Ma'am;... You are wrong... Mr. Bush; in using our military showed very clearly the limits of our power in the very process of using it up...What would we do, if we told North Korea to put their hands up , and they ask: Where is the army to make us???Our army was like a light sabre that could have scared many people, but we used it once and now it needs a recharge... Ma'am; we are supposed to be a democracy, and as a democracy our interest is self defense, and so, defense is one noble purpose of the constitution... To see our country driven toward empire at the expense of our national defense, to be forced to rely upon the curse of nuclear weapons when before we had a perfectly good army standing ready, is outrageous... I know it must be irking for a president from the biggest no where on the planet to have all that power, and not be able to use it.... Armies do not have a use...If they are not ready they are worse than useless; and if they are ready they are an unavoidable expense of every nation state... It is not fun to watch them act like a bunch of kids with a bunch of gadgets -and not much ambition; but there is no cure for it... Use them once to fight, and the fight goes out of them; so make it good.. We did not make the good fight...We did not fight the good war...And the war we fought we did not fight well....Consider Ma'am, that a military needs financial support as much as every good in society, and that the wealth of the rich was made abundant by avoiding support of government in its legitimate activity...Even the price of this war which has not benefited the people in the least has been laid on their backs...Bush showed we are no paper tiger??? Worse... He showed we are a kitten in pillow case...When the people of any land cannot defend themselves from the stupidity of their lords their defense is doomed...Thanks...Sweeney

Well, Saunders, you miss the main points as usual. It wasn't so much that anyone minded a guy who was only in the Texas Air National Guard being Commander in Chief, it's the fact that he never would have had access to such a sweet safe position during a time of war if Daddy hadn't pulled a few strings. And perhaps the way he pissed all over his obligations while there. And perhaps that Vice had "more important things to do" than offer himself up to any military service at all.

What is so distressing is how much your miserable excuses for journalistic commentary keep on peddling the same old garbage over and over again. Here the world is in one of the biggest ruts in memory, one you've helped to cheerlead us down the path to every step of the way, and you keep on spewing the same old toxic waste without batting an eye. Way to go. The image staring back at you from the mirror must be pretty darn scary.

Thank you, Debra Saunders, for a fair and balanced commentary. You are right about the long knives, and they are in their sheaths as of now, since the complicit media is busy slobbering all over itself in their adoration of their newly-ordained god. The Pelosi crowd still has its knives pointed at GWB, and is gloating over their perceived win in the war of words and slander and legislation. George Bush is not the loser here; it is the United States of America that is the victim of a huge slash to its mid-section, and the viscera is showing as the unstanched blood is flowing in rivers from the wound. As is the case when a behemoth is mortally compromised, the soon-to-be-cadaver can stagger around for a while, but as the vitality drains away, perverse malignant bacteria and viruses attach to every cell and prepare the body for its burial and decomposition. Leading the attack on the still-barely-standing carcass is the new president and his cohorts in Congress. Their vision is to sap every last vestige of financial worth from the U.S. and to decimate the once-mighty military, and to re-establish this nation into a third-world minion of the one-world UN debacle. Make the paper tiger into a putrid pinata the islamo-fascists can beat on with impunity for the entertainment of the screaming masses of unemployed whiners and glorifiers of death. Once America is gone, they can establish Sharia law everywhere and enjoy their paradise-on-earth, which can only be improved by a self-inflicted trip to meet up with all those virgins. Oh, the glory.