We need to make noise: Bush politicizing the military with these speechs.

[Armstead]

Whenever he gets into trouble over Iraq and foreign policy, Bush makes a speech to a military audience, like he did today.

The partisan political nature of today's speech makes it crystal clear that Bush is getting dangerously over the line regarding making the military into a political force, rather than an apolitical national security force.

That's a whole lot different than merely giving a pep talk to the troops.

It seems to me to be masively inappropriate to be making political speechs to capitive audiences of soldiers. Even if they support him, it is makeing the military take one side in what is a domestic political debate.

Whenever these military audiences cheer or clap during one of Bush's pandering lines, it sends a "subliminable" signal to Americans that the military is on Bush's side.

Democrats and the rest of us ought to start complaining about that, and pointing out how imappropriate that is.