For all intents and purposes I’m a troll on DKos. The same diaries that I write here I post on other blogs, more conservative blogs just for the sake of gaining a different perspective from different people. I believe in low taxes though im lower middle class, I believe in strong national defense because I’m a soldier who has served 3 tours in Iraq, I believe in conservative social values, and although I am an independent conservative and mostly vote republican, I am not duty bound to any one person or political icon.
And although I think that the Bush administration has done many, many things wrong, I could still find it in my heart to forgive them...until now.
My brother, who is in Iraq (also on his 3rd tour), found out about the 3 month extension for all troops from his pregnant wife in Savannah, GA. Excuse me, but shouldn't the soldiers have been the ones to break the news to the wives, rather than vice versa? The military has a chain of command for a reason; that purpose, in this instance, should have been for the commanders to inform the troops on the ground first, rather than to have everyone, troops and families alike, find out the same way. After seeing the grief of my sister-in-law and parents as they told my brother that he had a 3 month extension, I vowed that the effectiveness of the Bush administration is finished in my eyes. Different people find disgust in this administration for different reasons. This reson, though it is simple, it what irks me the most.