What reports? Any cites, besides those from the Socialist international or people like Jessie MacBeth?
Cuts in VA funding is a talking point from Pelosi and Company, when the Bush Administation did not increase the funding to the levels that the Democrats called for, the left called them cuts. Then the next talking point is that the Democrats are the ones that really support the troops and the Republicans do not. Then the next talking point is that the only way to support the troops is to cut funding for the war and bring the troops home. The the next point involves something about anybody not agreeing is a chickenhawk.
The NCO core has not, and will not be 'decimated' in Iraq like you claim that it was in Vietnam. You don't think there is a bit of difference between 55,000 dead and 3,000? I find that the morale of troops isn't quite as bad when soldiers get off aircraft and find their fellow citizens see them as heros protecting our liberties from Islamic fascism, and not like in Vietnam, when a counter-culture movement denouced all forms of modern western liberalism/capitalism and insisted that our efforts to stop the spread of communist totalitarism in SE Asia was an exhibit of American imperialism.
All the terrorists in the world can't do the harm to the American Army that Harry Reid has done with his political pandering and Nancy Pelosi by sitting on the lap of one of the individuals directly responsable for killing many of our boys.
The other day, I was with a recruiter friend of mine here, and a woman snidely said to him that she 'betted he wished that this horrible war was over and the soldiers could come home,' and he rightly said, 'yes ma'am, but not till the job's done.'
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