From left to right: The Unnamed Dirtbag, John F. Kerry, Olympia Snowe, Daniel Inouye, Mary Landrieu
The government has sent our sons and daughters in harms way. Regardless of whether we should be conducting warfare in Afghanistan, Iraq and unknown locations, when our government calls, our soldiers go out and kick ass. All they ask in return is that they are given every protection available by the same leaders that send them.
The Department of Defense is funded to provide guns, ammo and technology that either keeps the enemy at a safe distance or gets our guys out of harms way immediately when its time to go. So long as any one of our troops are getting injured or killed, there is no limit to how much of our treasury should be allocated to keeping them safe. If we can't afford to finance overseas adventures we should bring them home. If it's imperative that we deploy, money should be no object.
The Dirtbag Four: Kerry, Snowe, Landrieu and Inouye led the way to pack the DoD budget with $2.6 Billion of earmarks for 778 pork projects. That is $2.6 billion that will be on spent on museums, ego centers and all manners of other shit that in no way keeps our military personnel safe.
Every time a soldier falls on foreign soil we need to ask: would they have been saved with the more intel, munitions, transport, communication and support that the $2.6 billion would have afforded? And for those that do fall, are the families they leave behind sufficiently provided for, or would they be better served with a bit more cash in hand than with an Edward Kennedy Education Institute?
Blood is on the hands of the Dirtbag Four every time a trooper goes down. I want them out of office. If you do too, register below so we can begin our campaign:
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Senator John F. Kerry (D) Mass Email
Senator Olympia Snowe (R) Maine Email
Senator Mary Landrieu (D) Louisiana Email
Senator Daniel Inouye (D) Hawaii Email
