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Originally Posted by nmap
I question whether Ms. Clinton or Mr. Obama would treat the troops well, and I suspect their policies would make the task of our soldiers more difficult. If I'm in error, I will look forward to correction.
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nmap - this is a quote from a news source. Take it for what it's worth...
McCain boasts on his website that he “fought to extend the availability of G.I. bill education benefits for Vietnam veterans.” Yet he has been notably silent on extending those same benefits to today’s veterans. Perhaps, like the Pentagon, he is resisting the bill “out of fear that too many will use it.”
McCain has repeatedly voted to funnel billions of dollars to fund the war in Iraq, whose costs along with the war in Afghanistan, according to some experts, have already totaled more than $3 trillion. By contrast, the cost of the new G.I. bill is projected to be about $2.5 billion a year — roughly the cost of U.S. operations in Iraq for one week.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/20/...nores-gi-bill/