Bush Terrible Commander in Chief- just look at the record:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

O.K., had enough talking about Vietnam and who was doing what, when and where? Look at Bush's piss poor performance the last 3 years:

Tora Bora- Lets bin Laden get away due to reliance on local warlords instead of actual U.S. military personnel when we had him surrounded.

Later on, Afghanistan is slipping away due to lack of planning and allowing Taliban to rebuild and control over 80% of the country.

Iraq- no clear plan for occupation after invasion, and not enough body armor due to "miscalculation" on level of resistance after occupation.

Fallujah- Marines fought insurgents to a bloody standoff, while killing many innocents, and fueling even more hatred of our occupation. The marine general who lead that battle himself says this half hearted effort was a huge mistake.

Najaf- al Sadr and his army is surrounded in the mosque, yet after much fighting and many deaths on both sides, a deal is brokered which allows the murderer of many American troops to go free.

Abu Ghraib?- Hard to pin this directly on Bush, but he WAS the belligerent who said "You're either with us or against us". Hard to deny the poisonous effect that kind of thinking will have all the way down to the end of the chain of command.

In the Iraqi overview, it was admitted just last week that the U.S. lead forces do not control much of Iraq.

Even if you believe invading Afghanistan, and then Iraq was a good idea, Bush was the absolute wrong man to be in charge of it.
Just look at this list of fuck ups.
Bush is an incompetent Commander in Chief, and is not only costing American lives because of it, but is losing opportunuites to win Peace at every turn.

[Catfight]

1. Who needs facts! n/t

[xray s]

2. Fallujah

The Marines warned Pentagon against going in....was ordered in by Rumsfeld...then when they tried to do their job....Rumsfeld pulled them out.

The local militia that was formed in the aftermath to bring order is now in disarray.

dead Marines for NOTHING!!!!!!

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. that story needs to get circulated more.

It's an incredible indictment of Bush's poor strategy.

[Wickerman]

3. Iraqi invasion mis-managed - As Sey Hersh has noted

-Using light force to go into Iraq in the first place - when professional soldiers asked for heavy force - and contrary to the "Powell Doctrine" :shrug:

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. BTW, This is part of Kerry's arguement

that he knows how to use our military better than Bush.

[DrFunkenstein]

6. Let Me Add To Iraq And Abu Ghraib

Iraq - Rejecting the Powell Doctrine of "overwhelming force," Bush favored the Pentagon chickenhawk plan of small, fast forces that left soldiers with thin supply lines, little artillery support, and no large presence to quell subsequent anarchy or secure suspected WMD sites.

Abu Ghraib - Bush made it openly clear that the Geneva Convention was considered the Geneva Suggestion, and set the tone for the abuses that followed by soldiers utterly unprepared and overwhelmed by the task they were given.

And Afghanistan, while I'm at it - Bush removed much needed resources from the area to secure the areas outside of small zones in urban areas, leaving terrorists to cross back and forth into Pakistan almost at will and leaving the government with no hope for the democratic process we had promised to see through.

Bush in a word: incompetent. You are absolutely right - we need to remind the American public in very short statements like the ones you've provided. It would be even better if Kerry did the same.