Don't you just hate it when facts bite you in the ass?

Steven D at Booman Tribune:

Oh, those pesky reality-based facts. Despite the Republicans' best efforts to hide the damage Bush's war policies have done our military, sometimes the truth still manages to sneak its head above the the rising tide of GOP lies, like the one about how well they support the troops. Especially when The Army's top General decides to tell it:

WASHINGTON // The Army's top officer withheld a required 2008 budget plan from Pentagon leaders in August after protesting to Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld that the service could not maintain its current level of activity in Iraq plus its other global commitments without billions in additional funding.

The decision by Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army's chief of staff, is believed to be unprecedented and signals a widespread belief within the Army that in the absence of significant troop withdrawals from Iraq, funding assumptions must be completely reworked, said current and former Pentagon officials. [...]

I guess General Schoomaker didn't get the memo. The one which made it clear that as far as his Commander-in-Chief is concerned his troops are just the tail end of a comma in history. And we all know how worthless commas are. Why waste good money helping them stay alive in Iraq, when those funds could be put to better use by Paris Hilton and friends?

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