Dean: Bush Administration Has Damaged Our Country
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Once again, President Bush has misled the American people. Today, President Bush met with veterans and military families, inaccurately stating that Congress did not want to give military families a pay raise. In truth, President Bush threatened to veto a Democratic proposal to increase troops' pay because he thought it would be too costly. This comes in the same week that he threatened to veto a bill to provide health care for children and the news that his Administration knowingly put Katrina survivors in toxic trailers.
"President Bush's comments today are exactly why America will elect a Democratic president in 2008 to restore our American values," said Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean. "President Bush and his Republican allies sent our brave troops into a war of choice without the proper equipment and on false pretenses. After the damage that President Bush and his Republican allies have done to undermine our core values, and a legacy that includes threatening to veto a pay raise for our troops because it was too much, overstretching our military to the breaking point after sending them to Iraq without the proper equipment, threatening to veto health care for our children, and knowingly putting survivors of Hurricane Katrina in toxic trailers, it’s clearer than ever that our country needs new leadership."
