It's The Constitution Sir

In an earlier post I chided the administration and the Republican Party for resorting to the tactics of attacking their critics instead of responding in a reasonable and logical way. Today on a day that is nearly sacred to me and millions of other veterans he has chosen to use a speech that should be honoring the men and women who have fought and are fighting for this country to sling political mud and once again attack his critics. If the President is saying that his critics and or the opposition party looking into the activities of this administration leading up to the war and finding wrong doing is not patriotic then he obviously doesn't know why soldiers serve in this nations military. (By the way Mr. President one member of your administration has been indicted for issues surrounding the war.) I don't know what Mr. Bush did during his National Guard service but during my 27 years of active military duty and several combat tours I was defending every citizen of this country's right to voice their opinion regardless of the atmosphere surrounding the comments. That is what this country is about. Free speech Mr. President or did you forget about the constitution again. You Mr. President are supposed to be the leader of this nation and its armed forces. You, I believe should be setting the example. If your actions and those of your administration were honorable in their activities leading up to and during this conflict then you should welcome any and all scrutiny of those activities. You Mr. President should be most incensed at classified information being released that could threaten our national security and should fire at a minimum and prosecute as a matter of course anyone who committed such an act. One of my earlier post quoted "Lead, Follow, or get the Hell Out of the Way" and you Sir need to do just that. Don't disrespect our nation’s soldiers by slinging mud and spewing sanctimonious political bull in a forum that should be honoring all those who have served and fallen for this nation. We soldiers put our lives on the line for the citizens of this country's right to free speech.

Those are The Sergeant Majors thoughts on that.