Pretty much anyone who thought the Iraq war was a bad, bad idea is more of an expert on national security and defense than those republican clowns.

Had a chat with a special forces lt. who was convinced the real reason for iraq was to use a crap country no one cared about to "take on the islamic fundamentalists" and contain them in a conflict there.  Two billion dollars and several thousands lives later we're doing an excellent job training terrorists in modern warfare.