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As discussed here, Jim Webb’s bill would have mandated “dwell time” to give our exhausted troops a break. It stood a good chance of passing until Senator Warner did a 180 and withdrew his support. In the end only 6 Senate Republicans showed that they give a damn about the well-being of our fighting men and women.
Senate Republicans blocked a plan on Wednesday to give U.S. troops in Iraq more home leave, defeating a proposal widely seen as the Democrats’ best near-term chance to change President George W. Bush’s Iraq strategy.
The measure to give troops as much rest time at home as they spent on their most recent tour overseas needed 60 votes to pass in the Democratic-controlled Senate; it received just 56 votes, with 44 against.
It had been offered by Sen. Jim Webb, a decorated Vietnam veteran and former Navy secretary. The Democrat said U.S. troops are being “burned out” by repeated redeployments to Iraq, with tours of up to 15 months and less than a year off in between.
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The Republican betrayal of the troops they lionize, whenever it’s convenient, should be repeated loudly and often. Just one military spouse’s opinion.
won’t be able to take the military vote for granted like they did in 2000 and a bit less in ’04.
They hate puppies because puppies just can’t shoot straight. (But most Pugs were puppies once too!)
Oh yeah – puppy body armor might make their taxes go up and they suck at speaking Arabic.
But seriously folks… that did suck that they shot that bill down. Big time.
get every repug you can on record and on cspan explaining why it isnt possible to support our troops
theyll be begging for cloture.
at hearing voices in the wind. Does a hospital ask a neurosurgeon who is dead on his feet to continue to operate for “just another 12 hours”. Of course they dont. The surgeon would in all probability fuck something up and cost them a lot more money than they had earmarked for the procedure. I’m sure another tired surgeon from another specialty might summon up the mettle though, to cut out the tumour which passes for an administration your side of the ocean.