The GOP is always looking for the easy way out ,
pointing the finger at the past best point the finger at the now leadership.

To blame Clinton right or wrong…

for every wart on societies soul is the ultimate sign of living in La Land created to hide the fact of acceptance of ones own mistakes in life for you know it easy to point the direction else where so as to hide the truth of self.

Remember it is the shortest way to control other lives rather than face bad choices made by ones self.

Greed, power, material mixed with the desire will make the humans revert to animal part of their brain,

The most important thing now is to focus on he knew everything along with all who helped create the Bushville Follies at the Crawford fiefdom in Texas and vote this gang of GOP thieves out into the cold hard world of washing dishes and no healthcare an all other hazards of just living.

So be kind and gentle with yourself and vote greed out of office.

Lets call the new republicans what they really are?

The New Terrorists

The GOP is new a Neo American Nazi fascist party, they are a group that look to the "Christern Right” and use the basic predigests of looking down on the Poor, elderly, disabled, Catholics, Jews, and any lesser religions along with the debasement of all who would oppose them and their right to power and what they think is the best for all of them in their greed, power, for image an the buck.

Hitler could not have created a group so well, He would be very happy to see hate, greed and power at its best black suits with red ties and dress black jack boot gray matter non think uniforms.

I know that the real Lincoln republicans are still out there working heard trying to keep family and hearth together even as they are Put on a slot of demographic levels so the PR boyz can create the stage set and photo-op for that 15 minutes of feel good so as to blind the truth of the real world.

Is that fine men and women are being murdered, wounded for this “ Wag the dog war” for the oil, drugs, and uncontrolled spending of tax payers money for the corporate welfare of the unbidding and the greed of soulless merchants of special interest few.

Every day your freedom is being taken away, not by the terrorists but the name of righteous greed and desire for power for personal image and fear that you might have an idea that would put them out of their jobs if in this process you might discover all the lies and under the table perks.

Enough, I say.

Look at all around you and see the real world not a marketing man selling snake oil and telling you its fresh water.

The world of bad taste is alive and well in the diggi'n with all the new glyphs that have come to the attention of all in the armadillo community that one of the human rulers of the "Bushville Clan" is mad as a hatter for he mad a deal with a "Gudaffie?" of the liars clan to make peace and what ever.

there is a saying in the armadillo culture you lie down width evil you can expect to come out with the same and rest assured you will lose everything.

Where is Justice for the offended?

I belief it is lost in the looking for answer book of human thought.

May be the earthquake in California will show the way to the truth of Arnold the grouper of this Kingdom of California as the debt weight is drowning the debit,

Just another day at the blooger.

Just getting back on line have been out there digging in the lost city of a past central city of the human culture and rar in to a new hot area of there looking for a way out of bad moves .

Have not found the meaning of these new glyphs yet but I know that it has to do with some kind of oil?

This Texas wind makes it a hard place to find respectiable dirt any where.

Have new commucating cumputer to play with. cold here in west Texas and the flu rides the wind.

Back later

Armadillos are always in the dark when they are digging so it is in their nature to be aware of the dark side of this logic from the fringe?

Spies recruiting spies the great concept from the inept or let hate rule the day?

A new Arnold movie from the fascist GOP writing pool in "Bushville" Texas lets run thief's recruiting thief's to come in an energy black out to steal California and any state we can to put in the pocket of the "$2000.00 hot dog boyz"

I don't know where this Rumsfield blind thought comes from except the personal idea of a need to "CYA."

Because this "wag the dog" war concept built on so many lies that none of them can see their own forest in the arrogance darkness of non-think.

Here we are with another great "Bushville follies" of the total lack of knowledge of the 100 years war started by a needy greedy leader who would make himself king if he could.

All this while he knows that he is responsible for the wounding and killing of our service people everyday.

All this for daddy's and cheney's oil company's combined with good old George Shultz Bechtel Corporation rebuild of Iraq.

All this time while he can say he was to busy helping a fellow fascist take over California to rebuild oil and energy grids there along with getting more money from "$2000.00 hot dog boyz"?

Maybe Arnold is getting a cut of this action too by selling his new movie to help pacification. Also they can get L. Flint to help rebuild a porn and chart industry to
take the edge off occupation?

To help continue "wag the dog" magic costs we can cut costs of war by not paying for veterans health care and keep their families out of care loop, Add to this not taking care of the outer vets. And obligations to the people and the well fair of America.

Anyway be great journalists find the truth, stop being a part of the press release, spin doctor tribe?

Look for the Armadillo truth and dig out the real in reality?

One question?

Really about any politician in this country is his family where he comes from and the relationship to childhood, mom and dad. What about schooling and environment?

I know the press is Armored with Arnold, but what about who? What? Where? Why? When did political desire out side the photo-op's, PR spins, and talk show romance and dance?

This man is related to a time and place that men and women gave there lives for is fighting Fascist in Europe, In light that Rumsfield will use an old actors friends hidden I a back room of questionable character still on the GOP payroll until he got gambling fever with other peoples lives, what better way to get back the Kennedy's than have a fascist pawn the hidden in the right wing GOP?

I just thought I would ask as I would think you have the resources and where with all to look into a journalist wonder for a complete story with hard questions out side the glamor of bright lights?

The normal man would certainly want to have mom, dad and family to be proud an a part of such an endeavor?

So where are they?

Who are they?

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Yes, the money?

Oh where is the great courage displayed by the quality journalists on staff with the fine database research support a chase for the money, and save American freedom?

A little digging in Texas where Enron and "$2000.00 hot dog boyz" friends hang their spurs.

Look to the genealogy of the money and why so many have been dropped from the loop of the justice dept. namely Phil Gram's wife as one of the executive directors of a key money flim flam fraud, Is this why he retired? This is a saga of but one where are all the rest?

Good times will be had by this group from "dizzybushville world" and all the “Chen’ergy Boyz” consortium that wish to control the world and sell us back our oil and freedom.

Also with the aid of that great tribal gang the “$2000.00 hot dog boyz” will be the thinkers of our independent thoughts for only they know what is best to sell a needless TV party drug so that we may accept their mindless greed for power and the bottom line as a cure-all.

Question where is all this excess cash going in “Bushville”?

What pocket book and strategy is being thought of.
Remember Watergate?

And the where, who, why, and what does the money buy?

Is it to take over every state?

Is it to create a false story and photo-op to misdirect you from a truth?
And let a right wing Fox make a fool of you?

Buy positions for heads of commissions?

Possibly to buy their favorite competitors?

Maybe your local council to raise your taxes because they need another country to be a war partner.
Think, there is no limit for the greedy.

All this is to make sure that the middle class stays poor and their children give their lives in this oily need for greed.

I know from experience for example, That this “Homeland security” sounds almost like “Der Fatherland” don't you think?

This Jackboot “Rigdeland” Image is stealing freedom and a mega-bucks to print stationery, business cards, forms and the tons of paper and set up times for electronic use, stitch patches and new uniforms-hats, belts, shoes, etc., paint, signage, office doors over all security problems etc., distribute all this where from, to whom, where is the guard of these tons of inventories, and then there is the questions of the handlers and the thousands of people that are needed to apply, install, deliver and inspect and control the use of all this simple everyday needs with a brain with tunnelride vision and controlfreak quality it's rip off of city in this food chain plus adding to the national debt every minute along with a never ending war.

Any way just a thought!

It really starts here in Texas?

I’ve lived, gone to school and worked in California. Started out in Santa Anna at the Marine base along with tours at bases Treasure Island and Vallejo during Korea. Also Long beach the VA have 100$ disability from Marine Corps VA. Came back to go to school and work.

Made the rounds lived in LA, Hollywood, Silverlake, Malibu, Burbank, Sunland, California City, San Jose, San Francisco for every where California was very good to me it is now I see the beauty and creative people being consumed by the non-think Langolers , it hurts.

Now , just an old man that is into living , surfing the net to keep the gray cells moving to catch the winds of life in time. Been blessed with trips up the mountain, tasted the fresh air, beauty along with strokes from the folks and wish that all could experience it.

All this is has brought me to a cry for help to save our freedoms.
Please just look at a thought from Texas as the real source of
California troubles with money.

There is need to attack and check all GOP relations with Enron (Take a look at retired Senator Phil Gramms wife as she was a executive director of one of the fake corporate groups that defrauded everyone and they still do not know where the dollars or who the secret partners are?) and other energy corporations like “Chen’ergy” Halliburton from Texas. It is proven in that are facts of this and others creating the theft through fake energy crises deals thus stealing from the people of California.
The records are all there.

You might want to look at questions for the “Bushville” SEC, FBI and Justice department ask why they are avoiding these people as they have all probably taken $$fruit from this tree?

You also need to look at the genealogy of the new big California right wing GOP connection to the governors recall, Is his “wag the dog” war money from the “$2000.00 hot dog boyz” or new possibility?

Maybe this is just one new from the California Big bundler CEO at Safeway Who has already raised over $200.000.00 stores getting money from all their suppliers like:
Sunkist, Raisin growers and many more at $2000.00 table meetings I would think the people of California would not take kindly that their high food cost is the supporting the new fascist GOP at their expense.

Also that they sell their shelf to the highest bidders?
I’m sure they will say this is free enterprise, but really is it not blackmail to screw the people and control pricing.

This group from “Bushville” is now creating the same problems here in Texas by also trying to force redistricting to get more power. Their need for greed is great.

Where is all this GOP money going from all these $200,000.00 fund raising events going?

Maybe for the NEW right wing “GOP Fascist party” to help
"neo-nazi Image-ridge gang" take the power of the people and basic freedoms away.

We know that the real “grand old party” of Lincoln with it’s honest conservatives are still there. For these are the men and women for the people, respect, honest opposition and the ability to bring compromise for the benefit of all people in this open debate. this is what America is about.

This New GOP party wants to take freedom from the people through fear and put in the depths of some "Ashcroft-pit" so the great land of "bushville" can have its greed and power to keep The old Watergate crowd on the rich side with "Shultz-Bechtel" rebuilding Iraq, and “the boyz” the oil business for dad and friends from the great Texas cash cow Enron, just look at ex senator Phil Gramm and wife a special Enron director of the disappearing funds of those flip-flop fund raising groups and what about those secret partners.

Where have all the proceeds gone?

They would go after Martha Steward that has created over 100,000 jobs and a great tax base while Mrs. P. Gram has stayed out of harms, this is not justice it's just a "Nixonised" Cheneyworld run by a all seeing, knowing the general of the generalized "General Rumps-in-the-field" a old school Nixongate neophyte.

This “Bushville” administration is truly using every photo-op, group, baby to kiss, tragedy, or take them to the ranch to create a event for the media to source for the art of misdirection.
Truly a what is, isn't and what isn’t, is.
But lets always get back to the fear factor, if you don’t do what they say something bad will happen to the people.

Still I say where have all the real journalists gone, I know they are out there somewhere?

Start digging keep the faith. Just look in the state of Texas and see the genealogy of all the players for the money starts here in this play of plays.

Introdiggin' by
Barrow a. Dillo
Poems, thought and diggin's
Of a misplaced armadillo
All auto kinetic writing courtesy of robert c. Maize
During thoughtless moments of human pursuits
And mystical adventures

Folks,
you have to remember in the food chain that rice is just side dish no mater what wither it is plain or it is mixed with.
That seems to be M. S. Rice's problem in "Bushville" logic?
She does however make a great photo-op or someone to blame for something which is a quality at the top of the list for employment in this "New fascist GOP."

A this new money scam with the "fascist ranger boyz" when is enough, enough?

But, as shown with the "$2000.00 hot dog boyz" one could say "$200,000 ranger boyz" would be the next step in greed.

I say again where is all this money going and to whom for what?

Journalist look alive?

Give us a break we seem to have a president that wants to kill off all the young and talented of this country, just to misdirect and create another photo-op for the
"Bushville and Chen'ergy boyz" use a Fascist GOP with the support of "the $2000.00 hot dog gang" steal our freedoms and tax payers money to buy the world add it up.

Look for the truth check the genealogy of the people and the money?

In this media romance you play the fool?
All the while don't let any body answer, shout over the truth, create bad taste "Fox the voice of the Fascist GOP runs amuck using all there funds to do what to whom?

A cry for help please, use your freedom of press and be journalist for the people and not the bottom line for there is a story so big that the payoff we'll leap the charts?

Be kind and gentle with yourselves and look for the truth?

ˇˇWEST TEXAS WIND

Late from walking into the wind
Of this panhandle and the windy
ways of Buddy Holly town.

Where the flat land abounds
and there’s plenty of room to turn around.
To put the dust to your back or hurry
and jump in your pickup truck.
And watch friends, relations and such
from your view mirror
flying on a cloud of dust to dairy stores
that abound.

Just gives me time to say it’s a blessing
to be hanging out with the winds of life.
To keep moving with natures love, hope, faith,
And forgiveness for all in this strange
World wind and sands of revolution today.

So keep stepping with the winds of time.
Bring us together to wonder and say to all
may whirlwind sands bring
the best to you’all.

Robert C. Maize





© copyright 3/3/2003 robert c. maize, all rights reserved

Oh where is the great courage displayed by the quality journalists on staff with the fine database research support to chase for the money,

A little diggin in Texas where Enron and the "$2000.00 hot dog boyz" friends hang their spurs.

Look to the genealogy of the money and why so many have been dropped from the loop of the justice dept. namely Phil Gram's wife as one of the executive directors of a key money film flam fraud , is this why he retired? this is a saga of but one where are all the rest?

Good times will be had by this group from "dizzybushvill world" and all the “Chen’ergy Boyz” consortium that wish to control the world and sell us back our oil and freedom.

Also with the aid of that great tribal gang the “$2000.00 hot dog boyz” will be the thinkers of our independent thoughts for only they know what is best to sell a needless TV party drug so that we may accept their mindless greed for power and the bottom line as a cure-all.

Question where is all this excess cash going in “Bushville”?

What pocket book and strategy is being thought of.
Remember Watergate?

A the where, who, why, and what does the money buy?

Is it to take over every state?

Buy positions for heads of commissions?

Possibly to buy their favorite competitors?

Maybe your local council to raise your taxes because they need another country to be a war partner.
Think, there is no limit for the greedy.

All this is to make sure that the middle class stays poor and their children give their lives in this oily need for greed.

I know from experience for example, That this “Homeland security” sounds almost like “Der Fatherland” don't you think?

This Jackboot “Rigdeland” Image is stealing freedom and a mega fortune to print stationary, business cards forms and the tons of paper and set up times for electronic use, stitch patches and new uniforms hats belts shoes, etc., paint, signage, office doors over all security problems etc., distribute all this where from, to whom, where is the guard of these tons of inventories, and then there is the questions of the handlers and the thousands of people that are needed to apply, install, deliver and inspect and control the use of all this simple everyday needs with a brain with tunnelride vision and controlfreak quality it's rip off city in this food chain plus adding to the national debt every minute along with a never ending war.

Any way just a thought!

ˇˇThe US Constitution what’s it all about?
The diversity of the people is the strength of our nation.
This is America, it is the respect for all that is different from our selves so we may exchange concepts, cultures, customs, to make peace with all to pursue our own life every day this is what a patriot is.

Just study, an look to the history of this nation and think?
Who and where did the founding fathers of this nation come from.

We are all from a group of humans from somewhere are we not?
Would it be the native "Americans" who certainly were not Christians, But the believers in the great spirits of nature.
Would it be the "Norseman" looking to the need of a search to make new trade, homes and families, certainly not Christians
Would it be the "Spanish from 1492 a seeker of new treasure and trade to help pay for wars and what not.
We do find here a Queen with a Catholic Christian base. They also were in Santa Fe over 400 years ago.
Would it maybe be the "Puritans that where run out of England for their defiling of the Christian Church of England later to become the Plymouth rock gang.
Would it be the "French Catholic Christians looking to get their share of the land,,,,, if you look to history you will see why this nation has a Constitution written for all the people.

The word is Freedom.
It does not mean Conservative, Liberals, Fat, Skinny, Gods, Goddesses, Catholics, Lutherans, Baptist, Jews, Muslim, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Hindi, Spiritualists, Which or whatever you decide to be.

This is called diversity and that is what is the key to the greatness of what America is all about. And It was not created nor measured by fools, but to protect us from those who foolish enough to not understand that we are free to choose our own destiny , no one is taking God from the USA for you cannot take away what is always there, remember the thoughts of Christ treat all as you would like to be treated for this is truly my own Catholic way of life for that is my contribution as a patriot to what America is all about.


Think about that.

{The latest glyphs and their translations have just been found in a DC cave with a strange smell an oily aroma of some kind. We also found a special thought projection machine, which we to bring this and future ciphers on line. 2003}

Here we go on another photo op journey in “Bushville” looking presidential for all to see and giving away the tax payers money to buy a deception and walk into another no win war front so we will not look at a “wag the dog” leader as he gives away our freedom and dollars to the check kiting $2000.00 hot dog gang.

Namely Rummy “the right is might”, Ridge “the dark image man” and Ashcroft “the tunnelvision preacherman” save we the people from freedom, justice and looking at the truth of their greed for power and money for the select secret “chen’ergy boyz”.

Meanwhile, Using our military that the “Bushville hot dog gang” put in harms way without the proper equipment. Just keeps being killed, wounded one, two or more a day to quote “as long as it takes”. All to protect the “chen’ergy boyz” so that the shadows dark past the old Nixon “I'm not a crook” and the Shultz “just get a contract” becthel hot dog gang may have the great rebuild Iraq job.

So this dark shadow may sublet under some name that will have the cloud of “Halliburton we got the oil for daddy and friends” the energy is ours. So now lets go create another world distraction to screw the people with bad health for all, down size the jobs, put business off shore, give the rich a tax break but tax the middle class as everyday just look around you as America dissolves into this non-think “Bushville Disneyland”.

Where has the pride and honor gone? The are no heroes, just the dead, wounded service men and women that have paid the greatest price with their families to serve the self interest of this greed and power of the few.

Where are the journalist to investigate this “wag the dog gang”?

{the glyphs were jumbled with signs and audio visual images as a translation device was used to bring the thoughts to concepts}

© copyright 1/1/2003, Robert C. Maize, all rights reserved

ˇˇ{ a thought found in this electronic jungle and very old glyphs that seem to echo through time , just something for all human kind and a armadillogist to know it does matter to all! }

Is There Anything Left That Matters?

by Joan Chittister, OSB
This is what I don't understand: All of a sudden nothing seems to matter.

First, they said they wanted Bin Laden "dead or alive." But they didn't get him. So now they tell us that it doesn't matter. Our mission is greater than one man.

Then they said they wanted Saddam Hussein, "dead or alive." He's apparently alive but we haven't got him yet, either. However, President Bush told reporters recently, "It doesn't matter. Our mission is greater than one man."

Finally, they told us that we were invading Iraq to destroy their weapons of mass destruction. Now they say those weapons probably don't exist. Maybe never existed. Apparently that doesn't matter either.

Except that it does matter.

I know we're not supposed to say that. I know it's called "unpatriotic."

But it's also called honesty. And dishonesty matters.

It matters that the infrastructure of a foreign nation that couldn't defend itself against us has been destroyed on the grounds that it was a military threat to the world.

It matters that it was destroyed by us under a new doctrine of "pre-emptive war" when there was apparently nothing worth pre-empting.

It surely matters to the families here whose sons went to war to make the world safe from weapons of mass destruction and will never come home.

It matters to families in the United States whose life support programs were ended, whose medical insurance ran out, whose food stamps were cut off, whose day care programs were eliminated so we could spend the money on sending an army to do what did not need to be done.

It matters to the Iraqi girl whose face was burned by a lamp that toppled over as a result of a U.S. bombing run.

It matters to Ali, the Iraqi boy who lost his family - and both his arms - in a U.S. air attack.

It matters to the people in Baghdad whose water supply is now fetid, whose electricity is gone, whose streets are unsafe, whose 158 government ministries' buildings and all their records have been destroyed, whose cultural heritage and social system has been looted and whose cities teem with anti-American protests.

It matters that the people we say we "liberated" do not feel liberated in the midst of the lawlessness, destruction and wholesale social suffering that so-called liberation created.

It matters to the United Nations whose integrity was impugned, whose authority was denied, whose inspection teams are even now still being overlooked in the process of technical evaluation and disarmament.

It matters to the reputation of the United States in the eyes of the world, both now and for decades to come, perhaps.

And surely it matters to the integrity of this nation whether or not its intelligence gathering agencies have any real intelligence or not before we launch a military armada on its say-so.

And it should matter whether or not our government is either incompetent and didn't know what they were doing or were dishonest and refused to say. The unspoken truth is that either as a people we were misled, or we were lied to, about the real reason for this war. Either we made a huge - and unforgivable - mistake, an arrogant or ignorant mistake, or we are swaggering around the world like a blind giant, flailing in all directions while the rest of the world watches in horror or in ridicule.

If Bill Clinton's definition of "is" matters, surely this matters. If a president's sex life matters, surely a president's use of global force against some of the weakest people in the world matters. If a president's word in a court of law about a private indiscretion matters, surely a president's word to the community of nations and the security of millions of people matters.

And if not, why not? If not, surely there is something as wrong with us as citizens, as thinkers, as Christians as there must be with some facet of the government. If wars that the public says are wrong yesterday - as over 70% of U.S. citizens did before the attack on Iraq - suddenly become "right" the minute the first bombs drop, what kind of national morality is that?

Of what are we really capable as a nation if the considered judgment of politicians and people around the world means nothing to us as a people?

What is the depth of the American soul if we can allow destruction to be done in our name and the name of "liberation" and never even demand an accounting of its costs, both personal and public, when it is over?

We like to take comfort in the notion that people make a distinction between our government and ourselves. We like to say that the people of the world love Americans, they simply mistrust our government. But excoriating a distant and anonymous "government" for wreaking rubble on a nation in pretense of good requires very little of either character or intelligence.

What may count most, however, is that we may well be the ones Proverbs warns when it reminds us: "Kings take pleasure in honest lips; they value the one who speaks the truth." The point is clear: If the people speak and the king doesn't listen, there is something wrong with the king. If the king acts precipitously and the people say nothing, something is wrong with the people.

It may be time for us to realize that in a country that prides itself on being democratic, we are our government. And the rest of the world is figuring that out very quickly.

From where I stand, that matters.

A Benedictine Sister of Erie, Sister Joan is a best-selling author and well- known international lecturer. She is founder and executive director of Benetvision: A Resource and Research Center for Contemporary Spirituality , and past president of the Conference of American Benedictine Prioresses and the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. Sister Joan has been recognized by universities and national organizations for her work for justice, peace and equality for women in the Church and society. She is an active member of the International Peace Council. >>

{Glyph note call to people that seem to have a cry for help in bad times}

Just a note for a call to the citizens of this our land:

When will you take note that this Bush, Cheney and Rumsfield oil follies of a war will not end except in heart break for all the service men left out in the cold to pay with their lives for the greed of a few that want dollars and the power.

Every day we are paying with our tax dollars to bring freedom to people that don�t want it, Freedom is something that each must earn. You can not make war and force it on anyone from a culture that still lives in the fourth century.

We can only set ourselves as examples for all, by looking to our own house to make freedom work at its best for the people. We need to make our government federal, state, city, business�s large and small, citizens young and old, by caring and sharing equally in the health, wealth, security of this nation in all our short history. Good health makes a great world.

We now have in place the great circus courtesy of the "Fuzzybush land" group that has only one thought in mind but control all and put us in the poorhouse so all GOP members have all our money?

Where are the journalist with pen and gray matter to come to the aid of the people of this nation?

What is happening to all this great tax cut is to come back to each state so every one can lose everything to higher property tax, tax on tax to make sure that the middle class, elderly, disabled, children and the poor disappear? Just like the servicemen are being killed one by one.

Here we are jobs gone , spending money to support health and wealth , and a leader that gets $2000.00 for a hot dogs while
24% of are going hungry, but we know that this extra 30 million we yet buy another group of friends a spot in �Bushville�

{This is some of the information that was translated from the recent glyphs discovered in a book they said dates about 2003. Hope get more understanding of these glyphs as time and money allow.}

JUST GOT An E-MAIL FROM THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS,
YOUR TITLE COULD BE
"DIE FOR YOUR COUNTRY JUST DON'T COME HOME WOUNDED OR SICK?"

WASHINGTON, Sept. 10—The House majority leadership has shown callous contempt for the sacrifices of Americas defenders by attempting to impose overly restrictive conditions that would limit benefits for disabilities from military service, said the Disabled American Veterans.

At issue is a proposed modification to the 2004 Defense authorization bill that would deny disability compensation and priority for health care to Americans who become disabled while serving their country if their disabilities are not directly related to performance of their official duties. Known as a "direct performance of duty" standard, this provision would overturn current law which authorizes service connection for disabilities incurred in the line of duty during service in the United States Armed Forces.

"Disability incurred in the line of duty is sometimes not directly due to a job injury, but may be due to less obvious factors attributable to the military environment," said DAV National Commander Alan W. Bowers. "Proof of a causal relationship may often be difficult or impossible to establish. Current law equitably relieves disabled veterans from the onerous burden of establishing performance of duty or other causal connection as a prerequisite for service connection."

An untold number of men and women will return from Iraq and the war on terror with disabilities. The military and veterans organizations worry that many of them will not be able to directly identify or prove the origin of their ailments, but that certainly does not mean they should be ignored. "Any suggestion to the contrary is outrageous and shameful," Commander Bowers said.

The nation's veterans and military service organizations are adamantly opposed to any change that would redefine service-connected disability or restrict the circumstances under which service-connection may be established. "We are shocked and appalled that any member of Congress or the Administration would suggest that such a draconian measure," said Commander Bowers.

"Our nation is engaged in a war with a hostile enemy that would willingly kill innocent civilians. Yet it seems that some members of our government would shortchange those who protect us," said the DAV’s National Commander. "Disabled veterans should not have to fight their own government for the benefits they earned. In a callous effort to limit government's obligations to our former, current and future defenders, authors of the provision in the Defense authorization bill took it upon themselves to rewrite the law regarding benefits for disabled veterans, bypassing the relevant congressional committee and without holding public hearings on the matter."