What really irks me as an active duty US soldier who's actually been to these places, is the ludicrous propaganda being put out by the GOP on the whole budget issue. It's as if they're telling the American people, "these democrats want to steal all the troops' money" by not passing the budget. Like all of our weapons will 'poof' dissappear the moment the budget runs out. When in reality, the budgetary supplement is for the surge, not for current operations, which are funded through the next fiscal year already. Its almost criminal the way the republicans lie to americans every day.