Bush Stiffs Hero Gulf War Pilot-POW's

[frazzledspice]

Former Gulf War POWs tortured by Iraqis were awarded compensation by a Federal court from Iraq's frozen assets, yet the Bush administration blocked the POWs from collecting.

This is truly beneath contempt. The former POW's are suing in Supreme Court to get the compensation that was awarded to them, that Bush says is "needed to rebuild Iraq."

A recent federal court ruling sided with the Bush White House in barring the former American POWs from collecting compensation money from Iraq. Now, Bush is trying to get the POWs’ entire case against Iraq thrown out -- a move the former POWs believe will wipe their torture out of the history books.

http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/m...rticle&sid=554

He says that no amount of money can compensate for the torture they endured.....so why give them anything?

From cutting Veterans' Benefits to stiffing military heroes of their compensation, Bush is making it harder and harder for military recruiters to get their job done....

[Stokes Pennwalt]

A recent article in the Democratic Veteran quotes Taylor Griffin, a Treasury spokesman, who said that in March, President Bush ordered the seizure of about $1.7 billion of the frozen Iraqi money. Mr. Griffin said that under a provision of recent federal law, the U.S.A. Patriot Act, that money became U.S. government property and is unavailable to the former POWs.

Hooray for the PATRIOT Act!