Where to Send Soldiers: School or War?

[struggle4progress]

by Thea Deley
Informify Staff Writer
May 13, 2008

Last week Sen. Jim Webb (D–Va.) sponsored a bipartisan bill to improve educational benefits for veterans who deployed after 9-11 in the war on terrorism. Republicans, including presidential candidate Sen. John McCain (R–Ariz.), oppose the bill, fearing vets will choose college over re-enlisting ...

Fifty-seven Democrat and Republican senators support Webb’s bipartisan bill, including John Warner (R–Va.), and Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton (D–N.Y.) and Sen. Barack Obama (D–Ill.).

McCain and other critics of Webb’s bill point out that it will increase educational benefits for soldiers who re-enlist, from $40,000 to $90,000 ...

The current educational benefit amount doesn’t cover most state university annual tuitions ...

http://www.informify.com/top-stories/44-us-politics/106-where-to-send-soldiers-school-or-war

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Why not both, but...

...if they are sent to war, it is as a last resort. And not for political purposes and only if Congress sends them.

Not for war profiteers, or by one unstable loose cannon.

[struggle4progress]

2. Publicans and others warmongerz is sayin a good GI bill would decrease reenlistment

I thinkz thatz jest one more good reason to support a good bill

[ColbertWatcher]

3. The way I see it...

...whatever the GOP says, support/vote the opposite.

Always.

[Ilsa]

4. We can't let them come home to go to college.

They might learn that they want a career in something other than occupying a foreign country if we let them do this. And then they'll tell their friends, and then their friends will tell their friends. And before long, we won't have enough soldiers to have a war. And then we won't have a war to go ga-ga over. :sarcasm:

[stillcool]

5. God forbid....

McCain and other critics of Webb’s bill point out that it will increase educational benefits for soldiers who re-enlist, from $40,000 to $90,000