I want to start by saying that I deeply respect our men and women of the armed forces, including my father who served his entire career of 40 years.  However, I have one question:  how is it protecting our freedom as Americans when screwed-up politicians send our fellow Americans to fight wars under false pretenses into places like Iraq?  Have those politicians ever invested the time to understand that we have lost a lot more American lives in those theaters than the ones the terrorists took on September 11, 2001?

I wish it was a mandate for politicians to serve in the wars they vote to declare because it is easy to look and sound tough when you are sending someone else to make the real sacrifice.  All gave some, some gave all.  Yet, our politicians continue to give us all a whole lot of nothing.