The current shabby treatment of our brave troops by thePublicans is nothing new - they did the same thing during and after every single war we have ever had - with the possible exception of their “good” war, WWII.

Aside from that one shining exception, the Publicans have always demonstrated their contempt for the troops by attempting to shift the cost of casualty onto the backs of the troops.

From the first moment, a week and a half ago, that I looked into General Kiley’s disingenuous, dissembling face, watching him lie and sweat - sweat and lie - I said, “That man should be fired!”

When an institution falls apart, when the wheels come off, as with GM/Ford etc., or as with Enron, when the books catch fire because nobody was watching the till, you go after the management because it was their job to oversee all this stuff. If you owned a restaurant chain, and your franchise in city X had a lot of complaints about service and food quality, and then the books come up short, and YOU don’t act, as the regional manager, then it should be YOUR job on the line.
Walter Reed, while not a restaurant, is an institution charged with providing health services to our sick and injured troops. If it’s not been run well, then things have to be changed, and the people responsible for running the place should rightly be let go. A good manager is part detective, part bloodhound, and part scotsman, doesn’t take ‘no’ for an answer, and doesn’t rest until things are right. And, a good manager also knows they’re only one bad review from being out of a job, which gives em extra incentive to be good managers. Donald Trump said it all:"You’re fired!”

Bush/Cheney want to overwhelmingly appease public opinion and to save their prestige so they have to ask General Kiley step down from his job even he just got only 2 weeks ago. But the more these guys are trying to bestir themselves the deeper they’are submerged.

Nobody can save them except they know how to vanish themselves by bowing down to impeachment.