The Howard Dean campaign sent out a call for help last week. Not for himself, but for our troops. Those brave folks that are selflessly sacrificing everything for us to be able to keep living in a free society. You would think that the government, and especially the current administration that is so bent on going to war would take good care of these special folks, but no they do not.

The help being asked for is for citizens to send care packages to a clearing station so that they can be delivered under the new rules to various soldiers in the field of battle (and those back here at home that are also struggling).

That we are being asked to send care packages is not new or unusual. This is a practice that goes back in history. Folks have done this for their troops for centuries. What is unusual here is that Americans are being asked to send some of the most basic essentials to our troops. Not cookies and chocolate. No basics for daily living and doing the job they were sent there to do. Hot breakfast, soap, toothpaste and other basics. Gloves, flashlights, handcuffs. One would expect that the government would provide the tools of the trade. Donate your airmiles so that a soldier coming home to visit their family can actual get home and not be stranded at one of the 4 major hubs the military takes them to.

This is an outrage. But we should not be surprised. The administration does not actually care for these citizens that are willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for their country. They are only concerned about their agenda at it appears to very personal. Make more money for ourselves and our little inner circle of super wealthy. Oil and cash is the name of the game. The rhetoric about WMD and terrorism rings hollow and halfhearted in the face of Halliburton greedily sucking our tax dollars into their coffers, while soldiers are being picked off by snipers and suicide bombers everyday. Besides its greed, this administration is also guilty of the utmost cynicism. Shame on you.