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The following is an email recieved from VoteVets.org:

Robert Lopez served 8 years in our military, fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan as a tank commander. He was told he’d get his whole education bill paid for when he got out of the service. Mr. Lopez has fought and sacrificed for our country but like so many others, Mr. Lopez has faced the bleak reality of a government that has turned its back on its veterans.

That is why Senators Jim Webband Chuck Hagel proposed the new GI Bill, which would bring back WWII-style standards of providing vets with full tuition, room and board. And thatis why 51 senators have signed on, including 9 Republicans like John Warner,giving this GI Bill tremendous bi-partisan support.

But it isn’t enough. Faced with unprecedented filibusters, the only way to ensure Senate passage of the GI Bill is to get 60 co-sponsors. So far, John McCain has refused. The same McCain who insists he supports our troops. The same McCain who is voting lockstep with the Bush administration (who have also resisted this bill). We need to get John McCain to do the right thing – to sign now and signal to other Republican leaders that we should be strongly behind our vets.

Sign the petition to John McCain!

The original GI Bill transformed American history, providing education for returning soldiers. Not only was this our nation’s moral duty for the unbelievable sacrifices of our World War II veterans, it helped create America’s middle class and spurred decades of economic growth for our country.

Why then is John McCain silenton passing a new GI Bill for our “new greatest generation"?

Robert Lopez thinks John McCain ought to stand in his shoes to know how difficult it is to be a vet and have topay staggering education costs. This is your call to arms. Pass thevideo along and implore your friends to sign the petition.

Click here to watch thevideo and sign the petition today!

VoteVets.org, WesPAC and Brave New Films feel passionately about giving our veterans the support they rightly deserve. Our government owes our troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan the opportunity to receive full educational benefits. These patriots have fought hard for our government; it’s timeour government started fighting hard for them.

Sincerely yours,

General Wesley Clark, Robert Greenwald, and Jon Soltz

Yeah, John uses the troops for his personal political gain and then when it’s time to “put your money where your mouth is” he takes the cheap way out. Unfortunately, McCain displays the Republican Partys’ absolute neglect and abuse of our military which has become prevelant under the repug administration we have been forced to stomach for seven years.

The McCain excuse, with his tongue in cheek, was to say; “We don’t want to make it too benefitial to get out of the service, We could be faced with a serious retention problem".
No, it’s much easier to send the same young men and women over and over again using the backdoor draft called Stop-Loss.