One of the biggest Republican lies is that conservatives support the military. As this article with 33 links shows, conservatives only care about starting wars - they have never cared about taking care of the people who fight them on their behalf. ___Contrasted with all that is the history of Democrats and the military. For instance in 1936 the Democratic Congress finally gave WWI veterans their promised early bonus through passage of the Adjusted Compensation Payment Act.[18] In 1944 Roosevelt signed the G.I. Bill of Rights,[19] the first such legislation of its kind which provided WWII veterans college or vocational education, low interest zero down payment home loans and unemployment compensation. In 1952 Truman signed the Veterans Adjustment Act into law offering benefits to Korean War veterans. In 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Veterans Readjustment Benefits Act, which further improved benefits accorded to veterans. ___Most recently, in 2010 President Barack Obama signed a landmark law repealing the ban on gay men and women serving openly in the military, fulfilling one of his major campaign pledges and casting the issue as a matter of civil rights long denied. President Obama said at the time of the signing: _“No longer will tens of thousands of Americans in uniform be asked to live a lie, or look over their shoulder in order to serve the country that they love.” ___Even after campaigning to extract the US from the Iraq war so the US could concentrate on fighting our real enemies, Obama continued operations in Iraq until 2011 when it was deemed safe to withdraw American troops. Obama continues to press the war in Afghanistan and has not recklessly withdrawn as conservative myth claims. Currently, troops are scheduled to leave Afghanistan by the end of 2016. __In spite of this record, Republicans still hammer the idea that they are strong on the military and the Democrats are weak. Mitt Romney announced last fall, “I will reverse President Obama’s massive defense cuts. His claim of defense cuts was immediately debunked, however.
Posted on: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 18:08:14 +0000
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