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What is this 'Iraq war' charge on my bill?
Less Jobs. More Wars: What is this 'Iraq war' charge on my bill?
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Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill?
Why Won't McCain Sign the GI Bill? Presenting the most blatant hypocrisy of the McCain campaign.
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Look Out, McCain: Biden Issues a Challenge on National Security | BuzzFlash.org
A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS
by Christine Bowman
Senator Joe Biden is talking national security, and though no longer a candidate for the presidency, he just challenged Republican candidate John McCain on behalf of the Democrats on what some presume is McCain's main strength with voters.
"I think we as Democrats should not shy away from a direct confrontation with the Republicans on national security. The Democratic Party and the Democratic candidates are stronger on National security than George Bush or John McCain. ...
"The Democratic Party is not at all reluctant to debate national security with John McCain or George Bush. We are stronger on it, we will make America more secure and make it safer," he declared in an interview on MSNBC's "Countdown with Keith Olbermann."
In a speech delivered Tuesday at Georgetown University, Biden critiqued the GOP and laid out a Democratic foreign policy vision that contrasts sharply with Bush's and McCain's. He called fear "the main driver of our foreign policy" and said, "Even if you look at the world through this administration’s distorted lens, you see a failed policy. This failure flows from a dangerous combination of ideology and incompetence and a profound confusion about whom we’re fighting."
Biden also said in his speech that McCain's remark about staying "100 years in Iraq" fuels conspiracy theories about America's motives in the region. As he later told Olbermann, "When we say to the Arab world that we would stay in Iraq even in peaceful circumstances, it feeds the assumption that we're there to control their oil and to have a permanent base ..."
As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden said that in two weeks of hearings prior to General Petraeus' much touted testimony, he heard from many in the defense and foreign policy establishments who have come to "the exact opposite conclusion" about the wisdom of a troop drawdown than had General Petraeus, Ambassador Crocker and George Bush.
** Biden talking like a real Senator, doing what he's paid to do! **
** Thank you Joe Biden ** A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS by Christine Bowman ... more -
cbs13.com - Family's sole surviving son denied GI benefits
Spc. Nathan Hubbard, 21, right, was among 14 killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq in August of 2007. He is pictured here with his brother Jason Hubbard.
CBS News
Family's Sole Surviving Son Denied GI Benefits
FRESNO (AP) ― Army Spc. Jason Hubbard was forced to leave the combat zone after his two brothers died in the Iraq war, but once at home the soldier faced another battle: The military cut off his family's health care, stopped his G.I. educational subsidies and wanted him to repay his sign-up bonus.
It wasn't until Hubbard petitioned his local Congressman that he was able to restore some of his benefits.
Now that Congressman, Rep. Devin Nunes, plans to join three other lawmakers in introducing a bill Wednesday that would ensure basic benefits to all soldiers who are discharged under the sole survivor policy. The rule is a holdover from World War II meant to protect the rights of service people who have lost a family member to war.
"I felt as if in some ways I was being punished for leaving even though it was under these difficult circumstances," Hubbard told The Associated Press Tuesday. "The situation that happened to me is not a one-time thing. It's going to happen to other people, and to have a law in place is going to ease their tragedy in some way."
Hubbard, 33, and his youngest brother, Nathan, enlisted while they were still grieving for their brother, Marine Lance Cpl. Jared Hubbard, who was 22 when he was killed in a 2004 bomb explosion in Ramadi Spc. Nathan Hubbard, 21, right, was among 14 killed when a Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq in August of 2007. He is pic... more -
Support the troops PAY YOUR TAXES and more
I am tired of people saying that they support the troops by placing a sticker on the back of there car.
They would never send there child into war nor would they consider joining the service thierself.
B 4 real and pay your taxes and stop asking for cuts in your tax return. PAY your taxes in a time of war.... that is how you support the troops. I am tired of people saying that they support the troops by placing a sticker on the back of there car. ... more -
"Supporting the troops" is not supporting the troops
The whole idea can make your head spin.
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