To Our Troops, Our Vets and their Families...

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During questioning this morning before the Senate Armed Services Committee, General Petraeus said the troops just want to know the American people appreciate their sacrifice.

To Our Troops, Our Vets and their Families who serve in this war....

We appreciate you, the value of your life, the value of your service, more than we can express. That is why those of us who oppose this current occupation of Iraq are doing everything in our power by raising our voices, by supporting particular candidates, to hold to account for their policies, their decisions, their actions those leaders who hold your lives and well-being in their hands.

We each have just one voice, just one vote. But the value of your life weighs heavily on us, just as the value of the lives in the country we now occupy weigh heavily upon us. And there will be much dissection and deconstruction and parsing and partisan posturing and pontificating about these hearings over the next few days.

But our goal is clear: To bring you home...safe, alive, and whole.