It's the least we can do to provide these volunteers in our military with a reasonable amount of time to maintain their own families and lives here at home as Bush and the republicans are pressing them forward with repeated, extended deployments in Iraq. If Congress can't bring themselves to restrain their ambitions for our nation's defenders, they should at least provide for their safety, security and well-being in their deployments as something more urgent than a miserly afterthought.
It's not fair or right -- as Bush, McCain, and other republican enablers of this continuing occupation want us to accept -- to pursue 'success' for every politician's ambition in Iraq behind their sacrifices and sell it as a path to some victory. At some point, republicans in Congress have to decide who they believe are more important. They've already demonstrated a disregard and indifference of the will of Americans that they end their occupation. These politicians need to tell us why they believe the lives and livelihoods of the propped-up members of the Iraqi regime are more important than those Americans who they expect to do their fighting and dying.
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