Base Closings Carry Political Risks

[insane_cratic_gal]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&ncid=703&e=3&u=/ap/20050425/ap_on_go_co/base_closings_politics

using the military once again

Being a wife to a Sailor, day by day i'm seeing the reps having a war on military families. I wonder how much longer they can maintain their red white and blue pins, while wives daughters sons and husbands die or the lies. While families suffer the burden of losing their homes and jobs due to stop loss.

Myself they never had my vote, they lost my husbands 4 years ago and never had it this year. Let them keep closing down bases, cutting benifits to veterans, cutting va hospitals!

I'm just disgusted they were only try to stop base closings to futher their own political gain

[insane_cratic_gal]

1. opps

meant this for LB sorry =/

[MissMarple]

2. They all claim it won't be a "political" decision.

Ah..huh. There seems to be an excessive amount of protesting about that, according to the article, from senators to Principi to good old Georgie. Even Cheney has a part. Everything else about this administration is political and extremely partisan, so why not the base closings?

" The upcoming round of military base closings must be "untarnished by political influence," Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole declared. Then she put in a plug for her own state.

North Carolina "supports a unique military infrastructure," prime for expansion not closure, Dole told the head of the commission that will review Pentagon proposals for which bases to shut.
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Lobbyists working to save bases note, though, that most commission members have ties to the Bush administration, raising the question of just how independent it will be. Principi, for one, was the head of the Veterans' Affairs Department during Bush's first term.

Vice President Dick Cheney, a former defense secretary during previous closures, wanted Principi as chairman. Some lobbyists say they suspect Cheney is intimately involved in the process and could influence the commissioners — a fear administration aides say is unfounded."