...the bill, which would dramatically increase educational compensation for American troops, has run into some unexpected resistance, both at the Pentagon and now from McCain, who has remained silent on the issue, saying he had not studied the bill close enough.
...the reason for the opposition is especially ridiculous. Bush administration officials, and apparently McCain, "worry that a more generous and expansive GI Bill would create an incentive for troops to get out of the military and go to college."
Just last week, Wesley Clark and Jon Soltz highlighted why this is nonsense: "[I]t is morally reprehensible to fix the system so that civilian life is unappealing to service members, in an attempt to force them to re-up. Education assistance is not a handout, it is a sacred promise that we have made for generations in return for service."
― Steve Benen in Salon.
Seriously: Is John McCain crazy? I mean it, is he insane?
Oh right, this is why more decorated, served-in-uniform soldiers have played leading roles in my political party than his. And we're the ones who are supposed to have spit in the faces of our returning veterans.
John McCain. What a "maverick."
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