if you want to be really angry go to this link, read, and listen

[dsc]

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6576505

While the draft dodging, chicken hawk sits in our White House, this is what the people he sent to war have to put up with. I was so pissed yesterday after hearing this story I about drove off the road.

[Mojambo]

1. I need no assistance for my rage.

Working retail in December is enough.

[acmejack]

7. I performed that unenviable task over the "holiday season" long ago.

In Redmond at a radioshack (Hey-times were hard. It was 89, so people still possessed a veneer of civility, unlike today. It has to be brutal! All I can say in way of consolation is Illegitmus Non Carborundum!

[stillcool]

2. there was another story recently...

about pilots being grounded if they asked for help. Blowback from all this sucking it up is going to be a bitch.

[Sal Minella]

3. I listened to this all the way through twice yesterday on NPR --

thanks for posting this.

The price young families pay for this terrible war will just go on and on and on.

[muntrv]

4. "SUPPORT THE TROOPS" is a jingle that rings hollow.

[oasis]

5. It seems "Rummy Culture" has saturated our armed services.(eom)

[David Zephyr]

6. Don't go driving off the road, we need you.

Very disturbing, dsc.

[dsc]

8. I'll try not to

I just couldn't believe what I was hearing. Just the thought of two more years is horrible. I had wished that someone would bring this up with Gates before he got confirmed.