Report on Alaska National Guard: Inadequate Leadership from Palin

Earlier this month, the nonpartisan Veterans for America, released a report that took Sarah Palin to task for inadequate stewardship of the Alaska National Guard.

The report offers a scathing critique of the Guard's alleged lack of assistance -- particularly with health care -- for soldiers returning from overseas deployments. It asserts the Guard was sent to fight without proper systems in place to handle its returning vets and urges deployments to cease until the situation is fixed.

"As a result of inadequate leadership from the Governor of Alaska, among others, the Alaska National Guard has an inadequate understanding of the full range of post-combat issues," the report says.

Governor Palin's response? Attack the report. Apparently, any report published in Alaska about Sarah Palin's performance as governor is a political hatchet job. Last week, the McCain/Palin campaign attacked the investigation into "Troopergate" as a partisan hit job, then when the Branchflower report found her to have abused her power, Sarah Palin denied the report's findings, claiming she was cleared of abusing her power.

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