If Tom Daschle or another Democratic leader were to have made similar statements, the reaction would have been very swift, ... I don't think several hours would have gone by without there being an almost unanimous call for the leader to step aside.

As a world leader, America must be prepared to confront any challenge.

The statement was very similar to the statements he's given previously,

I'm going to come out now and make statements, 'Do we dare have a Democratic governor and a Democratic Legislature?' If that's the case, hand over your wallet. 'Cause the government's going to have you living on an allowance,

They are totally different statements and are dishonest.

In some respects these presidents are very similar. In the Johnson-Nixon war the military was very micromanaged in efforts to conduct this war. In Bush's war, it is micromanaged as well in the sense of we have not been given an objective, we have not been given a withdrawal time and we see no end in sight.