In petition, veterans call for Obama to fire VA secretary

[MADem]

18. Let me tell you about Rick--he's the guy who told Chimpy that he'd need 350K pairs of boots on the

ground--to START--to fulfill his Democracy in Iraq dream.

For that, he was, as the senior military leader of the United States Army, a Vietnam veteran with warfighting experience, in essence, FIRED, and no one from the White House attended his small retirement ceremony.

He was put out in the cold for daring to speak the truth, because the truth was expensive, and Bush wanted to do it on the cheap. So instead, he took the advice of asswipes who never spent a day in uniform.

The improvements to the VA during his--and Tammy Duckworth's (she was one of his deputies before she went to Congress)--tenure are nothing short of staggering.

They could do more, sure, but they can't do more without money to make infrastructure improvements and hire additional staff.

Oftentimes, they put guys who have only piloted a desk in charge of VA. Rick and Tammy had both seen the ugly side of war. They took the job seriously and personally.

Not every VA facility is up to snuff, but MANY more are now than when he started. It's a thankless job.