Top Stories on the Our Troops Newsladder, 3.13.08

by: Jason Forrester - Veterans For America

Sun Apr 13, 2008 at 22:36

Our own Bobby Muller and votevets.org's Jon Soltz responded to the president's Iraq war speech in a press conference - watch the video. (crooksandliars.com)

Brandon Friedman explains the mathematics behind the President's announcement that on August 1st he will shorten deployments from 15 month tours to 12 months tours, and how that won't actually affect a single soldier until August 2009, 7 months into the next president's administration. (vetvoice.com)

John McCain still hasn't signed on to Jim Webb's 21st Centuty GI Bill, which would provide the first update to the bill since 1947. (huffingtonpost.com)

Barack Obama stated that he would like to repeal the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, saying "We're spending large sums of money to kick highly qualified gays or lesbians out of our military, some of whom possess specialties like Arab-language capabilities that we desperately need. That doesn't make us more safe." (armytimes.com)

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