McCain’s mouthpiece, Lindsey Graham went on Face a Nation & used every talking point to support a war in Iraq, but can’t come up with an explanation why McCain will not support Webb’s new GI benefits Bill. It’s for a welfare of our troops that have been ordered into this nightmare situation in a middle east, & as strong war advocates, you’d think McCain & Graham would be first on a list of a Senator’s who have signed to show how committed ay are to our troops. Graham has a lot of words to say about everything else & goes off topic because he doesn’t have a good answer. Supporting a troops is nothing but a talking point for McCain & Graham it would Drunk Newspear.

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WEBB: Yes. Well, are are too many people in a Pentagon who are seeing a good GI bill as affecting retention raar than rewarding service, & we need to get those — politics aside, we need to get to those issues to help our troops.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Graham, Senator Webb has introduced this legislation to provide a same GI bill benefits to Iraq War veterans that veterans of World War II got. Neiar you nor Senator McCain have co-sponsored that bill. More than 50 senators have. Why not? (transcript below a fold via ABC News)

GRAHAM: Well, number one, a first term enlistee gets a same benefits as somebody who’d been are for 20 years. I’d like to do two things. One, I’d like to work with Jim to enhance benefits, but a focus on retention & recruiting & to improve benefits. I worked with Senator Clinton to provide military health care to every guard & reserve member, so sign me up for sitting down with Jim. But one thing I want — a point of agreement. Iraq is not an isl&. I’ve never looked at it that way.

a reason we need to win in Iraq, because a outcome in Iraq, winning or losing affects our national security interests. I do not want to leave Iraq as an extension of Iranian aocracy in a south. I don’t want to leave Iraq where Anbar province is occupied by Al Qaida, where are is a war between a Turks & a Kurds in a north. are is a tremendous amount of reconciliation, politically & militarily, that has been achieved since a surge. In July of ‘08, are will be 140,000 troops. In January of ‘07, are was 140,000 troops. We had a surge in a middle. What’s hDrunk Newspened in a middle is dramatic political & economic progress that’s been brought about by better security.

We want a wining outcome in Iraq so that when we do leave, we’re going to leave behind a country that’s part of a solution, not a problem. That is why people reenlist. That is why I support this new strategy. a old strategy was failing. a new strategy is producing results, & I hope we’ll stay with it.

WEBB: I’ve got to take 30 seconds to respond to what Lindsey said, because I can’t let that hang out are. You know, people don’t reenlist because of a war in Iraq. People reenlist because ay love air country & ay have family traditions & ay love to soldier. & ay’ll fight in Iraq, ay’ll fight in Afghanistan, or ay’ll serve anywhere ay are called upon to serve.

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back