Jesus Christ does this son-of-a-bitch have any shame what so ever. The Republicans just flat out hate the troops, they just hate them.

ABC News

The Bush administration opposes a Democratic effort to restore full educational benefits for returning veterans, according to an official’s comments last week.

Senate Democrats, led by Virginia’s Jim Webb, want the government to pay every penny of veterans’ educational costs, from tuition at a public university to books, housing and a monthly stipend.

Such a benefit was a major feature of the historic 1944 G.I. Bill, which put more than eight million U.S. soldiers through college and is now credited by historians as fueling the expansion of America’s middle class in the post-war era.

But in recent years the benefit has dwindled; under the current law, passed in 1985, veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan can expect Uncle Sam to cover only 75 percent of their tuition costs. That’s not enough, say Democrats and veterans’ advocates.

More than 450,000 used the benefit last year, at a cost to taxpayers of $2 billion, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), which administers the program. The Democratic proposal would cost an additional $5.4 billion a year, the VA estimates — and that’s too much, it says.

This is for education reasons, this is not a defense of the scandal, in fact I hope we impeach Bush for it.

I see a lot of people who are making a huge mistake interchanging the Walter Reed issue and the Veterans Administration. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME…

Walter Reed is part of the DOD Medical System, it is run by the DOD via the Department of the Army. It falls under the DOD budget, the one that is so large that it engulfs every nation on the planets own defense budget.

The Veterans Administration is a cabinet level agency that has many parts, the medical wing of the VA is called the VHA (Veterans Healthcare Administration) and has NOTHING to do with the DOD, or the DOD budget.

I am a disabled vet in the VHA system, and to be honest I (ME) have had great healthcare under the VA system (Been covered by the system for 11 years). I know there are issues, but please people, they are not the same….

You do all veterans a disservice by lumping them together. Once a vet, no matter HOW is discharged from the service, they can get NO CARE FROM the DOD, they must go to the VA. The VA is a long term system for vets, they do not treat people as they come off the battle field.