or do you like to construct everything around an argument or perceived argument?

By the way Ronald Reagan made movies for the War Department, so I guess it is your "argument" that that would constitue military service..ok I accept that along with Cheney who was not cripple as a set off for FDR. By this logic we should accept Clinton who registered for the draft along with your friend Dan Quayle doing service with a journalism unit of the Indiana National Guard. I have difficulty equating this with Gore serving as a jounalist in Viet Nam where they actually had bullets---but hey, I have been to Indiana.

John Quincy Adams is not Quincey, btw.

There is no argument posited, merely the observation that those in authority, with the power to wage war knew nothing about it, had no experience of it in this particular case.

Also, I didn't research how many presidents we had that started a war by unprovoked attack. Perhaps you can fill this in?

How "silly" is it to be concerned about the motivations and backgrounds of those with the authority to place me and mine in harms way in a democratic country?

Publius