01-23-2007, 02:36 PM
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McCain, Clinton clash over troop morale
I think not. I think telling troops that they have to go back for their fourth tour of duty will lower their morale. Telling them that they are not going home because they have been extended another 18 months will lower their morale. But not everyone feels the same
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WASHINGTON - Congressional criticism of President Bush’s troop surge in Iraq threatens to erode the morale of American soldiers and Marines serving there, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., implied Tuesday at a Senate confirmation hearing for Army Lt. Gen. David Petraeus, Bush's choice to be the new commander in Iraq.
McCain’s raising of the morale question was quickly disputed by one of his potential 2008 presidential rivals, Sen. Hillary Clinton.
McCain and Clinton may get a chance to put their clashing ideas to the test of the electorate in the 2008 presidential election: they are leading contender for their respective party’s nominations.
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McCain raised the morale issue in a question he posed to Petraeus, saying, “Suppose that we send additional troops and we tell those troops, ‘we support you, but we are convinced you cannot accomplish your mission… we do not support the mission we are sending you on’? What effect does that have on morale of the troops?”
“It would not be a beneficial effect, sir,” Petraeus answered.
Clinton disagreed with both McCain and Petraeus on the morale issue.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16773074/
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