Politics

The other day, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld happened to be at Camp Buehring in Kuwait. He was giving a "pep" talk to the soldiers there. These soldiers will eventually be moved north to Iraq to help the continuing "lost cause" there.

Some of the soldiers questioned Rumsfeld about how the war is being fought. You can read the article at CNN.com. It is a rather interesting change in mindset to see the soldiers (who are trained to not question their leaders) criticize the Commander in Chief's right-hand man!

This shift in mindset is representative of a growing irritation in the minds of the troops who are fighting the war in Iraq; a war that doesn't seem to have any end in sight. It is a significant revolution to see this kind of criticism coming directly from soldier and supported by the cheers of his comrades.

I hope that the outspoken soldiers are not disciplined in any way. After all, they deserve to have a voice. As the voices of those forced to fight an ideological war start to speak against it, maybe our arrogant president will realize his mistake and add it to his long list of past mistakes. Well, then again, he probably wont.