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Originally posted by Griff
Maybe next time the Dems might consider not playing politics with soldiers lives.
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Griff, Republicans play politics with soldiers' lives as easily as Democrats. In a nation where the soldier is ultimately answerable to the civilian, that's their purpose. War is, nor has ever been anything else than, the enforcement of a political agenda through the harshest means. There is no such thing as a "good war", a "necessary war", a "just war", an "honorable war", that's all crap designed to - hey - win at the ballot box.
And if the Dems had won the gambit, you could bet your ass that you would see a flood of legislation choking off any force authorizations that Bush had gotten already - if not stopping the troops from going, then checking their mandate, limiting their tour, any number of things could have happened.