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President Bush didn't send any troops anywhere to die. We don't have an involuntary military draft, and even if we did, the troops would never be sent anywhere for the purpose of dying. The troops are adult volunteers who are willingly led by their Commander-in-Chief to go where he deems necessary to best preserve our freedoms and national security.

Is this exactlty what you were thinking back in 1993 when those 18 Rangers were "willingly led by their Commander-in-Chief" to "preserve our freedoms and national security" in that Third World sh!t-hole called Somalia?

I should hope not.

The fact that a person volunteers to serve in an organization like the U.S. military does not give the "commander-in-chief" carte blanche to use them for whatever reason he deems fit. I made this eminently clear to a Clinton apologist back in the 1990s when he shrugged his shoulders and said, "Hey, they volunteered!" in defense of the Somalia debacle.

"The fact that a person volunteers to serve in an organization like the U.S. military does not give the "commander-in-chief" carte blanche to use them for whatever reason he deems fit."

That might play well with the hand-wringing metrosexual losers, but the emotionally mature adult men who understand the importance of duty, honor, country, not only volunteered to go once, but they are voluntarily choosing to go back again and again --- AND they plan to win. AND--they don't appreciate having to listen to the nattering nabobs of demoralizing negativity sniping from the sidelines.