The White House comes out swinging against the NYT:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2008/05/26/nyt-bashes-bush-memorial-day-white-house-strikes-back
or
http://tinyurl.com/6ozyfo
Once again, the New York Times Editorial Board doesn't let the facts get
in the way of expressing its vitriolic opinions - no matter how misleading they
may be.
In today's editorial, "Mr. Bush and the GI Bill", the New York Times
irresponsibly distorts President Bush's strong commitment to strengthening and
expanding support for America's service members and their families.
This editorial could not be farther from the truth about the President's
record of leadership on this issue. In his January 2008 State of the Union
Address, while proposing a series of initiatives to support our military
families, President Bush specifically called upon Congress to answer service
members' request that they be able to transfer their GI Bill benefits to their
spouses and children. In April, he sent a legislative package to the Hill that
would expand access to childcare, create new authorities to appoint qualified
spouses into civil service jobs, provide education opportunities and job
training for military spouses, and allow our troops to transfer their unused
education benefits to their spouses or children.
As Congress debates the best way to expand the existing GI Bill, Secretary
Gates has laid out important guidelines to ensure that legislation meets our
service members' needs and rewards military service. First, since our
servicemen and women have regularly requested the ability to transfer their GI
bill benefits to their family members, legislation should include
transferability. Second, legislation should provide greater rewards for
continued military service in the all volunteer force.
There are several GI bill proposals under consideration in both the House
and Senate. The Department of Defense has specific concerns about legislation
sponsored by Senator Webb because it lacks transferability and could negatively
impact military retention.
The President specifically supports the GI Bill legislation expansion
proposed by Senators Graham, Burr, and McCain because it allows for the
transferability of education benefits and calibrates an increase in education
benefits to time in the service.
Though readers of the New York Times editorial page wouldn't know it,
President Bush looks forward to signing a GI bill that supports our troops and
their families, and preserves the experience and skill of our forces.
>I guess this just reminds me of the baffling nature of "patriotism"
>when it comes to the military.
>
>We've got a president that for 8 years has, in words, praised
>servicepersons but in action fucked them over at ever turn.
>Blatently.
>
>Yet for some reason, most servicepeople seem to like the guy - or are
>loyal to him. And it just never ceases to amaze me. Here are the
>facts:
>
>1.) Bush sends troops to an ill-thought out war, with no definition of
>success, and therefore no plan for it. Basically a never ending meat
>grinder where the greatest hope of common grunt is to not get killed.
>
>2.) He purposely sends too few troops to do what ill-defined missions
>he sends them on.
>
>3.) He doesn't give them the equipment they need and fight efforts to do so.
>
>4.) He allows and defends shoddy treatments of combat wounded vets.
>
>5.) He openly rejects more benefits for these same troops implying
>that if he gives them benefits they won't fight in his poorly planned
>war.
>
>How do we bottle this product the Bush is selling and people are buying?
>
>Cause it seems to me that in any other circumstances people would
>laugh this guy out on his ass after an hour (at the most) yet here he
>is after 8 years with plenty of military support.
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