Webb: "No President in History has Vetoed a Benefits Bill for those who've Served."

Webb: No president in history has, has vetoed a, a benefits bill for those who’ve served. So on the one hand, we have this rhetoric, which goes to what I was writing saying, “This is the next greatest generation, these guys are so great.” And then we see this president, he’s fine with sending these people over and over again where they’re spending more time in Iraq than they are at home. He’s fine with the notion of stop loss, where we can, we can make people stay in even after enlistments are done. And then we say, “Give them the same benefit that the people in World War II have,” and they say it’s too expensive.

But Bush still says that he'll veto. Support for the Republicans is through the floor, and this is Bush's parting gift to McCain? Supporting the troops, after they finish serving, is "too expensive" whilst Bush fights a war which he refuses to ask the country to pay for.

This war is supposedly a war for the very survival of civilisation, and yet Americans are asked to make no sacrifice for it - other than Bush's noble decision to give up golf - indeed, they are enjoying tax cuts whilst fighting for their civilisation's survival.

Am I the only one to see the utter hypocrisy of this? "It's noble, the whole of our civilisation is at stake, but the next generation will have to pay for it?"

Is that what represents joined up thinking in the Republican world these days?

God, these losers are so going have their arses kicked in November.

Tags: Think Progress, Jim Webb, GI Bill, President Bush, Meet The Press