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| April 19, 2007 National Guard Needed At Home Alaska Democratic Party, press release President Breaks Faith with Soldiers by Changing Rules
President Bush has broken faith with U.S. soldiers by changing the rules and requiring a three-month extension of tour for active duty troops and by sending 12,000 more National Guard troops to Iraq, Alaska Democratic Party chair Jake Metcalfe said today. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced Wednesday that, beginning immediately, active-duty Army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan will serve 15-month tours - three months longer than usual. The Pentagon announced earlier this week that more than 12,000 National Guard troops will be heading to Iraq starting in December. Nearly a quarter-million National Guard troops across the country have been mobilized since 2001. Now, four of those National Guard brigades based in Arkansas, Oklahoma, Indiana and Ohio will be heading out again. "Our National Guard troops are needed here at home to handle natural disasters and other emergencies," Metcalfe said. "This is the largest National Guard mobilization since Vietnam. Governor Sarah Palin should be standing up to the President and fighting to keep the National Guard here at home." Tour extensions announced Wednesday affect the roughly 3,500 paratroopers with Fort Richardson’s 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Division; they had been scheduled to return in late September or October but their stay in Iraq has been extended at least until late December, the Anchorage Daily News reported. Alaska has members of its National Guards serving in Afghanistan. "The President's determination to keep our troops in the middle of a civil war that can't be won is putting enormous strain on the troops, their families and our entire country," Metcalfe said. "It's time for the President to work with Democrats in Congress and find a way to get out of Iraq. We need to support our troops by bringing them home, not by sending more of our people over there." |
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