Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004): Veterans Speak Up

The clip veterans speak up from Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) with George W. Bush

...and the have-mores.
Some people call you the elite.
I call you my base.
While Bush was busy taking care of his base...
...and professing his love for our troops...
...he proposed cutting combat soldiers' pay by 33 percent...
...and assistance to their families by 60 percent.
He opposed giving veterans...
...a billion dollars more in health-care benefits...
...and he supported closing veteran hospitals.
He tried to double the prescription drug costs for veterans...
...and opposed full benefits for part-time reservists.
When Staff Sergeant Brett Petriken from Flint...
...was killed in Iraq on May 26th...
...the Army sent his last paycheck to his family...
...but they docked him for the last five days of the month he didn't work...
...because he was dead.
They say they're not gonna leave any veteran behind...
...but they're leaving all kinds of veterans behind.
To say we're forgotten, I know we're not. But missed? Yes.
Yes. There's a lot of soldiers that have been missed...
...that have been skipped over.
Didn't get the proper coverage they deserved.
There's a death toll, but not showing the injured or amputated.
I still feel like I have hands.
Yeah.
And the pain is like my hands are being crushed in a vise.
But they do a lot to help it...
...and they take a lot of the edge off it.
It makes it a lot more tolerable.
I was injured in late April on patrol in Baghdad.
A couple of guys come out and ambushed us.
I got nerve damage and stuff like that.
I've got a lot of pain. I'm constantly in pain.
I take a lot of morphine...

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