DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE: THE LEAKS JUST KEEP ON COMIN'

Today, kiddies, we have learned in the public media not only that the Bushies want bombing routes and targeting for Iran but what our some of our Generals and Admirals plan to do about it. Some of our flag officers are said to have threatened to resign before they'll fight in Iran.

Now, I happen to agree that military action in Iran is an even bigger bonehead than invading sovereign Iraq, but that's almost beside the point.

Boys and girls, when you sign up to be a military officer, you sign up to follow the orders of the commander in chief. You don't sign up to make yourself look swell by leaking that you disagree and you don't sign up to select or prescreen your wars.

If the Admirals and Generals are just internally stating their disagreement, I have no problem with that. If they are leaking their protests, they are putting their own principles and vanity over their service to country. Nobody ever promised them we'd never have a president with limited intellectual ability surrounded by neocolonialists. The president gives you a military assignment, you explain to him the problems with it, then follow it unless he rescinds it.

Otherwise you can just practice saying "You want fries with that?"