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I realize it's Helen Thomas and she'll put the very worst spin on anything about President Bush she can, but I'm truly hoping the article is a bunch of lies by a mean old biddy. If someone knows the truth of the matter, I'd like to hear it.

Helen Thomas is known for splicing, spinning and otherwise making complete chaos out of facts. I refuse to read anything she writes. It would be a waste of energy and time, imo.

I'm a member of VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) and DAV (Disabled American Veterans.) Unfortunately, everything in the article is true. I absolutely salute President Bush, but on this one he's wrong. Very, Very Wrong!

I just received both my VFW and my DAV monthly magazines. The reports were terribly disappointing. The case for 100% care is being carried forward to the Supreme Court.

It gets worse. Imagine that you become disabled at General Motors. You're able to continue working because it's just a 40 or 50 percent disability. To cover your disability they give you money to cover the extra medical expense per month. You finish out your 30 years at General Motors and retire. You go to get your retirement check like the other guys and they have deducted nothing from their check, but they have deducted from your check the value of the disability check they give you. In effect, at retirement they started charging you for your own disability and recouping it from your retirement check. You'd go ballistic.

This is ALSO what they've done to the military for years. They won't permit you to receive disability and military retirement at the same time (concurrent receipt.)

However, if you had gotten out of the Army after your accident or injury, you would have immediately started receiving the disability payment. You could go to work the very next day for the Government Bureaucracy, even the Dept of Defense, and get that check every day you worked for them. Then you could retire as a civil servant after 30 years working for the ARMY and then when you retire you could get BOTH the disability and the retirement check.

Retire from the military, though, and you cannot.

And they've reneged on the life health care promise. So, in effect, if they had any excuse in the past for not giving concurrent receipt, now they have none.

Broken promises. Bush is wrong not to sign off on both of these.....at a minimum, he should sign off on one of them.

"Veterans groups are angry at President George W. Bush for supporting a 1995 government decision"

Well I'd start with first line... That 1995 "government" decision was made by Bill Clinton. Strange how he is simply reduced to "government" when it suits her... So what she is really saying is veterans are upset Bush hasn't yet reversed Clinton's 1995 decision...