The Fog of War

In the early days of the failed Iraqi invasion, Donald Rumsfeld said a lot of things that just didn't make any sense. At least no sense for the leader of an invading, aggressor army.

Words like liberators.

Phrases like "open arms."

And, the classic, "Fog of War."

The ever lasting 'fog of war' remains and obscures the carnage but not the leadership failures.

Chambliss, Deal, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and nearly every GOP member supported the war. Now, they refuse to support our troops. Especially the troops still obscured by the fog of war.

Liberal newspapers have covered the total disgrace at Walter Reed Army Hospital; the horrors of longer deployments and shorter times back in the US; and the black holes in the VA's long term care for disabled combat veterans.

Now, another liberal paper cuts through the fog to reveal another horror, the long term loss of life by suicide among former combat troops.

In a new study, deaths through suicides and psychological mortality will take more of our soldiers than the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mostly because our leadership invaded with the 'army that we have' not the army that was needed and supported in such a long term disaster.

How many must die, how many must be crippled, and how many must wither away before our nation can see past the smoke screen called by Rumsfeld, "the fog of war?"

Link to story by the AFP.