To borrow from Shakespeare, Henry V, the deaths of soldiers is not the fault of the leader, for they purpose not their deaths by their service; nor does he purpose their deaths by his orders. To me, it is a fallacious argument to lay the dead at the feet of the President.
The President sends troops into combat to defeat our enemies; those enemies have, in the past, killed our soldiers without provocation during times of peace, whether they were in a barracks in a friendly country or a warship in a friendly port.
Likewise, the previous President sent our soldiers into combat many times, but I did not hear much complaint about those soldiers deaths from the likes of paul or the political left.
That previous president launched cruise missiles into sovereign nations over the expulsion of weapons inspectors, or the intelligence, later proved erroneous, of Chemical weapons production, or simply the likelihood of OBL being at a particular camp inside Afghanistan, all without a declaration of war. Were those illegal war actions deserving impeachment? What then is the difference now? Simply the scale of effort.
I guess the Left would prefer we bomb our enemies from 50 thousand feet so that we never have to suffer losses; however, they would still cry over the innocent lives lost of non-combatant casualties. Nothing is ever good enough, it must be perfect. Perfect enough that those on the Left never suffer the pangs of conscience over inadvertent casualties.
