If the Dem and Republican roles were reversed in this situation, FReepers would be crying bloody murder.
I prefer Bush to be president, because I think that Kerry would make the same errors but worse. I suspect that Kerry has Wilsonian/Clintonian/Kennedy streak and would create more Vietnams, draft and who knows what.
Bush has neocons around him, but Kerry has guys like Holbrook or Robert Cottrell who wrote article: Frozen Conflicts: Time to Challenge Russia
Invading Iraq can damage USA, invading Iran can bankrupt it, but unfreezing conflicts on Russia's borders is a pure madness worthy of Dr. Strangelove.