[mburbank]

"A rather lucid, and responsible statement. "

Both of those and revealing as well. I don't fault him at all, it's the truth of the matter and everyone knows it, and I feel the Democrats angle of attack is absurd.

MY point of attack, not potshot at all, is that by defining this unwinable (in any traditional sense of the word) situation as a war and assuming war powers, he is actually asking for a vast, permanent increase in presidential power without ever saying it. THAT is dishonest, disengenous, dangerous, and since I'm sure they don't intend that kind of far reaching power for any democrat who ever gets elected, it's not anything more than a raw power grab. He is steadily undermining the system of checks and balances that are what keep the American Experiment from failing.