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Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling

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The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

That's what I mean. But they had no idea what that organization did or does. And I would think, you know, when you say VA to most Americans, what do they think of? Well, they think of, you know, former retired military people going to hospitals and getting medical treatment. But the VA is just a massive organization that does everything from

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

That's what I mean. But they had no idea what that organization did or does. And I would think, you know, when you say VA to most Americans, what do they think of? Well, they think of, you know, former retired military people going to hospitals and getting medical treatment. But the VA is just a massive organization that does everything from

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

That's what I mean. But they had no idea what that organization did or does. And I would think, you know, when you say VA to most Americans, what do they think of? Well, they think of, you know, former retired military people going to hospitals and getting medical treatment. But the VA is just a massive organization that does everything from

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

taking care of cemeteries throughout the country, all the veteran cemeteries, the national cemeteries, all the way to suicide helplines for a generation of veterans who have experienced post-traumatic stress. To have somebody like an Elon Musk who has never served go in and just start chopping away at it and eliminating programs without even knowing what they do.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

taking care of cemeteries throughout the country, all the veteran cemeteries, the national cemeteries, all the way to suicide helplines for a generation of veterans who have experienced post-traumatic stress. To have somebody like an Elon Musk who has never served go in and just start chopping away at it and eliminating programs without even knowing what they do.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

taking care of cemeteries throughout the country, all the veteran cemeteries, the national cemeteries, all the way to suicide helplines for a generation of veterans who have experienced post-traumatic stress. To have somebody like an Elon Musk who has never served go in and just start chopping away at it and eliminating programs without even knowing what they do.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

It's not as dangerous as eliminating the nuclear guys that he eliminated that monitored our nuclear programs, but it is pretty frigging dangerous on an individual level for something that Abraham Lincoln created to say, let's take care of those who fight our wars. It just is mind boggling to me. You can't predict the repercussions of the slices to people who work in the VA facilities.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

It's not as dangerous as eliminating the nuclear guys that he eliminated that monitored our nuclear programs, but it is pretty frigging dangerous on an individual level for something that Abraham Lincoln created to say, let's take care of those who fight our wars. It just is mind boggling to me. You can't predict the repercussions of the slices to people who work in the VA facilities.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

It's not as dangerous as eliminating the nuclear guys that he eliminated that monitored our nuclear programs, but it is pretty frigging dangerous on an individual level for something that Abraham Lincoln created to say, let's take care of those who fight our wars. It just is mind boggling to me. You can't predict the repercussions of the slices to people who work in the VA facilities.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

But it's everything from doctors and nurses who get paid a whole lot less working at the VA hospitals than they do working at a major healthcare organization because they have a sense of patriotism, all the way up to the

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

But it's everything from doctors and nurses who get paid a whole lot less working at the VA hospitals than they do working at a major healthcare organization because they have a sense of patriotism, all the way up to the

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

But it's everything from doctors and nurses who get paid a whole lot less working at the VA hospitals than they do working at a major healthcare organization because they have a sense of patriotism, all the way up to the

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

the people who run the cemeteries, which there are hundreds of across the country, and even the people that answer the phones on the VA crisis hotlines for people who are thinking about committing suicide, which the military has the largest suicide rate percentage of any organization other than railroad workers in the country.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

the people who run the cemeteries, which there are hundreds of across the country, and even the people that answer the phones on the VA crisis hotlines for people who are thinking about committing suicide, which the military has the largest suicide rate percentage of any organization other than railroad workers in the country.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

the people who run the cemeteries, which there are hundreds of across the country, and even the people that answer the phones on the VA crisis hotlines for people who are thinking about committing suicide, which the military has the largest suicide rate percentage of any organization other than railroad workers in the country.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

Well, it's tough because the veterans can comment like I'm commenting right now, but the active duty force can't. They, according to civil military semi-requirements, you don't talk about the administration if it's elected by the people. You work for them. So there's this restraint by the military in that regard to even talk about it.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

Well, it's tough because the veterans can comment like I'm commenting right now, but the active duty force can't. They, according to civil military semi-requirements, you don't talk about the administration if it's elected by the people. You work for them. So there's this restraint by the military in that regard to even talk about it.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

Well, it's tough because the veterans can comment like I'm commenting right now, but the active duty force can't. They, according to civil military semi-requirements, you don't talk about the administration if it's elected by the people. You work for them. So there's this restraint by the military in that regard to even talk about it.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

And even guys like me as retired generals, they say, hey, you've got to stay in that zone, too, where you can't really show disrespect to the administration that's been dutifully elected by the majority or, in this case, the plurality of the population.

The Bulwark Podcast
Mark Hertling: Aiding and Abetting a War Criminal

And even guys like me as retired generals, they say, hey, you've got to stay in that zone, too, where you can't really show disrespect to the administration that's been dutifully elected by the majority or, in this case, the plurality of the population.