...with a 13 month tour on foot patrol would have known how an invasion of Afghansitan and Iraq plays out.

If you told him that these countries are wide open terrain and mountainous where every civilian owned an ak47 and there were more artillery munitions lying around everywhere then rocks and the populations were extremists used to killing, would have told you right off the cuff, you're fuc*ing crazy to go in there. Any Vietnam vet would have said it. Any Special Forces vet would have smiled from ear to ear just thinking about the million possible ways to take advantage in that kind of theater. GWB didn't ask. He didn't care. Like McCain he though he knew war. Well, if he did, he would have known that he'd get his ass handed to him in not unforseen ways. Iraq never would have happened. Afghanistan would have been left to professionals with purpose build force structures.