What Iraq, Afghanistan veterans have to say about Schmidt

This just in from VoteVets.org ...

IRAQ VETERANS IRATE OVER REP. JEAN SCHMIDT'S LATEST COMMENTS
Site pattern of disrespect for warriors

NEW YORK - Iraq war veterans today expressed their outrage that Rep. Jean Schmidt would assert that the conditions that many troops lived in at Walter Reed were 'overblown.' Jon Soltz, Iraq war veteran and chairman and co-founder of VoteVets.org, said:

"Once again, Jean Schmidt has no understanding, credibility, or respect of and for our military. How anyone could ever maintain that those troops who lived in squalor at Walter Reed's Building 18 were just "overblown" cases is the height of unsensitivity. Let her talk to those troops and their families and tell them that it wasn't really a problem.

"Rep. Schmidt, of course, showed the height of disrespect when she called a decorated Vietnam veteran a coward on the floor of the House of Representatives. So this is becoming a pattern on her part.

"The only thing that's overblown here is the notion that Jean Schmidt respects those who served our nation in combat."

VoteVets.org is a pro-military organization committed to the destruction of terror networks around the world, with force when necessary. It represents the Voice of America's 21 Century Patriots - those who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. It primarily focuses on nonpartisan education and advocacy on behalf of troops, veterans and their families.

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