No vacations for GIs

Just before seeing WallDon's post (below) on GWB's vacation allowance, I had read this piece, "Ground Meat", at Booman Tribune, summarizing a newspaper article, "Fatigue cripples US army in Iraq", from the British Observer.

The vignettes in the article are heartrending, and overall it reinforces the desperate situation our erstwhile leaders have created for the military and on a somewhat different plane for the nation. Both pieces are worth a read.

And of course this article stands in unbelievably harsh contrast to the recent, much ballyhooed Op-Ed by those leftist war critics, O'Hanlon and Pollack. One might read today's post by Glenn Greenwald based on an interview with O'Hanlon, in which Glenn substantiates the point that O'Hanlon & Pollack based their article on a military-organized junket, speaking with military-arranged (and presumably military-approved) interviewees.

Looks like the British reporter, Peter Beaumont, at least talked to real people. What a novel idea!

Certain people, starting with Mr. 9-Weeks, are pretty much just traitors to this nation. "Support the troops!"