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On Veterans' Day Bush said critics of his war are undermining the troops. I just talked to an army chaplain whose troops are going back to Iraq for third and even fourth tours there. Who is undermining the troops? The Senate-House Veterans Affairs Committee (led by Bush's party) will now end a decades long practice of allowing veterans service organizations to testify about veterans concerns. Who is undermining troops turned veterans? Bush says his critics are re-writing history. He says they had the same intelligence he did. Did they have access to the presidential daily briefings or the notes of the White House Iraq Group? Bush did not allow the investigating committee to consider whether the intelligence gathered was manipulated. The Senate Committee has not been allowed to complete its inquiry. Who is re-writing history? And all this on Veterans Day from a man who can only get into his flight suit and pretend he is a real veteran.

The following links tell the story. One from the American Progress Report Next we hear from the Disabled American Veterans Finally from a retired Marine four star general

So we now truly have a "war on veterans." How tragic. How infuriating. How intolerable.