Howie Klein has a great post on downwithtyranny.com about a new plan by the Bush administration to use the word "leaving" while continuing the same failed policies that have created the mess we're in today.
The Bush Regime's chief of ideological purity, bathtub boy Grover Norquist, is asking Bush to just throw in the word "leaving" now and then to confuse the kind of people who watch Fox-TV (the GOP base) "The one-paragraph explanation of what we’re doing in Iraq has to have the word ‘leaving’ in there," said Norquist. "If Bush would move to ‘leaving,’ then other people, including the MoveOn.org people and the [Democrats], move to a more extreme position than you have, because they have put themselves in the anti-Bush position."
We owe our troops more than just lip service. As our troops have a sworn duty to defend our country, we have a duties to them.
It is our duty to be honest with our troops, to not mislead them and to not ask them to sacrifice unnecessarily.
It is our duty to provide our troops with the best equipment, the best intelligence, and the best planning to ensure that they can quickly and efficiently achieve their mission with as little loss as possible.
It is our duty to bring our troops home when the mission is complete, or when there is no mission or plan.
Howie Klein points out in his post that Tom Reynolds is one of the most vulnerable incumbents in Congress. Reynolds's vulnerability is in large part because he has chosen to look out for the best interests of George Bush, not our troops. It's this type of misplaced loyalty that unnecessarily keeps our troops in harms way.
This administration and its supporters in Congress are choosing to pay lip service to our troops rather than fulfilling their duties to them. It's time for a change in Washington, DC. It's time for real leadership by people who understand that they have duties to the people they lead. It's time for Representatives who lead by example.
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