Via Atrios, Iraq War veteran and Democratic Congressman Patrick Murphy:
We had a saying in the army: Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
Well, the past four years, the Republican-led Congress followed.
They had their chance, and they followed lock-step as this president led our country into an open-ended commitment refereeing a religious civil war.
For the last four years this Republican Congress followed lock-steps as my fellow soldiers continued to die in Iraq without a clear mission, without benchmarks to determine success, without a clear timeline for coming home.
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To those on the other side of the aisle who are opposed, I want to ask you the same questions that my gunner asked me when I was leading a convoy up and down Ambush Alley one day. He said, “Sir, what are we doin’ over here? What’s our mission? When are these Iraqis gonna come off the sidelines and stand up for their own country?”
So to my colleagues across the aisle: your taunts about “supporting our troops” ring hollow if you are still unable to answer those questions now, four years later.
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