On MSNBC, and the other cable hawkers of government propaganda this morning, veterans were absent, despite the constant invocation of veterans day. All the photos and discussion were of active-duty troops in the various US occupations. None of the kids with missing limbs or brain parts were shown, the actual veterans, nor that single-payer Hell, the VA medical system and its inmates. It was all lies about the glory of war, by a caw-cawing bunch of chickenhawks,