[glatt]

Who dragged the U.S. into Somalia again? Oh yeah, it was the first Bush. With no exit strategy. Like father like son. You can't blame Clinton for that mess. He did the best he could in an unwinnable situation. He should have pulled out sooner. That was his only big mistake.

Soldiers disobeying legal orders got court martialed? Sounds fair to me.

I don't know firsthand about the local leave policy in KSA, Hell, I don't even know what KSA is, but I imagine that Bill Clinton didn't come up with it. You will need to give more information on that to convince me.

I agree, a strong response againt the Khobar bombing would have been nice. Don't see how that has anything to do with the military though.

Downsizing of the military. I always love it when you folks drag that one out and fail to mention that it was the first Bush and then Sec. Defence Cheney who initailly downsized the military when they were in office before Clinton. The vast majority of the downsizing was done by Bush & Co., not Clinton.

Marine honor guard putting on smocks?! Where do you get this stuff?

I think serving in an unwinnable war, without the support you need from your leaders, while having your return date constantly pushed back, when you only signed up for two weekends a month, is much, much, much worse than anything Clinton ever did to the military.

I agree with you that the military didn't love Clinton. But that doesn't mean they like Bush II. They loathe Bush II. You have retired generals coming out against Bush. You never had that under Clinton. And don't get me started on all the scapegoats they are trying to prosecute in the prison scandal so the leadership doesn't have to take the blame. The prison policy came from the White House.

-Edited a couple of the really bad spelling mistakes.