Nvvls

[Stretch]

NATIONAL VIETNAM VETERANS LONGITUDINAL STUDY

Status Report and Update August 18, 2008

http://www.vvachapter1004.org/whitepapernvvls.pdf

Edited May 7, 2010 by Stretch

[Stretch]

Congressman Mr. Stearns is the correction of the congressmans name.

[john999]

It is as if congress has no control over the VA. I know that the congress supplies the money to run the VA and to pay VA salaries. If they cannot control the VA and make them tow the line then who can? If they put some of these VA thugs in jail for contempt maybe they would get action.

[Commander Bob]

Thanks Stretch, for the two and one half hours of Congressional viewing..... Four more years of studies to go, with no end in sight. That is my conclusion.

I think it's time for congress to pass a "Vietnam Veterans Reconciliation Act", and compel the VA to properly compensate RVN vets. Gen. Powell once said "You break it, you buy it". It's time the United States pay for the breakage of it's vets...

Edited May 7, 2010 by Commander Bob

[john999]

Hmmm....in 4 more years most of us will be near 65 to 70 years old. One step closer to the government's problem being solved in a permanent way. This is really what it is all about like 40 acres and a mule.

[SLEDGE]

A verbal beatdown in a congressional hearing just makes the congressman look good and the VA look bad for a few minutes.

I think the whole thing is scripted like pro wrestling.

Plenty of words and no real action.

A waste of tax dollars.

Smoke and mirrors.

Give me a break.

sledge

[Stretch]

I don't think it is a breakdown at all. I think that this is a set up, for showing that the VA, is incompetent in this matter, and further shows reasons for the passing of Congressman Filners bill. VA stalling, and the Supremes denial in following the VA decision, are two reasons for the passing of this VN chemical legislation.

The VA is just carrying out the DoD policy of denial, for DoD's own expansion. That is why the VA doesn't have any answers, to questions, in these hearing. DoD policy, of thinking of Vets as commodities or expendable machines, has to stop.

Recent comments by our leaders and their relative parts, have said that "These people have joined the military, and these people knew what they were doing", as a defense for their actions, are totally absurd.

Recruits are not told that they would be coated with "Toxic Chemicals or Dioxins" or exposed to "Depleted Uranium" or used for "Big Pharma drug Testing". Recruits are not told that they will be Guinea Pigs.

DoD had better start telling the truth, stop recruiting, or pay for broken Veterans. Citizens and Veterans have to know that the VA is an underling of the DoD and the reason for this conflict of interest.