Thursday, May 01, 2008

John McCain's 100 Years in Iraq

If John McCain becomes President, there will be more stories like this:
SeattlePI:

.....Two Fort Lewis soldiers were killed in April.
Pfc. William T. Dix, 32, a combat engineer, died last Sunday in Kuwait in noncombat circumstances while preparing with his newly arrived battalion to enter Iraq.
Sgt. 1st Class David L. McDowell, 30, an Army Ranger leading a platoon on his seventh deployment to either Iraq or Afghanistan, was mortally wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan on Tuesday....

Let me repeat that...... on his seventh deployment to either Iraq or Afghanistan....

Why did this young man have to be on his seventh deployment???? I think that there is no reason that someone must serve a 7th deployment. What has been done to the Army that this has to happen? Can John McCain support these types of decisions?

Contact your Senators and Representatives and tell them that you think that these long, repeated deployments are wrong.