Pentagon's biggest 'enemy'

Everyone who's served in the U.S. military can attest to this fact: The military often is its own worst enemy.

It's especially true today and the military can blame itself.

Neocons, those far-out Republican rightwingers, pushed George W. Bush into launching war prematurely on Iraq in their dreamy-eyed odyssey to force democracy on other nations at the barrel of a gun.

"You go to war with the Army you have," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said truculently when reports of poorly equipped combat troops reached folks back home. Waiting until troops were properly equipped never dawned on neocon eggheads who push around President Bush like a college fraternity pledge.

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