Being one of them, having lost my foot to an rpg I deeply resent that the notion of the president doing his job is wrong. This is a venue for him to reach a certain audience to lead our country.
We who have fought, do not fight with a hand tied behind our back, if we take on fire, yes, we TRY not to kill civilians but I can guarantee you many, many have been killed in our firing.
Until you have held a dying child in your arms you have no right to accuse the commander in chief who has our men in harms way trying to fix the larger issue which is the BUSH debaucle of Iraq and the subsequent forgetting of the war in Afghanistan, Rice said the Taliban had been defeated, you have no right to question his motive for you do not know what is in that mans heart.
I trust him more as a commander in chief and at least we are in the RIGHT war now, not the one where upwards of 1 million Iraqis died and 5000 of my men, over 40 whom I knew personally.
So, in my opinion, it is time for you to either lead, follow or get out of the way, but do not degrade our soldiers by making them out to be stooges in politics.
We are living in a between 8-20 to 1 ratio of kills. Do not EVER again in your life state that our troops are being tied down by our president for the real problem is that we forgot that war in the first place and now we are actively engaging the enemy and as my friends write me, they tell me of great advances and what they are doing to keep your butt safe.
Thank you and cease and desist.