[Lecie]

You need to read this commentary again. It's not defaming the military. It's giving Hell to some of the inept politicians (read liberals) running lose in DC and elsewhere who have held the military in disdain for years.

[zarf]

I think you missed the point. It's a slap at The Defense Dept and State and the White House for not having a better plan post war.....

A pretty gutless article if you ask me. Seems like a Democratic attempt to walk the tight rope of praising the military while not directly trashing a popular president.

If the author had any balls, she'd call a spade a spade and lay it out there for all to see.

Alas, she only has ovaries.

[Theresawithanh]

Yeah? So what about these comments from the article?

"In short, we're sorry, as our hokey president himself might have put it, that you rushed to Baghdad only to be left holding the bag.

"We're sorry that our hardy-har commander in chief dropped like the dopiest of deus ex machinas onto the deck of an aircraft carrier and used you for the cheapest of all cheap photo ops."

I'm sorry too, sorry that I read the article.

[jrushing]

You need to read this commentary again. It's not defaming the military. It's giving Hell to some of the inept politicians (read liberals) running lose in DC and elsewhere who have held the military in disdain for years.
I think that you're somewhat correct about this. I did agree with some of her points but think the overall tone of the column is anti-American. It's like the, "I'm against the war but support the troops" comments.
The headline in my paper read "To the GI's, from our sorry country".
This plus printing it on Memorial Day set me off more than the article!

[Michael.SF.]

You need to read this commentary again. It's not defaming the military. It's giving Hell to some of the inept politicians (read liberals) running lose in DC

I think his first read was essentially correct. This is a MAJOR BARF article.

It was nothing more then a slam piece against Bush, who is insulted numerous times in the aricle.

These people (Leftist's hiding as supporter's of the military)cannot stand the fact the war in Iraq was executed brilliantly, virtually to perfection.

Now they try to say we did not plan or prepare for the post war period. They know better then to slame our Military personnell, but dammit, they have to slam somebody.

Scumbags, that is all they are.