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Rigil Kent wrote:Oh, for frak's sake. Read the article before you starting throwing out the usual "Bush is Bad" tripe. "It blamed the bureaucracy and a "risk-averse" approach by acquisition officials." "Civilian middle management lacks technical and operational currency."

Forgive me if this offends, but I'm getting sick and freaking tired of people automatically blaming the Bush administration for a failing of the system that has been there as long as there has been a military. Remember the story of Washington and his supply woes? I served in the Army under the first Bush administration and Clinton. You know what? This same crap existed then too. My unit went to Desert Shield/Desert Storm without a lot of the gear that we should have had because of the same stupid bureaucracy that existed. My dad - who was a POW in Korea - told me that the same thing existed when he was serving, so pointing at the president and blaming him is flat out absurd.

And yet, despite knowing all that crap, if my knee wasn't flat out FUBARed to the point that the military won't accept me back, I'd still re-enlist because I don't adhere to the belief that these operations are futile. War is hard. It always has been. It's ugly and brutal and bloody and people die in them. I shudder to think what the current American mindset would say if we had the casualty counts of something like WW2 where we lost something like a 1000 guys on a training accident.

And exactly why does the flat out incompetent mayor of New Orleans get a pass? Suddenly, his failings are passed on without even a second look.

Yeah, I'm a little irked. I come here in the hopes of avoiding this sort of crap that seems to permeate every place I go. I'd hate to have to walk away from this place too.

Linda wrote:Well, I have tried not to be too political, but the current administration seems to f*ck up all over the place. New Orleans being one example. It seems the administration thinks material items are to be conserved but people are expendable. Gross generalization, yes, but I am so tired of hearing about young people (and not so young) dying over there for a cause that seems futile.