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Make me very, very angry. In today's Washington Post, Richard Cohen writes approvingly of the retired generals who have lately decided to speak out. He calls Iraq a quagmire, a disaster. He wants serving members of the armed forces to speak out on what's really going on.

Maybe Mr. Cohen should stop reading his own paper for news of what's going on in Iraq. Let's put this very, very clearly. If Iraq was the disaster that the MSM wants you to believe it is, reenlistments would be going down. Period. They are not and in fact are exceeding targets by 15%. That alone completely disproves Mr. Cohen's contentions.

Is this war stressful on the troops? Of course it is. Is it dangerous for the men and women serving there? Only an idiot would think otherwise. It is hard on the families waiting back here in the US. I daresay I would know how hard it is a great deal better than Mr. Cohen.

While Cohen admires the three generals who have spoken out, I do not. Nor to I admire someone like Mr. Cohen. For all of these men, their cheap political shots to further their own agendas endanger every man and women wearing our uniform. They endanger my son and I take it very personally.

Let me clue you in to another forgotten lesson from Vietnam, Mr. Cohen. The North Vietnamese did not win the war. We Americans lost it. The media helped us lose it here at home. And they are trying to do so again.

Carry On America has a similar take on this.