I wonder if they would feel the same way if President George W. Bush were still in the White House? I highly doubt it. 🙄

Marines at Camp Leatherneck in Afghanistan will lose a key daily meal starting Saturday, causing some to forgo a hot breakfast and others to work six-plus hours without refueling on cooked food, according to Marines at the base and Marine Corps officials.

The midnight ration service — known there as “midrats” — supplies breakfast to Marines on midnight-to-noon shifts and dinner to Marines who are ending noon-to-midnight work periods. It’s described as one of the few times the Marines at Leatherneck can be together in one place.

The base, which is located in Afghanistan’s southwestern Helmand Province, flanked by Iran and Pakistan, also will remove its 24-hour sandwich bar. It plans to replace the dishes long offered at midnight with pre-packaged MREs, said Marine Corps Lt. Col. Cliff Gilmore, who has been deployed in Afghanistan since February. 

The moves, though unpopular with many Marines on the ground and their families back home, are emblematic of the massive drawdown of American troops in Afghanistan and the dismantling of U.S. military facilities. More than 30,000 U.S. service members will leave Afghanistan in coming months as the U.S. prepares to hand responsibility for security to Afghan forces in 2014.

While no Marine at Camp Leatherneck agreed to speak on the record, many are privately angry about the hit on base morale.

via The drawdown diet: Marines steamed by loss of hot meal at Afghanistan base – World News.

I can almost tell you assuredly that if Bush were in the White House and this sort of a story hit; the unnamed Marines would be derided by the Conservative blogs, Fox News, Drudge, the political talking heads on the radio as some sort of liberals who hated Bush. They would also be mocked as cowards and shouts for their court martial’s would be shouted from the rooftops. However, because a liberal Democrat is in the white house, and because he is black; and over 95% of white people in this Country think he is not an American Citizen; this is some sort of a scandal.

The hypocrisy and predictability of the right anymore is almost funny, if it were not so sad. John McCain’s buddy was right, we are a Nation of whiners.

To the Marines:

SUCK.IT.UP!

(Like Michelle Malkin likes to say….)

Others: Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, The Gateway Pundit and usofarn.com