Joe Biden blasts John Mccain for voting against GI bill

John Mccain is attacking Barack Obama for not serving in the military. But John Mccain voted against the Jim Webb GI bill. Why does John Mccain hate the troops?
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This Memorial Day let's honor our vets, our troops and the fallen with some truth-telling about service, the price of war ...mostly impacted working families. Before George Bush launched his unnecessary war-of-choice in Iraq gas was two dollars a gallon. It's four now, heading to five...the Bush administration destabilized our world, especially some of the most vital oil producing regions. Before Bush sanctioned torture as a means to get information from our enemies, America was respected around the world...George Bush, against the advice of many of his military commanders, launched his war-of-choice in Iraq we were winning against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan [he] squandered the goodwill we had in the world, and made our country appear weak and incapable of military victory, by launching a dumb war in Iraq, America was both respected and feared and our military capability unquestioned. Today we appear vulnerable to our enemies because Bush has overstretched our military. And John McCain wants to continue these mistaken Bush policies [they] say they are friends of our military...President Bush has abused our sons and daughters by using a provision in the law called 'stop loss' that allows the government to demand extra service, beyond the amount of time a volunteer signed up for. This law was supposed to only be used in a true national emergency, not in some self-inflicted unnecessary war-of-choice. Stop loss has been used to draft our sons and daughters--the ones who already volunteered! While no one else in the country was asked to do anything more than go shopping and enjoy their tax cuts [if they were wealthy]...waving our flag or putting up a banner that says 'Mission Accomplished' or talking about 'victory' in Iraq isn't the same thing as actually showing support for the Americans who fight for us. Senator James Webb has introduced the New GI Bill. It would give vastly improved educational benefits to all our men and women who have served the United States since 9/11. Senator McCain and and many Republicans are opposing it. President Bush says he'll veto it...It's wrong. With the Republicans in the White House all the breaks are going to the wealthy and the privileged. Working America, white or black, Asian and Hispanic is being left behind and actively discriminated against, abused and manipulated. McCain and Bush refuse to trust our troop's patriotism. They say that if educational benefits are increased working people won't stay and serve. They're wrong. Those who serve are patriots. To question their patriotism because of college benefits is a low and mean-spirited insult. The answer to our military's recruiting problems is to have a commander-in-chief who doesn't abuse our military but only sends our men and women into combat as a last resort, for instance as I will send them to Afghanistan and if need be into Pakistan, to hunt down and capture or kill Osama bin Laden. It's time we see through Bush and McCain's loud talk about patriotism and ask them what is so patriotic about pushing working America into bankruptcy by driving oil prices through the roof because of a dumb war on the one hand, and by mostly asking only working Americans, to serve on the other? When was the last time Bush asked our elite to volunteer? What is so patriotic about refusing the sons and daughters of working America the same comprehensive-type of GI Bill our fathers got after World War Two? This Memorial Day let me be clear: I want to honor those who served and serve by ending George Bush and John McCain's war-of-choice. I want to bring our troops home. I want to get back to a fair military were soldiers serve the amount of time they volunteered for not a day more. And when our young men and women have served I want to thank them by providing a first-class education from a grateful nation. With a strengthened military, one that's no longer stretched to the limits and beyond, I will pursue our real enemies and protect our actual security. I want to truly support our troops, not just have photo ops with them. When I am President I will take the trillions of dollars Bush and McCain keep wasting in Iraq, and find alternative energy solutions so that the price of oil won't matter. We'll build roads and railways and schools and create jobs so that working America may prosper and we can all move forward. That is how we'll make America strong again. That is an America our enemies will fear. That is how we'll honor those who gave their lives so that we may live free."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/a-memorial-day-speech-oba_b_103...

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[librophile]

The NEW GI Bill grants a 4 year paid College Education to our returning War Vetereans.

McCain voted against the New GI Bill because the enrollment of new troops have gone down & McCain fears that War Veterans will not re-enlist for a 4th, 5th or 6th Middle East campaign, but would instead choose to go to College paid by the GI Bill.

By voting against the New GI Bill, McCain proves that he doesn't give a damn about our War Veterans. He's more concerned about winning Bush's war in Iraq.

[librophile]

Tideofcrimson--Like a good Ratpublican, you mouth off without anything to back it off!!

Beside the New G.I. Bill, McCain opposed 9 times out of 12 the Health Benefits Increase for War Vets. The US Vets have given McCain a low "D" rating for not supporting them.

Check the Congressional Records you moron. The records DO NOT LIE ... but you, McCain & Palin all do!!

VOTE ON THE SERIOUS ISSUES--VOTE OBAMA~BIDEN 08

[DECIETFULtaco]

Wheres obamas change now?

[0mega101]

Mccain serve in the Officer not enlisted, he had serve the enlist tough life. I was originalv out for Mccain but switch after he oppose the new gi bill.

[PROCLAIMEROFTRUTH]

ACTUALLY, loving your neighbor doesn't entail allowing him to murder you. Unless you live in an attic, and dont realize what is going in in the world,

they will kill you simply because you are an infidel. I would rather live next door to one of those christians anyday.

[mynameisjonas45]

I hate female politicians.

[lordmacrae]

now tell me how happy you are of your children over in a far off country, breathing chemicals and killing inocent people, because the troops I talked to say they hate being there. And when they come home....you can pay for the hospital of your choice to try to save your babies life. So no hatefull answers cause, your wrong and you know it, love is the way brother......HALE THE RESISTANCE!

[calhounboys]

Biden is an effin idiot who was in FACT expelled from Syracuse University for one year for CHEATING! Yet he is one heartbeat away from the White House!

[cwants]

what hero? he has been in prison the whole war, he aint no hero, he is a dickhead!

[onstageagain]

Obama has never shown a iota of respect for military, not once. To want the federal government to renege on its obligation to those who fought for our & others freedom? Liberal feel good programs like taxing smokers 1000% underprivileged childrens health care, thats okay but when it comes to forking out a chunk of change to the warmongering military, well, Obama doesn't go for that! This is only the beginning of the outrages well see towards our military during Obamas reign

[DWNicolo]

McCain is a hero, but he was wrong on the new G.I. bill.