Voting against the surge to send reinforcements to help our soldiers sure as hell was not assisting them. Therefore, if he did not assist, he turned his back on them.
The surge isn't going to help either...the Administration should have no credibility left on the issue of Iraq...every prediction they've made has proven terribly wrong. The only thing that would assist our troops now is to get them out of that hellhole. Saudi Arabia is threatening to go into Iraq to protect the Sunnis from Iranian-backed Shiite death squads? Good...let them. Let all of the middle eastern barbarians kill each other. Let's just make sure none of our fellow Americans are in the middle of it