Jon Stewart introduces bill for sick veterans: ’Welcome to another exciting episode of ‘When is America going to start acting like the great country we keep telling ourselves we are?’ … Our veterans lived 24/7 next to toxic smoke … It’s bullsh*t.’
Army medic’s widow: ‘My husband is dead because America knowingly poisoned its soldiers. My daughter’s daddy is dead because America poisoned its soldiers’
Veteran exposed to toxins in Uzbekistan: ‘I am the lucky one. I am alive … But I still feel the clock ticking on my quality of life.’
‘You just said America’s worth fighting for — what the?! Are you kidding me?! This is embarrassing!’ — 9/11 activist John Feal standing up for sick veterans and hearing Republicans rally across the street
Jon Stewart on helping sick veterans: ’This is an eminently fixable problem. It’s simple and the money already exists in the system … the money to help these veterans is in the system.’
Jon Stewart: ‘America is, like, 4 wars behind when it comes to caring for their veterans … and just waiting for people to be sick and die is not a mantle worthy of a country like ours’
John Feal: ‘Before you’re a Republican or Democrat, you’re supposed to be an American. And before you’re an American you’re supposed to be a human being. And if you don’t get that then you don’t belong in office in the first place.’
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