Why We Cannot Win by Al Lorentz

"Because the current administration is more concerned with its image than it is with reality, it prefers symbolism to substance: soldiers are dying here and being maimed and crippled for life. It is tragic, indeed criminal that our elected public servants would so willingly sacrifice our nation's prestige and honor as well as the blood and treasure to pursue an agenda that is ahistoric and un-Constitutional.

It is all the more ironic that this un-Constitutional mission is being performed by citizen soldiers such as myself who swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States, the same oath that the commander in chief himself has sworn."

This statement is written by a non-commissioned officer (NCO) in the US military in Iraq. As reported in the Christian Science Monitor, this NCO is now facing charges for disloyalty and insubordination (link to Salon).

The rest of the CS Monitor article goes on to describe the Bubba administration's attempts to keep the press "upbeat" about Iraq. Other than the Orwellian moment that this presents, we can also conclude that it is a definite attempt to keep the Bubbas in the dark about the real mess in Iraq. The rest of the world, on the other hand, is no dupe. Amazing to see the fate of the entire world in the hands of Bubba voters.