How badly damaged is our military? You may not want to know.

The pace of operations is requiring repeated deployments for U.S. forces, including two Army brigades that are on their fourth deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan. According to a report prepared by the Center for American Progress, of the Army’s 44 combat brigades, all but the one permanently based in South Korea have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. Of those 43 brigades:

- 12 have been deployed once;

- 20 have been deployed twice;

- 9 have been deployed three times; and

- 2 have been deployed four times: the 10th Mountain Division, 2nd Brigade (including components to Afghanistan) and the 82nd Airborne Division, 2nd Brigade (six deployments including components to Afghanistan)

There is much more in this report and none of it is good. The next time you see the President on television talking about how we cannot forsake this mission, ask yourself how he could have forsaken his own people.

Ask how he can continue to send our children and neighbors to die in a conflict that was wrong to begin with, and is being salvaging now.

Then ask how much more American blood must be spilled before somebody impeaches him and keeps him from doing any more harm to our military, our reputation, and our citizens.

And finally how much longer we have to feel ashamed to be Americans.