Awww ...
Breaking: Webb amendment fails.The Senate just voted 56 to 44 on Sen. Jim Webb’s (D-VA) amendment “requiring that active-duty troops and units have at least equal time at home as the length of their previous tour overseas.” The bill failed to garner the 60 votes needed to move forward.
Does this mean Webb will submit his resignation as Secretary of Defence, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and CIC? Would someone please wake Webb up and remind him he's a lowly senator. And a useless one at that since he's invested in defeat.
Posted by: Terry Gain | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 09:46 PM
so when are you guys going to enlist to relieve the troops who are spending consecutive tours over there?
Posted by: LOL | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 11:12 PM
"--- so when are you guys going to enlist to relieve the troops who are spending consecutive tours over there? ---"
Not that any of us would ever question your patriotism or anything, LOLlerskates... but I wouldn't mind seeing your DD Form 214 before you go chastising other folks about their service or lack thereof.
Meanwhile, how's that impeachment coming along, or that vote to cut all funding for the war?
And remember, the sound of crickets chirping or defeated bills rustling as they drop to the bottom of the rubbish bin don't count as votes either.
Posted by: seekeronos | Wednesday, September 19, 2007 at 11:34 PM
Yep,those democrats are doing a fine job of ending the war.
Posted by: Cindi | Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 06:49 AM
I tell you what, LOL, I'm going to enlist to serve in Iraq on the same day you enlist to serve in Afghanistan. You support the war in Afghanistan, I support the one in Iraq. Let's roll, dude!
Posted by: templar knight | Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 10:30 AM
My DD214 is so old that it was typed.
Done my time, bockwheat. But thanks for caring enough to make presumptions.
Posted by: rwilymz | Thursday, September 20, 2007 at 02:22 PM
I have my retirement papers signed by the right honourable Jeffy Davis himself (may the good Lord rest his soul).
And that was handwritten, back when officers and gentlemen knew the proper art of penmanship, and didn't need those infernal, new-fangled clickety-clackers, and blessed be if they didn't weigh less than a hunn'ert pounds.
I reckon that's good enough for you damnyankee whippersnappers?
Posted by: Pierson W. W. Dilliwithers-Mathers III, Major, Confederate States Army (Retired) | Friday, September 21, 2007 at 04:01 AM