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You said... "I'm not sure how anyone could run for president and be "unprepared" for war. The job includes the title of commander in chief of the armed forces." As Glenn Greenwald has pointed out, the role of CINC is really a wartime, not peacetime, thing. Also, I don't believe that any of our presidents were "prepared" for war other than maybe someone like Eisenhower or Jackson or one of the other presidents who had command experience during wartime. Certainly, Shrub was unprepared for war. Unfortunately, he was all too prepared to start them. But my objection is that I don't think a presidential aspirant should be "prepared" for war. I would hope to God that he would be so unprepared that war would be the last option that he or she considered.
My other objection is the amount of credence give the quote intelligence failures end quote. Within days of hearing the rants about WMDs from the Shrubbites, I wrote my congressmen. I asked the question: Why should I care if Saddam Hussein has WMDs? He has no blue water navy, no intercontinental air force, no ICBMs. In short, he couldn't get a purported WMD over here to attack us if he wanted to. So why should I worry? Well, I needn't. It never was about protecting the United States but it was all about protecting Israel. And I object to that, too. Last I checked, Israel isn't the 51st state.
