Survey says…

…it's over over there.

Zogby:

The poll, conducted in conjunction with Le Moyne College’s Center for Peace and Global Studies, showed that 29% of the respondents, serving in various branches of the armed forces, said the U.S. should leave Iraq “immediately,” while another 22% said they should leave in the next six months. Another 21% said troops should be out between six and 12 months, while 23% said they should stay “as long as they are needed.”

That's 72% of the troops who apparently don't 'support the troops.' Or not.

After all, the CinC told them long ago that their mission was accomplished. Maybe they believe him.

Or maybe they just don't know what to believe...

While 85% said the U.S. mission is mainly “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks,” 77% said they also believe the main or a major reason for the war was “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq.”

Saddam, of course, was neither involved in the 9-11 attacks nor was he protecting al Qaeda in Iraq, so the mission over 80% of our soldiers think they've been deployed to pursue was accomplished before a shot was fired.

It's simply unimaginable to me, thought, that over 80% of the troops would accept a completely imaginary rational for their mission simply by accident. For a military drawn from and acting on behalf of a democratic society, it's an essential function of command to insure that the rank and file is given an clear, honest and worthwhile mission and the means to accomplish it. Anything less is abuse, at best.

Who's doing the briefings? The training? Who's adjusting the media filters that inform our fighting men and women?

Simply put, every soldier, sailor, airman or Marine who has died fighting “to retaliate for Saddam’s role in the 9-11 attacks” or “to stop Saddam from protecting al Qaeda in Iraq” has truly, in the saddest and cruelest way imaginable, died in vain.

And everyone, from a company commander to the Commander in Chief, who has allowed our warriors to die for a lie is a murderer.

I hate what they're doing to my Army.