There are those who share the same opinion as you. However, there are those who think that the military experience will be a plus because it ensures that the President knows exactly what it means (personally) to send troops into a conflict and thus use it only as a last resort. I think if President Bush had more actual military time in conflict, he may have listened more to Powell who spent endless hours arguing against going to Iraq before and after his presentation to the UN (as well as Shalikashvili and others who went public with their arguments).


>>>Honor where honor is due, but no more than that - I'd actually prefer to keep the soldiers out of politics, even when they retire.
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>>With that attitude, we should have never elected....hmmm....lets see....George Washington, Zachary Taylor, Andrew Jackson, Millard Fillmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, Rutherford Hayes, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, or John Kennedy.
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>Hey, just a preference, based on bad experience. You were lucky, then.