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Commentary: It's time to do right by our troops: McClatchy Washington Bureau | 05/30/2008 | Commentary: It's time to do right by our troops
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By Joseph L. Galloway | McClatchy Newspapers
Wonders never cease! There we were, well down the road to naming the presidential nominees for both major parties, without any of the candidates addressing anything but peripheral finger-pointing nonsense and the daily media-generated crisis, when suddenly a real and serious issue — veterans benefits in a time of war — has bubbled up.

The questions, as noted before in this space, center around a proposal to improve GI Bill college benefits so that today’s troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan might receive the same level of support that their grandfathers received after World War II.

A bill sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., which has drawn broad bipartisan support in both houses of Congress, would do precisely that: Provide new veterans with sufficient money to pay the tuitions charged by state-run universities, plus a modest stipend for living expenses.