McCain Objected To My Military Suicide Prevention Bill

[White Eagle]

I know there is something wrong with McCain now. This is the most hard hearted thing he has done, IMO. He, for his time as POW, should know that our military needs this bill.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/...ing-military-suicide-prevention_n_799798.html


WASHINGTON — In 2008, a young sergeant named Coleman S. Bean took his life. After completing his first tour of duty in Iraq, he had come home and been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Nevertheless, he was deployed to Iraq a second time. Bean had sought treatment for PTSD but as a member of the Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), he found fewer resources available to him than to veterans and active-duty members.

In April, Rep. Rush Holt (D-N.J.) introduced legislation named after the late soldier meant to provide more resources for suicide prevention to Reserve members. The House in May incorporated it into the National Defense Authorization Act for 2011, but it was stripped from the final version, and Holt is pointing the finger at the lead Republican negotiator on the Senate legislation, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).

"Twice now, the Senate has stripped this legislation from our defense bill," Holt told The Huffington Post Tuesday. "It's hard to understand why. I know for a fact, because he told me, that Sen. McCain doesn't support it. Whether he's the only one, I don't know. But there was no effort to try to improve the language or negotiate changes; it was just rejected, and I think that is not only bad policy, but it's cruel. It's cruel to the families that are struggling with catastrophic mental health problems."

 

[Kulindahr]

He thinks they should make it the way he did -- on his own.

Except they aren't valuable to captors and able to get special privileges so things are easier.

 

[frankfrank]

WHY does McCain HATE the troops so much?

Imagine if he was actually the President now. It could have happened...with Sarah Palin waiting in the wings just in case.

 

[Kulindahr]

WHY does McCain HATE the troops so much?

Imagine if he was actually the President now. It could have happened...with Sarah Palin waiting in the wings just in case.

I dunno. He's good at hating, though. He hates patriotic Americans who happen to be different, hates free speech, hates religious freedom, hates all sorts of things.

He makes me ashamed to have ever been a Republican.

 

[hotatlboi]

In 2000 he'd have been a great president

John McCain in 2000:

I recognize and celebrate that our country is founded upon Judeo-Christian values, and I have pledged my life to defend America and all her values, the values that have made us the noblest experiment in history. But public -- but political intolerance by any political party is neither a Judeo-Christian nor an American value. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values, they are...They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

How far he has fallen.

 

[Supersix]

McCain should have retired a long time ago. But in all fairness, is it possible that he doesn't believe the bill would be helpful, or has too much other pork thrown in? I'm not a shrink. But just calling a bill 'suicide prevention' does not mean it is so, not the way politicians lie, and attach pork totally irrelevant to the original bill. Has anyone analyzed the content of the bill, do we know if it's just all hype or not? Don't ask me to do it, I'm not a shrink, and I'm not a lawyer. I'm just saying that to be fair, these questions have to be asked. We all know how pork gets thrown in all the time.

 

[Kulindahr]

McCain should have retired a long time ago. But in all fairness, is it possible that he doesn't believe the bill would be helpful, or has too much other pork thrown in? I'm not a shrink. But just calling a bill 'suicide prevention' does not mean it is so, not the way politicians lie, and attach pork totally irrelevant to the original bill. Has anyone analyzed the content of the bill, do we know if it's just all hype or not? Don't ask me to do it, I'm not a shrink, and I'm not a lawyer. I'm just saying that to be fair, these questions have to be asked. We all know how pork gets thrown in all the time.

This should bring back a wonderful one....

The big lie "USA PATRIOT" Act.

 

[Apollo]

McCain should have retired a long time ago. But in all fairness, is it possible that he doesn't believe the bill would be helpful, or has too much other pork thrown in? I'm not a shrink. But just calling a bill 'suicide prevention' does not mean it is so, not the way politicians lie, and attach pork totally irrelevant to the original bill. Has anyone analyzed the content of the bill, do we know if it's just all hype or not? Don't ask me to do it, I'm not a shrink, and I'm not a lawyer. I'm just saying that to be fair, these questions have to be asked. We all know how pork gets thrown in all the time.

The bill was attached to the larger Defense Authorization Bill. So I would imagine, if there was pork around the bill, it would have been because it was attached to the Defense Authorization Bill.