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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt was once considered off-limts to criticize the president in the middle of a war
And that second guessing the president would undermine our troops in the field and give aid and comfort to the enemy.
That's what I seem to remember hearing over and over again in the 2000's.
LiberalArkie
(15,732 posts)Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)Check out this 1998 CNN article.
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Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)former9thward
(32,121 posts)Truman was criticized with Korea, Johnson and Nixon with Vietnam, Bush and Obama with their various wars. The Gulf war was over too quickly for any criticism of Bush I and I don't consider anything Clinton did in E. Europe, Iraq and Africa to be wars.
cantbeserious
(13,039 posts)All citizen civility subsides since our voices have been silenced and our wishes neutered by state agency of others.
jmowreader
(50,580 posts)Yeah...that shit only plays when you've got a Republican president who is running around invading other countries for the fuck of it. Figure that if Obama actually launches the war the GOTP is salivating for and any of Our Boys In The Trenches get killed, they'll try to impeach him for murdering American servicemembers.
merrily
(45,251 posts)holds the Oval Office and the other party is being critical.
Democrats sure criticized Dimson enough and pretty much only Republicans complained about criticism during war time.
And, inasmuch as we're now in never-ending war, that rule, if it was really ever honored, is not going to work well for democracy.
Township75
(3,535 posts)Some here seem to think he ended a war or two...or 3, rather than started any new ones.