Well, that didn't take long.

So you know that promise I made to not be political? ..the one I made yesterday? Well, it's gone.

A friend pointed me in the direction of this article in the Washington Post.

Please take about ten minutes and go read it. Read the whole thing. Do not skim. Do not skip sections. The ten minutes it'll take you to read it will be minutes well-spent.

Regardless of your:

-- political leaning
-- opinion about George Bush
-- opinion about the war
-- opinion about the military

this is a must-read article.

Frankly, the fact that our soldiers, hurt in combat, are coming back to conditions such as this is deplorable. Everyone, this is not ok.

The current leadership spouts, "Support the troops!" and makes it sound as if any kind of dissent whatsoever is seditious and gives the terrorists more ammunition to use against us. Well, guess what? How can this be considered "supporting the troops?"

When soldiers who lose their arms are forced to come back and live in roach-infested hospital rooms... when soldiers who lose their legs are forced to wear shorts because they don't have any pants to wear, and are then kept away from a ceremony for a comrade... when soldiers get Purple Hearts but no underwear... how can this be considered supporting the troops?

I support the troops.

I am related to one of the troops.

A former employee of mine has resigned her position to become one of the troops.

I want the troops to come home in one piece. (side note: and now you know why!)

But I cannot, in good conscience, support an administration that uses money to build bridges to nowhere in Alaska ($423 million! at least!) yet allows wounded combat vets to hang out with la cucaracha.