Civilian Governments Can Declare War But They Cannot Fight Them.

It has to be extremely difficult to be President today. The President has almost as many people critiquing him as an NFL Head Coach. He cannot change a decision because if he does the public will be all over him for every decision. It should not be like this but it is and it will change our country. GW, as a good cowboy, went to Iraq with vengeance in his eye because Saddam tried to kill his father. He thought he would ride in, arrest the varmit, and ride out. But it was bigger than he thought and he has sacrificed thousands of lives and altered tens of thousands of other lives because of his bad decision.

Now he cannot do anything until the new Secretary of Defense is up to speed or he will be accused of making Gates a puppet, which he is, but is not to be admitted. Meanwhile Americans are dying, for no good purpose. GW will be insignificant for the remainder of his term. As the United States fought the Russians by supporting their enemy, Afghanistan, Syria and Iran are fighting the United States by supporting our enemy, their covert military. Being stuck in Iraq, unable to win and unable to leave the United States is a sitting duck for all the small whiny countries to pick at and we will be unable to react.

During WWI General Pershing the command, once he was in France, it was the civilian government's job to support his decisions. Presidents and their cabinets cannot fight wars. Invariably they just screw things up... As Dirty Harry said, "A man has got to know his limitations."