Screw The Troops

This Administration has done a lot of bad things for its military personnel. It has cut pensions and it has massively cut programs for the Veterans Administration. It has put its people in harms way without the proper equipment (or right to be there), and it has forced servicemen and women to remain in Iraq well beyond their de-mobilisation dates. Now they are threatening them:

"Soldiers from a combat unit at Fort Carson say they have been told to re-enlist for three more years or be transferred to other units expected to deploy to Iraq, the Rocky Mountain News reported Thursday ... "They said if you refuse to re-enlist with the 3rd Brigade, we'll send you down to the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, which is going to Iraq for a year, and you can stay with them, or we'll send you to Korea, or to Fort Riley (in Kansas) where they're going to Iraq," said one of the soldiers, a sergeant. [A] second soldier, an enlisted man, echoed that view: "They told us if we don't re-enlist, then we'd have to be reassigned. And where we're most needed is in units that are going back to Iraq in the next couple of months. So if you think you're getting out, you're not."

Remember, that both Bush and Cheney ran away from active duty when their country called on them. No wonder they have no respect for the poor patriotic fools who actually sign up.