Yesterday’s New York Times had a picture of seven of our rough-and-tumble top guns, stars spattered all over their fatigues, sitting at a table in one of Saddam’s palaces.Nobody else seems to be doing it, so I guess it’s up to me... Hey, you! You over there with all the stars on your collars. Lose the camo fatigues! Come on!

You think Napoleon ever sat for a group photo dressed up for a tough day of bayonetting Englishmen? Did Caesar slop around in his field toga? Look, everybody knows that guys at your pay grade have as much chance of stopping a bullet as your Aunt Tillie. In fact, General Tommy R. Franks, according to the story accompanying the picture, "avoided downtown Baghdad, landing at the international airport and traveling the short distance to the palace under heavy security." For camos to do him any good, they would have had to match the upholstery in his limo. So dress up, Tommy. You’re a four-star general now, for Pete's sake. Look like one! Did MacArthur wear camos for his big photo-op in the Philippines? Of course not! His idea of dressing down was starched khakis with a necktie, not fatigues open at the neck - and he was wading in the Pacific.

Listen up, troopers. You guys are too old to strike fear in the eye of the beholder anymore. You look ridiculous... just like grandmas in bikinis.

;) Peace.

Too true goofy. Gie them a gun an' jist watch them run.

When a sniper can pick you off from a mile away I would wear fatigues then. There is no point in dressing up all pretty when your dead.