While at Casa Kleiman, I see that the Bush administration has decided to end the military careers of the officers in charge of the soldiers who mouthed off to the press. I agree with Mark´s earlier post that the law forbidding the troops from criticizing their civilian commanders is a Good Thing even if Republicans and the media never seemed to care back when the Clenis was the commander in chief.
But, there´s one part missing here. The issue isn´t simply that back during those golden years of peace and prosperity, if the military said nasty things about Clinton, the media reported it and the Republicans advertised it gleefully - the issue is what would have happened if the civilian leaders had tried to punish the military. There would have been national outrage about the vindictive draft dodging Slick Willy going up against those fine men.
In this case, we have a mean little vindictive wartime deserter destroying the careers of men, currently getting their asses shot off in the desert fighting this unjustified war, because people under their command violated the law.
Where´s the outrage?
Heh.
