Finally, O and I can agree that Nuclear is good for us.

So I think we must take an individual close look at those whom talk about “putting their life on the line” when making political comments. However, military service is irrelevant for political office and therefore irrelevant for ordering the military into combat.

President Obama did not serve in the military either.

I also share Sil's perspective about nuclear power. The suggestion that it's a sustainable solution is simply untrue. The cost of nuclear is going up nearly as fast (exponentially) as the cost of wind and solar are *falling*. The US has little uranium and global supplies will run out at about the same time as oil. Add the social and environmental costs of extraction and disposal, plus the insurance cost, which we pay, and the decommissioning (which is never included in the cost), and you have a real loser.

Unlike Dick Cheney, who glorifies conflict but has never put his own body on the line, I am a retired military officer. I know firsthand the long list of security threats that our country faces. And I know that Cheney’s reckless strategy, out of touch with today’s threats, made that list longer

I can just hear it: “This guy is just a disgruntled four star general, what does he know? And probably a Democrat, too”

We, the United States, do not know what the hell we are doing and in doing it, we are destroying ourselves.

Guantanamo would be irrelevant had our grand strategy succeeded, and, is just another shovel of dirt on our grave as our grand strategy fails.

Hindsight is 20/20 General, but maybe that is all that our over paid over pampered military strategists are capable of.

Are you prepared to offer for public scrutiny the options the Pentagon offered our elected leadership after 9/11/2001….? If not, how can you hold our leadership responsible for choosing a certain path to take?

I submit that if the Vice President was the architect of anything at all, it was with the information the Pentagon and the intelligence community provided. Again indicative that we, the United States, simply do not know what we are doing….on many levels.

Very curious indeed. Bin Laden is pretty much Cheney's best friend in that regards, near as I can tell.

And of course this is all about oil. We don't need nukes BTW. Plenty of geothermal to turn water into steam [which is all nuke plants do with uranium + deadly radiation and providing perfect terrorist targets therefore..]