Reply #1: not to defend Gates at all, but there really is a commander in chief [View All]

[Lerkfish]

and the military chain of command is highly adhered to.
Gates could not have done any of what he did if not ordered to or allowed to do so.
I do not think Obama will be the same sort of commander in chief.

that having been said, as an antiwar person, I never considered Obama the best candidate on that issue... better than Clinton, but nowhere as good as Kucinich would have been.

but let's wait and see what happens. I would consider a sane approach to war a step in the right direction, even if it is not as far as I'd like it to go.

what we have right now is completely insane batshit crazy approach to unjustified preemptive war. Any improvement on that is appreciated.