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The Biggest Hypocrisy of McCain's Campaign

Posted by ZP Heller, Brave New Films at 11:23 AM on May 20, 2008.


When will McCain support our troops?
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VoteVets.org has launched a new ad today, in which veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan implore Senator McCain to vote for the bi-partisan Webb-Hagel GI Bill.

We need to keep the pressure up on McCain to support our vets. It's one of the biggest hypocrisies of his campaign.

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Tagged as: veterans, john mccain

ZP Heller is the editorial director of Brave New Films. He has written for The American Prospect, AlterNet, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Huffington Post, covering everything from politics to pop culture.


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McCain just ignores the reality on the ground in Iraq.
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Posted by: thoughtcriminal on May 20, 2008 11:42 AM   
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He's not exactly alone in this. Take a look at what a US raid on a private Iraqi residence looks like - and imagine it was your home instead:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=a5c_1211255574.

Winning more hearts and minds every day...

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victory
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Posted by: JoshuaLudd on May 20, 2008 12:30 PM   
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McCain talks incessantly of victory and bringing our soldiers back honourably. When you insist on victory in a war that never should have been fought you are already increasing the folly and outrage of that war. When you know you are wrong you don't have to press through to some supposed and likely illusory victory anyway. The only honourable way to bring our troops home is to bring them home as soon as possible not after continuing towards some concept of victory is untenable because of all the deaths and the debts run up in a war that never should have been.

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McCain Defends ‘Enron Loophole’
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Posted by: ThePublicRecord on May 20, 2008 1:13 PM   
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http://www.pubrecord.org

McCain Defends ‘Enron Loophole’

The Public Record
May 19, 2008

Published in : Nation/World

Sen. John McCain says he opposes the $307 billion farm bill because it would dole out wasteful subsidies, but his chief economic adviser Phil Gramm also wants to stop its proposed regulation of energy futures trading, a market that was famously abused when Enron Corp. manipulated California’s electricity prices in 2001.

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The Montgomery G.I. Bill was meant to help, not provide a welfare check.
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Posted by: ABetterFuture on May 20, 2008 10:14 PM   
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I was getting $640/month 3 years ago, for a $1200 sacrifice during boot camp/advanced training.

1) The G.I. Bill funds are one of the few solvent investments in the record of the federal government.

2) What are the costs of the proposed plan, what are the benefits, and will it actually benefit soldiers and citizens?

3) Is it a reliable idea, or is it another Ponzi scheme, like so-called social security?

These are important questions, and they need answers, regardless of the cries of so-called "patriots" who would railroad our country into financial ruin, either by war or by entitlement.

Support the troops by not supporting "getting them dead", and then work on supporting them in a benefactor status, if that is what our coutry's taxpayers choose.

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