More On Troop Readiness
Posted by Michael Link on September 19, 2007 at 01:26 PM
After Stephanie wrote below about the pro-troop Webb amendment, which would guarantee longer rest periods for troops between deployments, news came that there's going to be an apparently toothless McCain-Warner proposal.
ThinkProgress has more:
McCain said he and Sen. John Warner (R-VA) have teamed up to put together a “sense of the Senate” amendment to express “very clearly that we all want all our troops home and we understand the stress and strain that’s been inflicted on the men and women in the military and the guard and reserves.”
Feeling their pain... but doing nothing about it.
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If the proposal is toothless, it is not a "substitute", it is garbage.
These kids are tired, their equipment is tired. Many have PTSD. Many are having problems at home because they are so mentally beat up by the stress in Iraq with no real recovery time when they get back to the states, that they can't even deal with family life when they get back.
We have no readiness capability to meet new threats.
The Republicans don't care about the toll on these kids and their families.
All they care about is power and money. They are anti-human.
This needs to stop!!!!
Posted by Butte on September 19, 2007 at 04:16 PM
As a independent from Ohio who voted for
Kerry last election who has son in the military
thinks move on .dot com should be condemned for
their mockery of Gen. David Petraeus.
The Senate did that but I'm very displeased
with Obama or Clinton not.
I don't want my son harm in Iraq but also
I don't want our troops made fun of.
Posted by isojeff56 on September 21, 2007 at 07:37 AM
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