We should use the subsidies we give to Israel for veterans benefits....

[liberaliraqvet26]

Veterans (especially combat veterans like myself) that were used as pawns to advance the Likkud- neocon agenda should get home ownership grants, healthcare for themselves and their families, increased education benefits (especially reservists) and tax cuts for life.

Heres where we can get the money...

Since the October War in 1973, Washington has provided Israel with a level of support dwarfing that given to any other state. It has been the largest annual recipient of direct economic and military assistance since 1976, and is the largest recipient in total since World War Two, to the tune of well over $140 billion (in 2004 dollars). Israel receives about $3 billion in direct assistance each year, roughly one-fifth of the foreign aid budget, and worth about $500 a year for every Israeli. This largesse is especially striking since Israel is now a wealthy industrial state with a per capita income roughly equal to that of South Korea or Spain.

from...
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html

[dipsydoodle]

1. The problem is

that you are trying to apply common sense to bunch of thickos which unfortunately never works.

[Poll_Blind]

2. Veterans will never have something as organized or powerful as AIPAC...

...working for them. That's a damned shame and a sad fact.

PB

[democrank]

3. Veterans, especially combat veterans

should receive every nickel of help they need, and then some. Their sacrifices should be honored with more than photo ops and lip service.

If the herd of plastic Rambos in Washington were required to have a dog in the fight for every war they voted for, America would start no more wars.

[The Magistrate]

4. Locking

Flame-Bait.