neglect of veterans who were suffering in the system. 

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