John McCain claims that his military service is one of his qualifications to be commander in chief. I seriously doubt his dedication to the American military. His voting record shows his lack of concern for our bravest men and women.

John McCain missed 10 of the past 14 votes on Iraq.

John McCain in September 2007: voted against the Webb amendment calling for adequate troop rest between deployments.

John McCain in July 2007: voted against a plan to drawdown troop levels in Iraq.

John McCain in March 2007 was too busy to vote on a bill that would require the start of a drawdown in troop levels within 120 days with a goal of withdrawing nearly all-combat troops within one year.

John McCain in February 2007 didn’t even bother to show up to vote against a resolution condemning it. For such a strong supporter of the escalation, McCain didn’t even bother to show up and vote for it.

John McCain in June 2006, voted against a resolution that Bush start withdrawing troops but with no timeline to do so.

John McCain in May 2006, voted against an amendment that would provide $20 million to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) for health care facilities.

John McCain in April 2006, was one of only 13 Senators to vote against $430,000,000 for the Department of Veteran Affairs for Medical Services for outpatient care and treatment for veterans.

John McCain in March 2006, voted against increasing Veterans medical services funding by $1.5 billion in FY 2007 to be paid for by closing corporate tax loopholes.

John McCain in March 2004, once again voted for abusive tax loopholes over veterans when he voted against creating a reserve fund to allow for an increase in Veterans’ medical care by $1.8 billion by eliminating abusive tax loopholes. Jeez, McCain really loves those tax loopholes for corporations, since he voted for them over our veterans’ needs.

John McCain in October 2003, voted to table an amendment by Senator Dodd that called for an additional $322,000,000 for safety equipment for United States forces in Iraq and to reduce the amount provided for reconstruction in Iraq by $322,000,000.

John McCain in April 2003, urged other Senate members to table a vote (which never passed) to provide more than $1 billion for National Guard and Reserve equipment in Iraq related to a shortage of helmets, tents, bullet-proof inserts, and tactical vests.

If he believes that we should stay the course for as long as possible he should be willing to support the people he puts in harms way.

John McCain is not a friend of the American Military.

http://pameladrew.newsvine.com/_news/2006/08/30/345603-government-pr-spending-tops-400-million

What has it ballooned to by now, given all the failures of this administration?

There’s a huge spin industry around Washington, D.C. and they’re hired to deal with problems like this. Karen Hughes is the brand spanking new Global Vice Chair for Burson-Marsteller. The company hired her given her outstanding job of winning the hearts and minds of the Muslim world.

The corporate-crats can’t have any dirty laundry getting out.

Congress better ride this nag hard until those “covering up” the Army’s deplorable treatment of our troops are the ones ousted and that the whistleblower be reinstated and compensated (made whole).

That’s why they have to steal the election – they are putting all the memes in place now. HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF VOTERS are being purged in OH alone – that is just one state.

The democrats have given the repugs a free-pass on voter caging. Greg Palast reported months ago on how the fall election has ALREADY been stolen (.pdf).

Hi Frosty, privatization of the public school system has been under way for some years now also. It isn’t obvious but why does each school have such enormous admin bldgs now and as many administratiors as they have teachers, doing what?

Also why is funding for each school now dependant on a “sucessful” football team. I think we all know about the problems this has caused.

We must have expensive stadium and equipment for sports even if we can’t afford teachers, computers, humanities such as art and music. It has become nothing more than a training organization for corporations where students who are not atheletes are indoctrinated for the corporations.

And the MSM will tell us it is good…

http://at5thestate.blogspot.com/2006/02/geeks-gone-wild.html

The republicans, if allowed will privatize your schools . . .

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This is already happening in Florida.

So if anyone here lives in Florida, be sure to vote “no” on amendments 7 and 9 in November.

7 makes it even easier to give tax dollars to religious groups (who are free to discriminate in hiring, service, etc.), specifically religious schools.

9 makes it easier to starve public, and accountable, schools and fund private, and unaccountable, schools with tax dollars.

nofltwlt Says:
The BIG question is, why are members of the GOP, the Bush Administration, the neocons and the supporters of these groups not outraged by these conditions and the firing of the person who publicized them.

They are the ones that made it happen. They want to operate in the dark and un-regulated and this guy shined a light on their nefarious actions so he has to go. They are not true patriats.

check this link for gop support for veterans….see what vets think of them. A few republicans got a c grade, the rest were d’s and f’s for republicans. Check out how they rate democrats.

of course the vets do not really represent the military, it is represented by a majority republican managment, you know the lifers, etc.

PEACE

Don’t ask Gi-Gi such a tough question, OK? Any answer it gives, will be a telling one; if it says “Yes, I do” then it will have to blame BushCo, if it says “No”, well then we will have a true response.

actually I suspect the trolls will avoid this thread as they always do on threads covering the abuses of veterans. The cowards.

HECKUVA JOB.

Skeptic, it appears that there is money to be made by privatizing the military. How much has halliburton and blackwater made doing the job that the military did for itself in wwII?

See frosy’s post @ 14 for evidence that this specific issue is a result of contractors.

The republicans, if allowed will privatize your schools, police, highways, ect. They say it works better that way. Sadly, they have no proof that that is true but people buy into it anyway.

If these people were true patriots they would hold this administration accountable and not let them sweep this and hundreds of other nefarious issues under the rug.

Democrats/liberals are better people than republicans/conservatives.

Wayne,

Don’t ask Gi-Gi such a tough question, OK? Any answer it gives, will be a telling one; if it says “Yes, I do” then it will have to blame BushCo, if it says “No”, well then we will have a true response.