Salon: "Marine declares war on Bush." Iraq war veteran Steve Brozak

is running hard for Congress. And he's turning his campaign into a referendum on Bush's military folly.

By Michelle Goldberg

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Meanwhile, the situation on the ground shocked him. "The number of people there and how they were prepared in terms of equipment and training was, across the board, criminal in terms of its inept management," he says.


He saw the potential for calamity. "What we are faced with today is our active duty force stretched to the breaking point," he says. "The National Guard and reserve systems are broken, possibly beyond repair. We are staring down the barrel of the draft."


"Do the math," he continues. "How many people do we need going forward? How many people do we have? Where are these bodies coming from?"
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In fact, Brozak says, Republicans' contempt for soldiers -- coupled with their mawkish reverence for the military in the abstract -- had been bothering him for a while. He first started souring on his party when the Bush team smeared John McCain during the 2000 primaries; he was outraged by the 2002 attacks against Democratic Sen. Max Cleland, who was tarred as a traitorous ally of Osama bin Laden despite the fact that he lost three limbs serving in Vietnam.


http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2004/09/30/brozak/index.html

and good luck kicking some snivelling gop ass come november.

and it should be thrown back at those "support the troops" freepers and bushbots...

"Republicans' contempt for soldiers"

it will be interesting to see how the republicans attack this messenger.

...good phrase. Good article. Go Brozak.