Be prepared

A quick update on my work. I'm busy working on JLA #11 and hope to make it spectacular. It will be in the new style. It begins like the style I used on The 49ers, but is brilliantly shiny full color. Lisa and I are also ready to buy a house. Busy doing the open house and home tour circuit with our real estate agent.

There's something I've been meaning to write for a few months. A friend told me he'd seen new recruits in the US military being sent off without enough training or proper equipment. They only had one trip to the firing range before getting shipped to Iraq. Their flack jackets were Vietnam era. He really feared for the troops' safety.

Now that conflict has come, the only way to limit its duration is to apply decisive force. And I assure you, this will not be a campaign of half measures and we will accept no outcome but victory.

George Bush's March 2003 speech announcing the invasion of Iraq

Oddly enough, it's all been half measures. Not enough troops, equipment, and training for Iraq and not enough working brains in the White House. The Washington Post reports that this unending war is close to breaking the Marines and Army. It's obvious that Bush's Surge is going to break our military before it stops the insurgency. At best the insurgents will stay home with their families until they readjust tactics. Meanwhile...

"You take a lap around the globe -- you could start any place: Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Venezuela, Colombia, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, North Korea, back around to Pakistan, and I probably missed a few. There's no dearth of challenges out there for our armed forces," Pace warned in his testimony. He said the nation faces increased risk because of shortfalls in troops, equipment and training.

House Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

The 2008 presidential candidates, Republican and Democrat, will run on who can fix what George Walker Bush broke. It'll be a long to-do list.