"Demean?"

Oh this is too fucking rich...not quite a week ago, George Bush told American military personnel in Iraq they could leave Iraq when they manage to accomplish his ill-founded impossible mission -- calling it "return on success". In other words, I fucked up, now you stay and fix it.

So today, Senator Mel Martinez of Florida (naturally) and also the Chairman of the Republican National Committee had this lofty statement in opposing Jim Webb's amendment to give them parity between the theater and home:

"I think we would demean their service if we were to say to them that there had to be a parity between the time in service out of the country and the time at home."

There's how much the GOP loves the troops in a nutshell.