{"id":5975,"date":"2008-05-10T12:57:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T19:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5975"},"modified":"2008-05-11T03:01:23","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T10:01:23","slug":"bush-admin-war-on-us-troops-continues-pentagon-contracts-pet-crematorium-for-fallen-service-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5975","title":{"rendered":"Bush Admin War on U.S. Troops Continues: Pentagon Contracts Pet Crematorium for Fallen Service Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DOD_PetCrematorium_051008.jpg\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\">Following their recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5972\">policy to keep disabled vets from registering to vote<\/a>, the Bush Administration&#8217;s contempt for U.S. troops continues apace, as it&#8217;s been revealed that Dover Air Force base had contracted out cremation of service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to a local pet crematorium. Classy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>David Edwards at <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/rawreplay\/index.php?p=1025\">RAW STORY has a video report<\/a>, including the Pentagon&#8217;s apology (for having gotten caught, apparently):<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Fox&#8217;s Jennifer Griffin reported&#8230;&#8221;There is no evidence any soldier remains were ever comingled with pets but this soldier reported back the treatment of our fallen soldiers was undignified at best. When his friend&#8217;s coffin was taken to the crematory it was not flag draped and when it arrived the only sign outside the crematory said &#8216;Friends Forever, Kent County Pet Cremation Service.&#8217; Yesterday, a press secretary apologized on behalf of Secretary Gates to the families of fallen soldiers.&#8221;\u009d<\/div>\n<p>Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity have already begun plans to <em>not<\/em> mention the story as soon as possible, since it occurred during a Republican Administration.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, had this occurred during the previous administration, how often, and for how many <em>years<\/em>, do you suppose you&#8217;d have heard it repeated in the Wingnut Media Echo Chamber as: &#8220;Bill Clinton <em>despised<\/em> the U.S. military! He hated them so much, he sent our heroic fallen troops to the <em>dog pound<\/em> to be cremated, for crying out loud! Just to show his disdain! I kid you not!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following their recently announced policy to keep disabled vets from registering to vote, the Bush Administration&#8217;s contempt for U.S. troops continues apace, as it&#8217;s been revealed that Dover Air Force base had contracted out cremation of service members killed in Iraq and Afghanistan to a local pet crematorium. Classy stuff. David Edwards at RAW STORY [&hellip;]<\/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":[272,174],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dept-of-defense","category-robert-gates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975","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=5975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5975"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}