Let's not be petty now, General

Democrat with military background assails McCain's credentials

The former supreme commander of NATO debunks McCain's security resume for us.

"He hasn't been there and ordered the bombs to fall," said General Wesley Clark, also a former Clinton supporter.

Hmmm. Let's take a look at those former presidents who served but were never there to "[order] the bombs to fall."

• James Madison
• James Polk
• Millard Fillmore
• Jimmy Carter
• Ronald Reagan - kept out of combat due to bad eyesight
• George W. Bush

Clark's wikipedia site says he voted for Ronald Reagan, and I wonder if, as a now-prominent pro-choice, pro-Affirmative Action Democrat, he would look back and scoff at Jimmy Carter for his lack of experience in the bomb drop-order departments.

Now let's look at Presidents who never served:

• John Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Quincy Adams
• Martin Van Buren
• Grover Cleveland
• William Taft
• Woodrow Wilson
• Warren Harding
• Calvin Coolidge
• Herbert Hoover
• Franklin Roosevelt
• Bill Clinton
  

Again, I wonder what Gen. Clark's stance was when his liberal pal William Jefferson Clinton was campaigning for commander-in-chief. Was he hiding his feelings of ill-will towards the two-term president who fought claims of being a draft-dodger? Would he go back and say that FDR was unfit to stand at the helm of the world's greatest armed forces?

That whole "WWII" thing seemed to turn out alright without Roosevelt's ever having "been there."
J. Sutton