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President Barack Obama's Tuesday evening speech announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq generated heat on both sides of the aisle, with Republicans complaining he did not give George W. Bush enough credit and Democrats complaining, "This is what you chose to talk about with the economy and our seats in the @!$%#ter?!"
But an advocate in Garden Grove zeroed in on an almost throw-away part of the address.
"Whether you left the service in 2009 or 1949, we will fulfill our responsibility to deliver the benefits and care that you earned," Obama said of the military. "That's why I've pledged to build nothing less than a 21st-century VA [Veterans Administration]."
