"Says retired Air Force Gen. Merrill McPeak, a member of the group who is
advising John Kerry but was Oregon chairman for the Dole campaign in 1996 and a
Veteran for Bush in 2000: “I don’t think that this accusation of politics
on my part will wash. It’s just this administration has gone away from me,
not vice versa.”

The Iraq debacle is “the worst reverse we’ve had on the international
scene, and it simply has to be laid at the feet of the president,” says
McPeak, who served as Air Force chief of staff under the first President Bush
and commander in chief of Pacific air forces under President Reagan.

Americans are starting to understand this line of critique. A CNN–USA
Today–Gallup poll released Thursday found that, for the first time since the
start of the war, most Americans believe it was a mistake to send U.S. troops
to Iraq. Most Americans also feel that the war has not made the United States
safer from terrorism, according to the poll."

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0628-10.htm

Walt