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John Mc Cain Scuttles the Armed Forces

Brandon Friedman of vetvoice.com details the atrocity
“Yesterday VoteVets.org delivered a petition with 30,000 signatures to the office of Senator John McCain. Through that petition, we asked him to support Senator Jim Webb's new GI Bill. And less than 24 hours later, we have an answer:
"Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, seemed to give a thumbs down to bipartisan legislation that would greatly expand educational benefits for members of the military returning from Iraq and Afghanistan under the GI Bill...."
The reason for McCain's refusal to support the bill is about the most disturbing rationale one could imagine....Officials in charge of Pentagon personnel worry that a more generous and expansive GI Bill would create an incentive for troops to get out of the military and go to college.”
Some things are so vile and contemptible there is no response to them.
Many years ago I attended a lecture given by Simon Wiesenthal the famous Nazi hunter. Somebody handed out picture postcards. Depicted was an SS Officer posing for the camera his right foot on the neck of a prisoner.
An older man in the audience rose to ask Wiesenthal for one name with an address.
Today, I recalled the emotion with which he spoke.

posted on Apr 16, 2008 4:44 PM ()

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Well with his proposed corporate tax cut, he couldn't afford this..
shows where his priorities really are...give it to the guys that make the bullets not to the ones who take them...
comment by strider333 on Apr 16, 2008 7:33 PM ()
The world turned upside-down when the Supreme Court elected Bush President in 2000. John McCain would mean four more years of the same upside-down non-thinking. But the voters deserve what they get. You would think the last 8 years would matter to them next November.
comment by jondude on Apr 16, 2008 5:59 PM ()
God forbid we have an educated former military...
comment by ekyprogressive on Apr 16, 2008 4:49 PM ()

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