It was once considered off-limts to criticize the president in the middle of a war

[bluestateguy]

And that second guessing the president would undermine our troops in the field and give aid and comfort to the enemy.

That's what I seem to remember hearing over and over again in the 2000's.

[LiberalArkie]

1. That rule only applies when the president is a Republican.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. Only when it is a Rrpublican. Bill Clinton was accused of wagging the dog.

Check out this 1998 CNN article.

Wag the Dog' Back In Spotlight

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Our wars used to actually end. nt

[former9thward]

4. That rule went out after WW II.

Truman was criticized with Korea, Johnson and Nixon with Vietnam, Bush and Obama with their various wars. The Gulf war was over too quickly for any criticism of Bush I and I don't consider anything Clinton did in E. Europe, Iraq and Africa to be wars.

[cantbeserious]

5. When Candidates - Then Presidents - Are The Manifestations Of Oligarchs, Corporations And Banks

All citizen civility subsides since our voices have been silenced and our wishes neutered by state agency of others.

[jmowreader]

6. You mean, "criticizing the president during wartime is treason"?

Yeah...that shit only plays when you've got a Republican president who is running around invading other countries for the fuck of it. Figure that if Obama actually launches the war the GOTP is salivating for and any of Our Boys In The Trenches get killed, they'll try to impeach him for murdering American servicemembers.

[merrily]

7. I don't think that was ever the reality. I think that's something one party says if it

holds the Oval Office and the other party is being critical.

Democrats sure criticized Dimson enough and pretty much only Republicans complained about criticism during war time.

And, inasmuch as we're now in never-ending war, that rule, if it was really ever honored, is not going to work well for democracy.

[Township75]

8. So does that mean we can stop the BS about Obama ending any wars?

Some here seem to think he ended a war or two...or 3, rather than started any new ones.