The council, with up to 35 members, is expected to review and assess state and federal laws and programs relating to veterans and report back to the Patrick Administration.Is this an attempt to heal the wounds created by nixing the veterans' affairs adviser from the cabinet, or is it just a way to add up to 35 new hacks to the payroll under the guise of caring for veterans?
It will also report on current services to veterans in the Bay State, including health care, education and housing.
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1. The War In Iraq is more than people fighting
and US Soldiers losing thier lives.
Its about the future of a way of life. Muslims have
a memory that strectches back 3000 years. Many Muslims
are taught hate from the beginning of their lives.
And they have nothing to lose. They even believe
that they will get more in death than they have in
life. They are strict beyond belief. Their values
would set back WOMEN'S RIGHTS a 1000 years. I
cannot imaging any woman wanting of their own
free will to convert to the Muslim way of life.
If we did to Hitler in 1938 what we did to saddem
in 2003, then there would be over 100,000,000
Russians, Germans, Polish, Spanish, French, Japenese,
Catholics, and Jewish people that were not
killed between 1938 and and 1945.
No one wanted war. War was forced on the world by
Hitler. War would have been forced on the world
by saddum as well. Yes 1000's have lost their
lives since the terror war began. But MILLIONS
could have lost the terror war if we waited another
few years. And millions are still at risk because
the terrorists will someday find a way to ignite
a nuclear or dirty nuclear in one or more US
cities. Then who we fight? The terrorists will
destroy your/my way of life. They will fight for
a 1000 years. We need to kill every one of them
as soon as possible while we are building a
viable enconomic system in the region. And yes, we
will have more loves lost. Compare that to the
100,000 lives lost EVERY YEAR IN THE US FROM
DRUNK DRIVERS AND GANG VIOLENCE for nothing
against the few 1000 absolutely great US soldiers
who are killed in cowardly random acts by masked
terrorists. The terrorists want to destroy the USA
and EUROPE. They want everyone to live by the laws
of the Koran and forget about liberty and civil
rights. I for one do not and will not want to
live under that kind of religious dictatorship.
Do you??? I don;t think so. So instead of
following the crowd and mindlessly sat you are
against the war, think about what you are really
saying. You are saying that you will give up your
civil rights. You will give up your freedom. You
will submit to the religious ruling group or you
will be beheaded. Muslim cultures did this to
the countries they conquered before and its the
same ideology that is driving the terrorists
today. Remember, they think in 1000s of years. They
have the ability to wait for 10 or 25 or 100 years
easily. All the while planning their strike. Now
wiith the oil money, they do not have to wait to
accumulate large sums of money. They get it
from IRAN and other countries like the Saudies.
Unless we fight this war with everything we have,
for as long as it takes, we will lose.
So, again, I ask, what do you mean when you are
against the war??? Are you against freedom. Are you
against civil rights? Are you for religious
persicution? Would you stand by while the "SEX
POLICE" beat your daughter, sister, wife or female
friend because her ankles were showing? I for one,
would stand up and beat the crap out of anyone
fefiling any of my friends. What about you? Would
you just watch while she was beaten??? I would take
out my GUN and shoot the bastards. i would kill
every last one of them before I would let them
harm my sister, daughter, wife or friend. What
about you? Sometimes we all want simple answers to
very complicated problems. Sometimes we think that
as USA citizens we have rights. The rights that
have been won through years of fighting and
bloodshed. We forget that we are not really
entitled to have a wonderful life. We are the
lucky ones. We were born in the USA where we can
protest without government spraying the crowd
with bullets like they did in the Chinese Sq.
We need to realize that the war is not about
losing 1 or 1000 or 10,000 lives, its about
keeping what we have. Are you willing to give up
yopur way of life so that someone can tell you
what to do and what top say and who to marry.
Yes arranged marriages are part of it. Imagine
being given to an ugly, older man who will own you
forever. And if he want to divorce you, all he
has to do is douse you with gasoline, strike a match,
light you up and walk around you 3 times while
you burn to death - saying "I divorce you" 3 times.
Maybe he'll let you live and just pour ACID on you.
scarring you for life. That's what you have to
look forward to if we lose the war. Think about
that the next time you are protesting the war.
Think what you are protesting. You are protesting
your civil rights. You are protesting any
freedom you might have. Do you realize what you
are saying when you are protesting the war o terror?
This is what I think. You are welcome to re-butt -
providing you use logic and facts not bullcrap
that you make up or something you might have
heard in a political campaign p which is all
spin - no matter which side you are on.
Straight Talk From Jay Clifford
Jay Clifford at 8:51PM on Apr 25th 2007