I have a fundamental question for you two – a really simple basic question. One that every American should be asking themselves right now as you – and the rest of our Senators – get ready to return from your month-long break.
When the former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said that our troops were at their breaking point, when the Department of Defense reported that our current deployment policies are compounding the wounds of war, causing mental health problems among our troops to skyrocket, and that one of the primary causes was our current policy of deploying troops back to Iraq and Afghanistan without adequate dwell time at home, why didn’t you do something about it?
Submitted by Carole Borges on Thu, 2007/08/09 - 8:10am.
On the heels of President Karzi's visit to Washington, where he openly stated he was coming to talk to Bush about his concern over civilian casualties, the British have now become more emboldened to speak out. From their perspective American troops are causing problems that are hampering the Brits efforts to "kick-start" reconstruction efforts..
