Exhaustion and combat stress are besieging US troops in Iraq as they battle with a new type of warfare. Some even rely on Red Bull to get through the day. As desertions and absences increase, the military is struggling to cope with the crisis. [The Guardian]

Welcome back to Peaceable after its two week hiatus.

My first reaction to this article was shoot, millions of Americans back home rely on caffeine, just to make it to lunch. My second was I wonder if the company that makes Red Bull is publicly traded. My third, and the one that I’m going with, is Another proof that Bush is marching this once great country, boots first, straight into hell.

Of course the soldiers are exhausted. Soldiers are always exhausted in war. War doesn’t have office hours. But war, though always insane, is presumed to have a discernible objective: whop the crap out of the enemy and go home. This one doesn’t; no objectives, nothing to win, everything to lose.

I don’t know about you, but even sitting here in my comfy desk chair, I’m pretty farking tired of it myself.

Impeach Bush and Cheney.