Iraq vet: ‘Bush let our warriors down’
August 29th, 2008
From AP/USA Today, Chicago Tribune, youtube.com:
Tammy Duckworth, an Army helicopter pilot who lost both legs and injured an arm in Iraq, walked onstage on prosthetic legs at the Democratic convention to castigate Republican John McCain for backing an administration that has “let our warriors down.”
“Our troops are courageous, strong, fierce. This administration has redeployed them until they are overstretched, stressed and strained,” said Duckworth, now director of the Illinois Department of Veterans’ Affairs.
Duckworth is among those rumored as a possible appointee to Obama’s Senate seat if he becomes president.
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