“Unfortunately, most of our friends on the other aisle are having a hard time admitting things are getting better; some days I almost think the critics of this war don't want us to win. Nobody is happy about losing lives but remember these are not draftees, these are full-time professional soldiers."

---Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)

I guess The Senator thinks it is OK to have sent these kids to their deaths because they signed up for the service.

Senator, you are wrong, dead wrong. When your nation's young men and women take a sacred oath to defend their country and volunteer to live a sometimes harsh and unpleasant life and do and live through unpleasant things...you, as a national leader, made damned sure you only send them into harm's way to make that ultimate sacrifice as a last resort. You don't support their use in a bankrupt foreign excursion over and over while voting against veteran's benefits expansions. And you sure as shit don't toss out casual statements trying to shine that turd and downplay the deaths of these kids. It's callous and cruel. And wrong.

Maybe if the good senator had not gone the draft deferment for law school route during the height of Vietnam and gone another way...he'd have an inkling of what purposeful sacrifice means. Instead he has the typical mindset of the conservative chickenhawk.

Up yours, senator.