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(CBS News) DAYTON, Ohio - A woman at a rally here tearfully asked Mitt Romney on Saturday why her Army daughter is still in Afghanistan nearly a year after the death of Osama bin Laden. He seized on her question to accuse President Obama of failing to clearly communicate the mission to U.S. troops serving there.
Vicki Chura, 54, of Fairfield, Ohio, said her daughter calls home constantly from Bagram Air Base, where she serves with the 82nd Airborne Division, and is confused about why she is still there. She asked Romney what he would do to speed the withdrawal of U.S. troops.
"Her first deployment, she never once said 'I want to come home,'" Chura said of her daughter, who has been in the Army for more than three years. "This deployment has been extremely hard, not only for her, but for my husband and I. Every email, every time we Skype, we hear 'I want to come home now'. There is no mission here. We have no definition of a mission."
Romney jumped on Chura's complaint and attacked Obama on the war. "If your daughter is not familiar with the mission that she's on, how in the world can the commander in chief sleep at night, knowing that we have soldiers in harm's way that don't know exactly, precisely, what it is that they're doing there?" he asked.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57390114-503544/romney-to-mother-of-army-daughter-how-can-obama-sleep-at-night/?tag=cbsnewsSectionContent.4
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Romney is a piece of shit
Scuba
(53,475 posts)... they're doing there, except they're pretty damn sure they're getting screwed.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)For their country?
Don
DCKit
(18,541 posts)Republicans are immune to education.
obamanut2012
(26,080 posts)It is such a quagmire, now.
Having said that, I currently have three extended family members currently in the military, two of whom have served tours in Iraq, one of those having served two tours in Iraq and one in Kuwait, one after the other. If you join the military, that's what can happen: they pretty much own you and your life. Which is just one reason why I never have wanted to be in the armed forces.
Ms. Chura's daughter just has to gut it out until she gets sent back to Ft. Bragg, or, if she's lucky, to Germany.
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)During the lead up to both invasions and occupations I was so much against it I think I came close to being banned from DU over it.
I can remember a few of us being really militant about it.
Sorry about all the trouble I caused back then Mods.
Don
ibegurpard
(16,685 posts)who was laughingly participating in pro-Vietnam demonstrations at Stanford and then got an exception for serving a Mormon mission.