text: why is it amercian presidents do not like viet nam veterans? ford: ended our envolvement without any accountablitlty for our mia/pows carter : pardoned those who fled to canada reagan/ bush 1 did nothing about the pow/mia issue clinton: eveaded the draft then visited viet nam, no mention of the pow/mias bush: enlisted in but was abscent from a lot of the time the al guard, to avoid viet nam, goes to viet nam in support of a free trade agreement with viet nam, yet doesn't say anything about our pow/mia's probably because america hates veterans but loves money!  you in da nang?  jh, you might argue, but those are the facts!!  bush sent the military into combat ill-equipped, unarmored hum vees, and families had to send their own children body armor that cost's $600.00! what did you do about that jh?  bush likes vets so much he cut widows benefits to those whose spouse was killed in iraq by 1/2, what did you do about that jh?  bush cut veterans hospitals by 8 billion in his 2006 budget after flat-lining them for 4 years! and that is after 3 years of people coming home missing arms and legs! what did you do about that jh?  bush tried to cut combat pay to the military in iraq but was not allowed to after the firestorm!  the government stonewalled vets from service connected disabilities for ptsd, agent orange and blue! it took them 40 years to find the link between cancer and the defoliant’s, but that didn't stop people from dying of cancer or committing suicide! where were you on that one jh?  the government denied there was anything to the gulf war syndrome and denied service connected disabilities! guess what? there is a gulf war syndrome! meanwhile vets were living under bridges! where were you on that one jh?  there will be one from iraq, mostly from enhaling depleted uraranium used in shells? there is going to be a lot of cancer that the government is going to deny they had anything to do with! where are you going to be on that one jh?  the government was charging military who got ourt of the service for lost body armour in iraq! $600.00 is a lot of money, especially because they had to cut it off you after you were wounded and it was soaked in blood! how you stand on that one jh?  military who were wounded in iraq and many months later discharged from walter reed hospital, were given a bill for their food when they left! sen. clinton had that changed! where did you stand on that one jh?  you really think bush cares about vets?  do you think the majority of the people care about vets? go to a memorial day parade sometimes jh! going to walmart to buy a yellow ribbon magnet made in japan for $4.99 and putting it on your vehicle is  not supporting the troops jh!!  come sit on my side and see how your views might change, especially if you were wounded and then given a discharge from the service to go to an understaffed, underfunded va. just like we did! i have a purple heart and a purple heart plate on my vehicle! you want to know how many times people have approached me to even say hello? i can count them on 3 fingers! what do you yhink about that jh?  i bet you did nothing to support the troops, but plenty to clamour for the continuation of a war that was lost in 2003! am i right jh?