Sen. McCain voted against the bipartisan Webb/Hagel Dwell time amendment. This amendment would have required troops to be home for the same amount of time as they are deployed. If you are going on your third tour to Iraq just 90 days after you returned from your last one...Sen. McCain thinks you don't matter. Even if that means that your propensity for PTSD is now much higher.

Sen. McCain has voted against increasing veterans and military health care 29 times. These bills would have fully staffed the va and dod hospitals, money that could have been used to clean up Walter Reed before it became a national disgrace. If you have to wait in line for an increasing amount of time because they are...

Sen. McCain voted against the bipartisan Webb/Hagel Dwell time amendment. This amendment would have required troops to be home for the same amount of time as they are deployed. If you are going on your third tour to Iraq just 90 days after you returned from your last one...Sen. McCain thinks you don't matter. Even if that means that your propensity for PTSD is now much higher.

Sen. McCain has voted against increasing veterans and military health care 29 times. These bills would have fully staffed the va and dod hospitals, money that could have been used to clean up Walter Reed before it became a national disgrace. If you have to wait in line for an increasing amount of time because they are an increasing amount of veterans and not enough staff...Sen. McCain doesn't care.

These are just 3 examples of the myriad of times that Sen. McCain has used his vote to say "your service doesn't matter". Now we have Sen. McCain's daughter acting as an agent for the campaign saying your service doesn't matter.

This isn't the first time we have heard claims like this from the Republican side of the house. When asked about Iraq on the Today Show, Laura Bush said "no one suffers more than their President and I do."

Your service does matter, to me and thousands of veterans like me. There is one veteran that your service does not matter to though, and he is running for President.

UPDATE! Meghan McCain apologizes, well not really....
From her Blog:

http://www.mccainblogette.com/postings/090908_1856.shtml

Well, it was quite a day to say the least. Being interviewed on the Today Show and The View this morning were very humbling experiences.

As a regular viewer, I know how many people watch these shows and are curious about some of the answers given by the guests. Well, having experienced the "hot seat" for myself, I can tell you it can be a bewildering and overwhelming experience.

I want to clarify my comments about my family "understanding war unlike any other". My family understands the demands of war, in reference to our family's generations of servic...

UPDATE! Meghan McCain apologizes, well not really....
From her Blog:

http://www.mccainblogette.com/postings/090908_1856.shtml

Well, it was quite a day to say the least. Being interviewed on the Today Show and The View this morning were very humbling experiences.

As a regular viewer, I know how many people watch these shows and are curious about some of the answers given by the guests. Well, having experienced the "hot seat" for myself, I can tell you it can be a bewildering and overwhelming experience.

I want to clarify my comments about my family "understanding war unlike any other". My family understands the demands of war, in reference to our family's generations of service to the nation, including that of my grandfather, father and brothers. But obviously, there are many American families that have made, and are making, the ultimate sacrifice in the pursuit of defending freedom. And those families and those sacrifices should be honored above all else. I regret my comments as they were delivered. I certainly did not mean to diminish the sobering fact of these families' sacrifices in any way.

If nothing else, I hope this brings greater attention to the suffering these families endure when the unthinkable happens. I will certainly work to do a better job of calming my own nerves while being a newcomer on the media circuit. And thanks to everyones' kind words of support throughout the day.

I'm not sure about what kind of apology that is. I don't even think it is an apology. But it is a good example of how to try to apologize for something without being sorry about what you did.

Indeed, "to apologize for something without being sorry about what you did," appears to be a grea political skill.

At least she clarified that other families knew about war and sacrifices.

While respecting the troops is, of course, right on; I'll have to confess that to growing frustration about the Pentagon & some of our generals.

I hope that's okay. Their inability to make up even half-way credible lies and propaganda is annoying.

They too, like the White House might want to realize the importance of following the Constitutional procedures of Declaring War.

Not only is in dangerous for individual manics to think they can hatch all their little covert actions and secret wars all by the...

Indeed, "to apologize for something without being sorry about what you did," appears to be a grea political skill.

At least she clarified that other families knew about war and sacrifices.

While respecting the troops is, of course, right on; I'll have to confess that to growing frustration about the Pentagon & some of our generals.

I hope that's okay. Their inability to make up even half-way credible lies and propaganda is annoying.

They too, like the White House might want to realize the importance of following the Constitutional procedures of Declaring War.

Not only is in dangerous for individual manics to think they can hatch all their little covert actions and secret wars all by themselves but they continue to not realize that wars work better when you have the real support of the people.

The real support of the people is very different from pathetic attempts to have to continually sell us false reasons, such as Iraq having something to do with 9/11 or WMD's.

I continue to remain uncertain as to what we think we will "win," when we invaded this nation to get something that was not there.

(Of course, since Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or WMD's maybe there were other reasons...like Oil).

I guess wanting the oil is the reason to want to continue the occupation.

It's too bad. Everybody I know wants to see bin Laden killed or captured -- you know, like everybody had real support for the military to do this...and what did they do?

Fools.