Our military and our treasury are not unlimited resources. The war in Iraq is breaking our fine Army and Marine Corps, and we are perilously close to doing damage that will take more than a decade to fix. Our brigades and divisions in Iraq today are at near full strength because the rest of the force has been gutted. We cannot place America in a position of weakness as it just begins its long war against world-wide Islamic extremism. The Republican administration is bleeding our national treasure in blood and dollars with little to show for it.- Major General John Batiste, US Army (ret.)
If you read one thing I link this week - hell, this year - read this. Seven soldiers, fresh out of Iraq with the 82nd Airborne give a realistic view of the war. It doesn't jive with the Bush Administration, their pet General Petraeus, or with whatever Admiral in charge of soldiers and Marines they've had to dig up to justify their sorry excuse for a war plan. More on them here.
Apparently they still have enough rights to speak openly like this. Which is good I suppose, given all the lies coming out of Washington.
Recently retired Major General John Batiste, no liberal by any stretch of the imagination, has posted an editorial on ThinkProgress that fires a volley at the incompetence of Bush and his lackeys.
Meanwhile, the Army Secretary wants to limit the length of deployments, something the administration is completely oblivious to. This is response to news that we are burning out our military.
Things aren't going so well in Iraq, despite Bush's claims. Militias are taking over the power grid there.
Plus there's already major doubts that Petraeus' report won't be hijacked and politicized by the Bushites.
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