[Maceman]

The body bags and the price tag will all be the president's cross to bear.

With any luck, he means. If you thought the Wellstone funeral was appalling, wait till you see the left wing cheering if the war goes badly. These people are S-C-U-M.

[Miss Marple]

He says that the democrats should be quiet about a war he thinks will end badly, in order to get political gain.

I do not subscribe to this view of the outcome of the war. However, if one thought that the effort was doomed, keeping quiet in order to claim political points is simply gaiing power by the deaths of American military.

You are right...he is scum.