[JennysCool]

If Bush et al, go too, these brave men get painted as "Bush's Poodles"; and too weak to stand on their own lest the Big Bad U.S. is there.

EXACTLY the point I was trying to make; you said it MUCH better than I did.

[Alia]

Well... YOU said it first. :)

Besides, as I've explained elsewhere, The President/VP et al can't GO to Georgia until National Security greenlights it. You do NOT send a sitting President into an actively Hostile combat zone. It's just not wise to do this; no matter how "good" it would look.

President goes, some itchy trigger finger gets busy, hits the President; Plausible Deniability by Russia, or any other "party". We are then automatically at war.

How convenient would that be for Iran and the Axis; And of course, the "Bush haters".