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IvanO'Brien@wesupportthevets.com The unseen, unbeatable foe of retired Veterans By Ivan O’Brien
It takes money to fight a war and it requires even more to extend U.S. supremacy following Rumsfeld Defense Planning Board objectives. Sounds like a stretch to bring the SECDEF into reasoning why disabled veterans keep getting shoved aside by the DOD? Why would Rumsfeld and Chu get upset about ( what they say) is a small amount being deducted? Money is money and every bit counts-especially if it is floating around in a DOD "reservoir.". Its not that the vets would take defense funds that would be used for ammunition, new Humvies or fuel—quite the opposite—the money, retirement money if you will, has already been allocated. (Lets not redo the explanation about Veterans Affairs funding and retirement funding being two different entities derived from two very opposite allocations--- if you can follow our convoluted diatribe thus far, you are aware of such facts.) The figure is a nebulas amount perhaps not even properly understood by the IGO or GAO. It’s like floating surplus from the difference between what is calculated as needed to pay the number of retirees and what is actually paid after the V.A disability deduction. Using the yearly increase of retirees into the system minus the (member)withdrawals due to death and the number of eligible disabled veterans having the V.A. deduction, number crunching vets say there is annually about 4.5 billion unaccounted. Let’s go back to the Rumsfeld Defense Planning Board for an overview of its Chair Richard Perle and some other interesting individuals. Perle is a heavy supporter of PNAC (Project for a new America) and a heavy hitter with AEI American Enterprise Institute. You may recognize those letters—AEI—as the neoconservative outfit that has called for preemptive military strikes against third world “out-of-line-with-our-intentions” countries. If you review the bush administration policies in the Middle East and those that the AEI has pronounced, they are without exception, duplicates. Working with Perle Is Lynne Cheney, former CIA officer Ruel Marc Gerecht and Michael Rubin. Rubin you may recognize as the individual that was hired by the Pentagon to prepare the groundwork for a post conflict Iraq. Enter the next individual, Michael Ledeen. Ledeen is a co-founder of Jewish Institute for National Security (JINSA). He is also the person that was the principle intermediary between Oliver North and Iranian negotiators in the Iran-contra affairs.
It requires a lot of money also to run a think-tank like the AEI and it sure requires some good accounting practices to keep the funds from commingling with the defense funds allotted to the Rumsfeld Defense planning Board. Maybe, just maybe, we could get one of the above individuals to help us find where the money goes from our military retirement funding when the deduction is made by the V.A.? Authors note; for some additional understanding on the part these organizations play in this nations foreign policy, see the following article http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2002/0204pnac.html
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