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Read This: Coleen Rowley and Retired Major General Jerald Albrecht on Commander and Chief Bush

MVP-endorsed candidate Coleen Rowley and Jerald Albrecht, a retired major general of the Army Reserve, have a great editorial in this morning’s Star Tribune about President Bush’s failures as commander and chief. An excerpt:

And when veterans return from Iraq, they learn the harsh reality of how their government has cut and run from its responsibilities to them. They return to fewer health care benefits, pitiful job prospects—except possibly as private military contractors for more duty in Iraq—and shattered lives and families.

Despite overwhelming evidence that Iraq’s stability has been steadily eroding, Bush has made his intentions clear: He expects our troops to “stay the course” until he leaves office—nearly three more years.

Hundreds of thousands of our soldiers went to Iraq because of their belief in “Duty, honor, country,” and almost 2,700 have given their lives for it. To demand that they remain on an increasingly chaotic and deadly course to serve the political ends of the GOP is a shabby way to honor their sacrifice.

Read the full piece here.