Not to be cynical, but how is swimming in the Dead Sea, and visiting holy sites going to get Dustin McDaniel in touch with what America’s soldiers are facing in Iraq and Afghanistan? Statements like this really give you an insight into what motivates folks like this – cheap political points…again.

LITTLE ROCK – A trip to the Middle East with attorneys general from other states will help him understand a region where Arkansans have died and are still risking death, Attorney General Dustin McDaniel says.”We have Arkansas men and women who have died and are suffering even now in harm’s way overseas and in the military,” McDaniel, who has been in Israel since last week, said in a telephone interview. “This is the most volative part of the world and definitely directly impacts people of Arkansas, what happens here and how it happens here.”

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