Republicans Still Voting to Kill Troops

As we pass the fourth anniversary of the Iraq Debacle, here's an excellent post from DailyKos about how Republicans continue to send overworked, under-equipped, and at times physically and mentally unstable troops back to Iraq.

Not only do they continue to show their callous disregard for our troops' safety, they also show their ignorance of very recent history, as some of their fellow Republicans went down to defeat in November 2006 when ads like this one from VoteVets shined the light on their hollow claims to be "supporting the troops".

In a recent vote, the Republican members of the House Appropriations Committee unanimously opposed requiring that the troops sent to Iraq be properly prepared for their mission and protected with armor. Again.

So who did it? Does one of these troop-killers live near you? Let's name names:

Alabama: Robert Aderholt
California: John Doolittle and Jerry Lewis
Florida: Ander Crenshaw, Dave Weldon and C.W. "Bill" Young
Georgia: Jack Kingston
Idaho: Michael K. Simpson
Illinois: Mark Steven Kirk and Ray LaHood
Iowa: Tom Latham
Kansas: Todd Tiahrt
Kentucky: Harold Rogers
Louisiana: Rodney Alexander
Michigan: Joe Knollenberg
Mississippi: Roger Wicker
Missouri: Jo Ann Emerson
Montana: Dennis Rehberg
New Jersey: Rodney Frelinghuysen
New York: James Walsh
Ohio: Ralph Regula and David Hobson
Pennsylvania: John Peterson
Tennessee: Zach Wamp
Texas: John Carter, John Culberson and Kay Granger
Virginia: Virgil Goode and Frank Wolf"