I really feel for you Omar. I’m in kind of the same boat, as I’m headed for Iraq soon. We’re already a bit short of funds for new equipment, and the prospect of mobilizing without additional federal funding is pretty scary. Then you have the whole issue of being sent to do a dangerous job which Congress is planning for us to fail.
It’s all election politics. ALL of the Democratic candidates are basing their campaigns on failure, so if we succeed they lose. A few years ago they were very supportive in the WoT and Iraq, but their political base complained that their platform wasn’t really any different than the Republicans, and they remained the minority party. So the Democrats started campaigning on surrender to differentiate themselves.
The encouraging thing is that if those of us on the ground are successful, there isn’t much chance of the Copperheads in Congress being reelected. Given that my life is now at stake, I’m pretty intent on victory.
