We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:37:47 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Now that the anti-uniform War For Oil mob in Congress is frantically skittering to distance itself from the scheme to bleed-down The Surge, I can probably write this without being accused of posting a partisan political polemic in the guise of a TINS. One of the (many) squawks of outrage I heard concerning Monsieur Murtha's Modest Proposal went something like, "This is the first time in the history of the United States that politicians, in a time of war, intend to rob soldiers of the tools they need to fight that war!" The first time? Heh -- maybe so or... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:10:17 -0600 a *fine* piece of barracks-lawyering ;-) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html#comment-57861 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html#comment-57861 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:23:35 -0600 Amen Brother, I remember when the logistics types in Binh Thuy got their knickers in a knot after the Navy base at Nah Be had gone through their monthly "quota" of 2.75" rockets by the 15th and asked for more. It escalated to the 3-star level before more rockets were forthcoming. To bad we couldn't convince Charlie to fight his side of the war on a quota basis. :-) http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html#comment-57857 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html#comment-57857 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:51:26 -0600 Ad infinitum...]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html#comment-57815 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/03/defunding_the_d.html#comment-57815 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 06:41:58 -0600