Conservative Maven: Military Lacks Confidence in Bush Adminstration

Although we disagree on much, I sometimes find myself nodding to Media Lizzy's words. Crooning over her latest fantasy lover's decision to enter the fray, M.L. lets drop this little nugget: "it is the Knights (our military) whose judgment and confidence we must restore."

"Restore" -- 1.to bring back into existence, use, or the like; reestablish: to restore order; 2.to bring back to a former, original, or normal condition, as a building, statue, or painting; 3.to bring back to a state of health, soundness, or vigor.

Restore being the perfectly apt word because the confidence of the military in their civilian command is neither healthy nor sound. Nor should it be after all that this administration has put the military through for their own perverse goals.

From the start of this regime's tenure, Rumsfeld and Wolfy began a piecemeal destruction of the military. The wrongheaded, fantasy-inspired creation of a "lean, mean" fighting force meant nothing less, and nothing more, than serious cutbacks in the expense of the modern army.

Sending a too-small and too-stripped down force into two fronts (does anyone pay attention to Afghanistan anymore?), created the the maelstrom which our fighting men and commanders will still be struggling to navigate even after this cadre of incompetents are relegated to History's trash heap.

So it is hardly surprising that today's Knights question the Administration's judgment and lack confidence in the Commander-in-Chief. It still surprises me, however, each time a bona fide conservative pundit like M.L. blurts it out.

But, Lizzy has this much right -- one of the tasks facing the next administration will be to restore the military and to restore the confidence of the military in civilian command. Which is why is is so vital to put someone in the White House who refuses to be an apologist for the failures and blunders of this cabal of criminals; someone who thinks that the failed policies of the Bush boyz needs to be jettisoned -- not fixed.

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General Pace's Judgemental Intolerance

In a display of what has become the all too typical intolerance of the Bush regime, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff proclaimed homosexuality "immoral". General Pace told the Chicago Tribune that his verdict was rendered by his upbringing which taught him what was moral and what was not. The General, the progressive guy he is, appears to be in favor of throwing all the 'god damn faggots' in jail:

"As an individual, I would not want [acceptance of gay behavior] to be our policy, just like I would not want it to be our policy that if we were to find out that so-and-so was sleeping with somebody else's wife, that we would just look the other way, which we do not. We prosecute that kind of immoral behavior," Pace said.

Hey, General, wake up. No one is prosecuted for adultery today. Unless, of course, you want to bravely lead us into an era of honor killings and stonings. I mean, as long as it is consistent with your upbringing, I'm sure everyone will be happy to go along.

Well, I guess we should be thankful that he left out bestiality and pedophilia as moral equivalents. Too bad he isn't spending less time protecting us from gays and more time protecting us from, ohh, i dunno, bin Laden?

(Photo Credit: Gen. Pace & Friends, White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

UPDATE: Gary, at Declarations of Pride, quite effectively rips Pace a new one (helpful, since the General's orignal isn't working -- it is too tightly clenched right now).

Media Lizzy, a conservative blogger, takes the General, and his apologists on the right, to task for the bigotry:

He's a four star general. He's a Marine. He has served our nation honorably for nearly FORTY years. Yesterday, he opened his mouth and flushed his reputation for ideological fairness down the toilet. . . . Since I am a straight girl, I can't possibly imagine how his irresponsible and bigoted remarks strike at the heart of gay folks serving in uniform. However, as a Christian, it upsets me that he feels compelled to mete out judgement on the private lives of men & women serving honorably in uniform. . . .

Why my fellow Republicans fail to see the problems with such commentary escapes me. Such behavior is part and parcel of why the GOP lost its majority in the US House and US Senate in last year's midterm elections. . . . Republicans attacked the Kerry-Edwards campaign for bigotry & intolerance. Today, they are defending General Pace's offensive comments.It is embarrassing. . . .

Not to mention the effect this type of comment has on our foreign policy.... and our ability to properly defend our reputation as champions of Human Rights. You can't defend only kids in Africa, or poor immigrants flooding across our Southern border, but ostracize gay Americans or the folks in New Orleans' Ninth Ward... it is hypocrisy. Which is the political problem Republicans refuse to face....

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