Sen. Mark Kirk's Support For Damaged Vets Rings Hollow

Senator Mark Kirk (War Party, IL) has much nerve sending me an email touting his efforts to relieve the unconscionable 465 day delay processing Illinois veteran disability claims. The thousands of such claims in Illinois and the other 49 states are due, in part, to Sen. Kirk's 13 years in Congress supporting our criminal wars of choice in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has voted for every one of the trillion plus dollars to fund these wars and has never, ever broken with his fellow war mongers in the war party to bring them to an end and prevent the next such catastrophic intervention, be it in Iran or Syria. If you have any doubt about Kirk's allegiance to endless war, check out the very first issue statement on his web site www.kirk.senate.com:

American Security
... We must succeed in Afghanistan and stay on offense in the War on Terror. We cannot allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapons capability.

The horrific truth is that the war party provides such poor treatment to the hundreds of thousands of Iraq and Afghan war vets wounded, injured or suffering concussion and traumatic brain injury because they're no longer of any value to the war party's need for endless fresh canon fodder to continue current military ventures and staff the upcoming ones that they, including Sen. Kirk, salivate over.

Sen. Kirk needs to demand an end to the Afghan war before the Obama administration target date of December 21, 2014. He needs to ratchet down the bellicose rhetoric which may lead to a third senseless war in the Middle East, this time against Iran. He needs to resist efforts by the war party to intervene in the Syrian civil war. Finally, he needs to stop feigning support for our damaged vets who wouldn't be damaged if Kirk and his war monger buddies wouldn't be throwing them into the abyss of the worst form of human endeavor: senseless war.