{"id":1611,"date":"2005-07-18T15:23:25","date_gmt":"2005-07-18T19:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2005-07-18T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2005-07-18T19:23:25","slug":"iraq-vets-place-ad-in-wapo-challenging-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=1611","title":{"rendered":"Iraq Vets Place Ad in WaPo Challenging Bush!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As if Dubya didn’t have enough (self-inflicted) problems…OpTruth.org<\/a>, a coalition of U.S. veterans of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars whose slogan is “Really Support the Troops – Listen to Them!”, is taking out an ad in tomorrow’s Washington Post<\/i> critical of the Bush Administration and calling on Bush to “provide leadership” by meeting the needs of healthcare for returning vets.<\/p>\n

In their ad, the group generously attributes the $1 Billion shortfall in Bush’s 2005 budget for “Veterans of the War on Terror” to a “miscalculation”.<\/p>\n

In 2006, the ad claims, the budget shortfall will be a full $3 billion short of what our returning veterans need to cover health care costs at Veterans Administration hospitals. OpTruth covers this issue in more detail on their website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

OpTruth.org founder Paul Reickhoff — who we’ve previously covered here<\/a> and more recently here<\/a>, quit his Wall Street job after 9\/11 to fight in Afghanistan and has been critical of Bush’s level of support for troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/p>\n

Reickhoff tells The BRAD BLOG<\/a> that this ad represents the “first time an Iraq vets group has taken out a major print ad.”<\/p>\n

The text from the OpTruth ad is as follows…<\/p>\n

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION recently admitted that they miscalculated the health care costs for Veterans of the War on Terror this year by at least $1 billion. In 2006, the shortfall will be $3 billion.<\/p>\n

WITHOUT IMMEDIATE CHANGES, four out of five returning Veterans could be turned away from care at VA hospitals. That’s a raw deal the American people will not tolerate.<\/p>\n

A UNANIMOUS, BIPARTISAN SENATE has moved quickly to cover this year’s outrageous budget gap with a $1.5 billion emergency supplemental. Congress should adopt the Senate’s plan, and should make up the 2006 budget gap as well.<\/p>\n

MOST IMPORTANTLY, President Bush needs to act immediately and provide the leadership that will prevent Veterans from being shortchanged now and in the future.<\/p><\/div>\n

A graphic version is below (click to see full PDF version):<\/p>\n

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As if Dubya didn’t have enough (self-inflicted) problems…OpTruth.org, a coalition of U.S. veterans of the Iraqi and Afghanistan wars whose slogan is “Really Support the Troops – Listen to Them!”, is taking out an ad in tomorrow’s Washington Post critical of the Bush Administration and calling on Bush to “provide leadership” by meeting the needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1611"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=1611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}