Evan Bayh: “Getting troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan right is a critically important issue that, if confirmed, I will follow…”

if there are Americans who are willing to lay down their lives for our country and make that kind of sacrifice, and we can enable them to be that kind of patriot without harming our national security, not only is it better for them, it is…

This is outrageous. How can this possibly happen?

It is a practice I refer to as hostage taking for unrelated reasons.

I will make one comment I do not expect you to respond to, but a skeptic might look at all this and say what was really at work here was a choice between an eventual orderly restructuring or a disorderly restructuring that could have been…