<The hawks' first priority is not how it is done or even that it is done right--it is ensuring that the opportunity to finish off Saddam does not, once again, slip away. More than anything else, they are animated by the desire to get America into the fight and committed, even if that means doing so without the full commitment of manpower and military hardware that may eventually prove necessary or fully apprising the American people of what they may be getting into. And that is what has the uniformed services nervous: that the civilians at the Pentagon and the White House may bow to the hawks' wishes and attempt to do this on the cheap.

This one little piece of that entire report just stinks to high heaven. I hope he’s not talking about the U.S. militaries being ill-informed regarding an Iraq invasion.

"The fear that a lot of us have is that a really honest debate is not being conducted," says a recently retired career officer with experience working the Iraq file. "There's a sense among a number of us that the American public doesn't understand the party they're being invited to. This is going to cost big bucks. There's going to be lots of bad things going to happen. A lot of terrible things you're going to see on TV."

What sort of terrible things? Well...
The U.S. militaries are a part of the American people mentioned above in the top paragraph, and many young people will be enlisting to service in this endeavor -- and an uninformed military is a military that dies, and dies horribly, every time. ...And the disillusionment that will follow will spread across this nation like a dark plague.

We’ve not had a president ousted at gunpoint yet (well, Lee might argue that point regarding Mr. Jefferson Davis [1808-1889]).

Dan