In addition to Wes Clark, KE'04 brought out another big gun and shot right back at Shrub:
General Merrill McPeak Statement in Response to Bush Comments on Missing Explosives
For Immediate Release
"The President failed to adequately plan to secure the tons of explosives, munitions and weapons in Iraq and ignored the military commanders who told him he'd need more troops to both secure these explosives, take Baghdad and win the peace.
"The American people deserve answers. The troops deserve answers. Their families deserve answers.
"This is the same President who sent our troops in to battle without the body armor and without armored Humvees.
"We have the best trained, best fighters in the world. They need a new commander-in- chief who understand that the buck stops in the Oval Office and knows the meaning of responsibilities he has to our troops. This President has failed that test repeatedly.
"The President seems to think Senator Kerry could not possibly be criticizing him since the President thinks he has never made a mistake. Let's be perfectly clear: it is the President who dropped the ball. Senator Kerry is being critical of George Bush, not the troops. By embarking on the line of attack, George Bush is deflecting blame from him over to the military. This is beneath contempt."
http://www.johnkerry.com/pressroom/releases/pr_2004_1027e.html
[Wes Clark's statement diaried at: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/27/145332/68]