The fourth-ranking Democratic senator [Patty Murray, D-Wash] said [1], "The president can call on Democrats to follow him in lockstep all he wants, but when it comes to caring for our veterans, we are not about to start taking advice from George Bush." Nearly 30,000 of our troops have been wounded in Iraq [2]. 38 percent of soldiers and 31 percent of Marines report psychological conditions [3] such as brain injury and PTSD after returning from deployment. Among members of the National Guard, the figure is much higher — 49 percent — with numbers expected to grow because of repeated and extended deployments. "Follow him in lockstep". Humpty Dumpty has fallen. The emperor wears no clothes. We just need to impeach Cheney, then Bush, so we can put our country back together again. As a society we are stagnating, no regressing. That we cannot or will not take care of our veterans is just a small indication of this administration's, and their supporters, inability to maintain, much less enhance, a civil society.