The Credit Card Commander in Chief

Mr. Bush's Bad Misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing grievous harm to our national defense and security in three clear cut ways the main stream media have reported too little on:

A. Enlistments are below quota
B. Re-enlistments are being rejected, even with $30,000 cash inducements
C. Our highly trained officer corps is looking for exit strategies into the civil sector

Clearly, the men and women with the best knowledge of the ground truth in the Middle East are voting with their feet against Mr. Bush and his policies. Sadly, Mr. Bush and his team are turning our 1st rate military into a paper tiger bought and paid for with low cost Chinese loans. Because Mr. Bush refuses to raise taxes to pay for his wag the dog war, he is forced to run it on our credit card. So now we have Bush as the leader of the first credit card war. What a legacy: The Credit Card Commander-in-Chief.

For a compelling essay on this, read The Not-So-Long Gray Line by LUCIAN K. TRUSCOTT IV Published in the New York Times on June 28, 2005. Mr. Truscott was a class of 1969 graduate of West Point.

Posted by Jock Gill at June 28, 2005 8:28 PM | TrackBack