It Is The Troops Fault

The Armed Forces show a loyalty to the President that is astounding considering:

• When the USS Greeville sunk a Japanese fishing vessel with oil executive donors sitting at the controls, it was the commander who sacrificed his career on bended knee to the president.


• When it was first asked why planes hadn't scrambled on 9/11, the administration answered that there were not enough planes in the area (signifying the Air Force lacked readiness) despite there being an exercise scheduled by the Secretary of Defense placing nearly all planes in the sector on alert.


• When the president landed aboard the Abe Lincoln and spoke in front of a banner saying "Mission Accomplished!", it was noted that the banner was the sailors idea.


• When the nauseating facts emerged about Abu Ghraib, it was clear only enlisted reservists would do time.


• When in the thick of congressional hearings about ugly abuses of taxpayer funds by Halliburton and it's KBR subsidiary, the administration offered that the armed forces would not be able to do the tasks any cheaper.


• When orders are questioned by a military supply company about transporting contaminated, useless gasoline in unarmored convoys with no air support through hostile territory, the word mutiny is allowed to hang in the air like a dark trial balloon.


• When a story about ammo dumps potentially damaging to the president during a close election bursts forth, the presidential debating society of Rice, Guiliani, Cheney et. al suit up and rush forth into the maw of TV cameras to deflect blame anyway they can. It is usually the previous president, the CIA, the enlisted men, or the vacuous, mush-brained democrats who get blamed. Someone other than the president must pay.

Would that we should blame Ceasar for what is the fault of his dominion?