When presidents fail to make hard choices, those who serve must make them instead.

[denverbill]

"When presidents fail to make hard choices, those who serve must make them instead. Soldiers must choose whether to stay with their families or to stay in the armed forces at all. Sending our military on vague, aimless, and endless missions rapidly saps morale. Even the highest morale is eventually undermined by back-to-back deployments, poor pay, shortages of spare parts and equipment, inadequate training, and rapidly declining readiness. When it comes to military health, the administration is not providing an adequate military health care system for active-duty service members and their families and for retired service members and their dependents. The nation is failing to fulfill its ethical, and legal health care obligations to those that are serving or have honorably served in the Armed Forces of the United States."


Damn. I couldn't have said it better myself. I wonder if it will be included in the 2008 Republican party platform as well.

http://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2000/conventions/republican/features/platform.00/#45