BushCo STILL Hates The Troops - Part 23

Rant Warning. They're at it again.

No sooner is the BushCo Pentagon finally forced to reimburse troops for their having to purchase their own body armor and other equipment (although no cheques have yet arrived...) than along comes this:

The Pentagon has reneged on its offer to pay a $15,000 bonus to members of the National Guard and Army Reserve who agree to extend their enlistments by six years, according to Sen. Patty Murray (D-Seattle).

The bonuses were offered in January to Active Guard and Reserve and military technician soldiers who were serving overseas. In April, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs ordered the bonuses stopped, Murray said.

“This is outrageous,” the senator said in a telephone interview. “It makes me angry that this administration has broken another promise to our troops.”

Yeah, it makes me angry too. Fuckers. Every promise a quibble, every statement a lie.

Pentagon spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Ellen Krenke, confirmed the bonuses had been canceled, saying they violated Pentagon policies because they duplicated other programs. She said Guard and Reserve members would be eligible for other bonuses.

Notice the spokes-fucker doesn't say the other bonuses will be anything like comparable - they won't be.

In a two-paragraph reply to Murray, Donna Warren, the National Guard Bureau’s congressional liaison, said the bonus program had been scrubbed by order of the Office of Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs. Warren said it had been discovered that Defense Department regulations prohibited such bonuses, but she offered no elaboration.

Incompetent, lying fuckers then.

Murray said Warren’s response was inadequate. Earlier this month she wrote Thomas Hall, assistant secretary of defense for reserve affairs. Murray asked not only for a further explanation, but also asked Hall to reverse himself and reinstate the bonus program.

Krenke said the Pentagon would have no comment on Murray’s letter to Hall.

Because the lying fuckers don't care.

I hope and pray that every single one of them from Georgie on down one day has a reason to truly, truly need the personal helping intervention of U.S. soldiers - and that the soldiers turn their backs on them and walk away.