Anger Building

If this is true I'm going to hurt myself punching my fist into something.

A rumor I heard - troops in some areas of Iraq are having food rations cut, having to sign for ammo on a per-round basis, and are being told it is because the Democrats in Congress have cut off the funding for the troops.

This is exactly the kind of thing the Republicans would do. These people will be coming back to the US one day, and they will be angry at the Democrats and Volvo-driving liberals who "betrayed them." Bush started a war and lost it, and The Party is setting up to blame liberals and Democrats for the loss.

This would be, if true, an outright lie to our troops to deliberately underequip them and depress morale. Nothing would be more disgusting than to damage the troops and then blame it on the Democrats. No funding decisions have been made by this Congress yet. Nothing. I know that the idiots who supported this war are desperate to assign blame elsewhere, but could they be this conniving, to plant a seed in the mind of the soldiers, who would then relay it to their families and out into the larger world, perpetuating the myth that Democrats solely exist to hate the troops, a myth that was rebutted by a retired Army Maj. Gen. just last night:

“We are in the midst of recovering right now from a constitutional crisis where you had the executive trump the other branches of government,” Eaton said. “Thank god” Congress changed hands in November, he said, giving us “a chance to unsort and figure out how to get out from under this.”

Eaton lamented that so many service members believe that conservatives “are good for the military.” “That is rarely the case. And we have got to get a message through to every soldier, every family member, every friend of soldier,” that the Bush administration and its allies in Congress have “absolutely been the worst thing that’s happened to the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps.”

I'm furious about this right now, and am extremely desirous to get to the bottom of it.