"So, place a value on going halfway around the world and bombing the piss out of a country that did us no harm.How does that qualify one to be President?" - Kendall

Very good question Kendall, why not ask those who specifically identified Iraq as posing the greatest threat to the United States of America and the middle-east region and strongly advised your President and his Administration to do something about it before it was too late.

You will find that the people you must ask the question of are those who were sitting in the House of Representatives and in the Senate who also sat in the Joint House Security Committee. Another group to be asked your question are those who served in the Intelligence Services of the United States of America and gave the President exactly the same advice, mark you Kendall they did actually do that in late-January and early-February 1998.

JTS in another thread raised McCain's age as being a serious drawback to a nation engaged in a war situation. Well McCain has experience of the sharp end of the military in time of war and was also a POW, he is now 72 years old - Well Jack The Sailor, I can think of another with quite a similar CV - his name - Sir Winston Churchill, who between the ages of 66 and 72 managed to lead his country through the greatest War this World has ever known - I believe that he did so rather well.