WELL DUH

The president has been saying it everytime he's on TV, as has Secretary Rumsfeld and others.

But this congressman has a revelation.

Tensions among the group were a little higher when they were flying in blackout conditions at night.

“After we knew the Chinook had gone down and we flew at night in a darkened helicopter, we knew this was a dangerous place and we’re at war,” said Democrat Ed Case of Hawaii.

Any one of the many thousands of mothers, fathers, wives, husbands and children of deployed soldiers could have told you that.

I take this as another sign that too many of our politicians have never spent a day in uniform.