The Democrats Who Support George Bush's War

Published: December 19, 2007, 8:02 pm

Tags: daniel akaka, max baucus, evan bayh, thomas carper, bob casey, kent conrad, byron dorgan, daniel inouye, tim johnson, mary landrieu, carl levin, blanche lincoln, claire mccaskill, barbara mikulski, bill nelson, ben nelson, mark pryor, john rockefeller, ken salazar, jon test

Yesterday, twenty-one Democratic senators' joined their Republican brethren and voted to hand George Bush another blank check for Iraq. Why? Because if you ignore the fact that every benchmark laid out by Bush has failed, we're winning. And with only forty or so soldiers dying in Iraq every month, what better way to support the troops than voting to keep them there indefinitely? Well, not all of the troops, because just since that Magical September, 45 soldiers from these Democratic senators' home states have died. And when these senators defend their vote, will they remember those men and women? Senators Lincoln and Pryor, remember: Thomas Martin: It was just devastating. It's the news that hits you in the gut and makes you want to sit down and cry when you hear it. James Doster: Just two weeks ago, 6-year-old Kathryn Doster was excitedly counting the days until her father, Army Sgt. 1st Class James Doster, 37, would get a short

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