The Ride Home

I'm glad to read that Dems are thinking back Jim Webb's bill to guarantee troops time with their families in between tours in Iraq. Personnally I always throught that was the bill Reid should have picked his filibuster fight over. First because it is the RIGHT THING TO DO. Second because it offered the clearest media narrative of how "support the troops" is not synonymous with "stay in Iraq until the President says we can go home." I just can't even imagine (ok actually I can) McConnell explaining how letting Senators vote on giving troops time at home will embolden "the enemy" or perhaps how the troops are so committed they'd rather wander the streets of Iraq and wonder when the next IED will go off than hold their children.

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