While on a closed-door private fundraising tour with George W. Bush today, Senator John McCain said that he will “never surrender in Iraq”, that he will “bring our troops home with victory with honor”.
He apparently thinks that if our troops started coming home to their families within sixteen months they would be perceived as failures and would not be treated with honor by his fellow Americans.
Well I’ve got news for Senator McCain: Our troops should be treated with honor for the victories they have already achieved!
Our troops have done everything that has been asked of them. It is the civilian leadership of people like George W. Bush, John McCain and Donald Rumsfeld that has failed. How dare Bush and McCain try to pass the buck for their failures to the soldiers who have fought with honor on the fronts lines of a war that they had no right to start; a war that John McCain is comfortable with lasting more than 100 years if “necessary”?
And exactly how does Senator John McCain intend to honor the troops when they come home?
Answer: By voting against the GI Bill in lock-step with his fundraising partner George W. Bush and thus denying our veterans improved educational opportunities.
And why would he do such a thing?
Answer: Because he is concerned that if the troops have an opportunity to come home to their families and go to college after a four year tour of duty they will leave the military and diminish McCain’s ability to conduct the wars that he has told us to expect if he is elected as the next President of the United States.
The fact that McCain claims to know little about the economy does not give him a right to focus only on WAR!
It’s time to turn the page!Bob HollisEl Dorado Hills, CA
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