This is Why it is Important

Ramon Jimenez, left and wife his Maria del Rosario Duran react while responding to questions during a news interview about their son Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, Friday, May 25, 2007, in the Queens borough of New York. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., has been missing since a May 12 ambush about 20 miles outside Baghdad killed four soldiers and their Iraqi interpreter. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

I know people think I am crazy getting so worked up about about a Congressional vote. The above photo shows why it matters. Hunter from Daily Kos explains better than I can why it matters:

And in the intervening three months between then and now, somewhere around 300 more Americans will have been killed. While Congress and the president yet again declare a mulligan on the entire issue and decide to wait a few months, that's how the time is being bought, and that's how it's going to be paid for.

That's not OK, and it's not going to be OK.

It's OK to make halting progress forward. It's even OK to try, and sometimes fail. But it's not OK to announce political success in the face of legislative acquiescence. That makes you look like charlatans -- it makes you (quite properly) look like people who think so little of Americans, of your own constituents, that you honest-to-God expect them to believe any scripted horsecrap you might dish up.

Whenever the fact that Americans are dying in Iraq is mentioned Eduardo makes the very valid point that far more Iraqis are dying. So true - just another horrible tragic part of this evil war.