A Learning Disability

Quite typical of this administration... You need $60 billion to fund the reconstruction of Iraq? No problem. A couple billion more to pay private contractors to provide security? As long as they vote republican... You need 4 billion to pay tuition and living expenses so that the honorable men and women who have served the citizens not only of this country, but of Iraq as well? Do you think the government is made of oil? Need money to help float the expenses of treating that PTSD you developed in the line of duty? Sorry, its just not in the budget this year - the top tax bracket really need their tax breaks, and if we start giving healthcare to our vets, then people will start thinking that children are entitled to it as well....

The federal government should be ashamed of itself for turning its back on our veterans. Bush has given private men and women tax breaks so that they can "stimilate the economy" by blowing the money at Wal-mart on products manufactured in East Asia, but when it comes to paying back the veterans who have answered his call and are putting their lives on the line on the other side of the world, a decent education and mere adequate treatment for their physical and emotional wounds is just too much to ask.

To say we can't to this because it would hurt recruitment is shameful. The best way to end this travesty is to put back a real draft with no easy outs as so many of our "leaders" used in the past. If the civilian population is threatened with the draft, either the new GI Bill is put in place or the citizenry will rise up and end this misbegotten war.

As a soldier overseas who is serving finshing up his last deployements with just months away from being back in the states, it would be nice to see and hear more than "we support you" and "support our troops" from the President and congress. Paying tuition "plus" would be an EXCELLENT way to show support for us soldiers who have served honorably.
Thank you for writing this article and raising awareness.

SGT W.

As a soldier overseas who is serving finshing up his last deployements with just months away from being back in the states, it would be nice to see and hear more than "we support you" and "support our troops" from the President and congress. Paying tuition "plus" would be an EXCELLENT way to show support for us soldiers who have served honorably.
Thank you for writing this article and raising awareness.

SGT W.