As to SCHIP veto, it SHOULD be vetoed: why should President Bush or any successor(s) be accused of "not sending the money" when we all know cigarette and tobacco use is now almost as low as before tobacco came to Europe, thus hardly enough money CAN be raised from taxing it...goodness, what next? A tax on whalebone corsets? This isn't like during the 1960's, when literally everybody smoked.

Speaking of things presented as the USA still being just like it was during the 1960's, today, I found a new PSA from MoveOn, and forwarded a complete copy to the DNC and RNC via email; in within relevant part, the MoveOn PSA says quote:

"Yesterday, an amazing thing happened. After the Senate's shameful vote, and after President Bush called MoveOn "disgusting,"1 our email started to fill up with messages like this one:

I'm currently in Iraq. I do not agree with this war, and if I did support this war, it would not matter. You have the RIGHT to speak the truth. We KNOW that you support us. Thank you for speaking out for being our voice. We do not have a voice. We are overshooted by those who say that we soldiers do not support organizations like MoveOn. WE DO.

YOU ARE OUR voice." [End of verbatim citation]
 
As the header remarks in re forward of said PSA, I made the following observations:

"Apparently, the manifest majority of American troops stationed in Iraq...while on duty IN Iraq, mind you...are breaching rules about force protection and are so mad at Bush they're emailing MoveOn.org to tell them Bush is a Nazi pig and that they want to see MoveOn nail the come by chance...er, no reason given then why these alleged "troops" don't, say, desert. Like those who call for a Department Of Peace, inter alia, such malarkey adverts from MoveOn reflect self-serving, specious, and highly dubiously-sourced propoganda which makes it look like A) the USA has a 1960's industrial-military complex, and B) the USA went to Iraq and elsewhere to rape the land(s) for the profit, and exclusive profit, of the USA...so peaceniks aren't quivering in front of Mahmud Alibabajihad, no, they're saying he's righteous and wants to help Iraqis like they want, see, working with or without Qaeda to "take over ministry of Iraqi oil in a noble way, unlike Bush and Iraqis who with or without Bush don't want Iranian rule...now go green, folks, collectivism and ever-diminishing quality are the only road to peace!"."

Wherefore, I submit that such relevant MoveOn malarkey in fact does not help troops, but rather labels them aggressors in the Mid-East and complicates their service…at a time Alibabajihad paints “down with the USA!” on missiles in parades and whether or not ANY USA troops will be in Iraq or the Mid-East, and his intentions are not clear for the USA, Iraqis, and indeed the world.

Making people in Latin America and elsewhere think their leaders might be right that the USA has this 1960's-style industrial-military behemoth might get the votes of some while scaring them into thinking we've been "beaten" by Socialists so what can we do but do it their way at home, but since nobody makes that an official campaign plank all it's doing is putting drag on troops.