Once again showing that "supporting the troops" is just a slogan, Senate Republicans unexpectedly agreed to debate Senator Russ Feingold's bill that would require troops to begin withdrawing from Iraq within 120 days and cut funding for further combat deployments. Is it because Republicans have finally decided to listen to more than 60% of the American people? Or did they finally realize that the ever-increasing cost in blood and treasure is too high a price to pay? Of course not. It's because Republicans:
...want to highlight the security achievements over the past year under President Bush's troop buildup strategy.
That's right; they want to do a little political grandstanding on the backs of the troops that they claim to support. And to do so, they will cheerfully lie and say the "surge" is a success and that only losing 30 or 40 Americans a month is good news.
To be fair, not all Republicans agreed with the move. Christopher Bond (R-MO) had this patriotic thought about a debate on bringing the troops home:
We don't need to waste any more time on this.