[Snowden]

This is outrageous. When the Republican party is out of office after 2008 (if it retains a majority in Congress after next year's election to begin with), it may be a generation before it gets another chance to lead over the Democrat Party. Why? Ask any Liberal thinker. This is only one of the many complaints that is surfacing again and again. Our army was the best-armed and supported in the world not long ago.

We know this is not the first administration to cut down on supplies for the armed services. But it certainly is the worst time to have under-supplied troops. There simply is no excuse, and Rumsfeld's comment that you go to war with what you have does not apply when you are the party starting the actual wartime fighting. A defensive war, yes - you have no choice. In an offensive war, the troops should be well-armed and well-supplied from Day One.

It also seems that only those troops with families that can buy them what they need are going to be given what they need - and that is done by their families, not the government that is sending them to war.