Because with Democrats like Lynn Woolsey doing their best to demoralize them, these guys need every ounce of support we can offer.

US soldiers of the 3-187 Infantry 101st Airborne Bravo Company keep watch from a house rooftop during a patrol in Bangi village, Andar district in Ghazni province on January 6, 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorised deployment of an extra 1,400 US Marines to Afghanistan to help counter a foreseen Taliban offensive ahead of mandated US troop reductions, a report said on January 6. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

A US soldier of the 3-187 Infantry 101st Airborne Bravo Company stands guard during a patrol in Bangi village, Andar district in Ghazni province on January 6, 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorised deployment of an extra 1,400 US Marines to Afghanistan to help counter a foreseen Taliban offensive ahead of mandated US troop reductions, a report said on January 6. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

A US soldier of the 3-187 Infantry 101st Airborne Bravo Company walks during a patrol in Bangi village, Andar district in Ghazni province on January 6, 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorised deployment of an extra 1,400 US Marines to Afghanistan to help counter a foreseen Taliban offensive ahead of mandated US troop reductions, a report said on January 6. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

US soldiers of the 3-187 Infantry 101st Airborne Bravo Company patrol in Bangi village, Andar district in Ghazni province on January 6, 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorised deployment of an extra 1,400 US Marines to Afghanistan to help counter a foreseen Taliban offensive ahead of mandated US troop reductions, a report said on January 6. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

US soldiers of the 3-187 Infantry 101st Airborne Bravo Company walk during a patrol in Bangi village, Andar district in Ghazni province on January 6, 2011. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has authorised deployment of an extra 1,400 US Marines to Afghanistan to help counter a foreseen Taliban offensive ahead of mandated US troop reductions, a report said on January 6. AFP PHOTO/SHAH Marai (Photo credit should read SHAH MARAI/AFP/Getty Images)

US sergeant first class Kyle Lyon from 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat team, 101st Airborne Division asks Afghan farmer Seyed Mohammad (R) to show his farms on a map during a patrol in the village of Khosrow Olia in Arghandab Valley of Kandahar province on January 6, 2011. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has authorised deployment of an extra 1,400 US Marines to Afghanistan to help counter a foreseen Taliban offensive ahead of mandated US troop reductions, a report said. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

US Private Timothy Goldsmith from 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat, 101st Airborne Division brushes away the dust as he searches for Improvised Explosive Device’s (IED) during a walking patrol near the village of Khesrow Olia in Arghandab Valley of Kandahar Province on January 3, 2011. AFP PHOTO/BEHROUZ MEHRI (Photo credit should read BEHROUZ MEHRI/AFP/Getty Images)

Spc Andrew Vanderhaeghen left, from Rochester, MN looks on as Spc. Moore Charles from Angleton, TX of 2nd Platoon Bravo Company 2-327 Infantry scan his gun during a patrols in Chowkay district in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan near Pakistan border on Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011.(AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)