Our country will only have true national security when these pawns (military personel) realize they must rise up enmasse and overthrow this tyrant king (Bush) & his corrupt courtiers.

Supporting our troops is a sacred promise that we should never require our troops to risk that ultimate sacrifice without attempting to make that the last resort.  No one wants to have their life reduced to little more then service to ideals that serve the unrighteous while reducing our very existence to mere bricks in some military wall of injustice.

I joined when I did to be part of something that safeguarded peace justice ad an American way of life.  Today our military is not being used for that purpose.  Our children still believe that when they join and we need that, but with that is a responsibility to speak freely and demand truth from our government.  Our government is inherantly unjust and subject to dreams of EMPIRE.

Ahh, lets not forget that many of these guys had double or triple tours of duty foisted on them. You can’t really make up for that - and that is what this clip of Olbermann’s is really about.

The stress of fighting overseas, the estrangement from their spouses and families, and homesickness amount to cumulative negative pressures which will stay with them for most of their lives.

“Supporting the troops” should really mean (a) not sending them on such absurdly long missions, and (b) retraining them out of the excessively large military anyway.

The way to make it all possible is to stop invading other peoples’ countries. And lets not hear any more crap about “not buying oil from dictators” either, eh - its a worn excuse, too!

Sad that an Army reservist got only two weeks leave before being sent back again. That is a kind of exploitation….....