Sardonicus, if you get a warm and fuzzy feeling by calling Bush your CinC, your great leader or whatever, go for it.

The problem with this CinC thing is that the Bu****es are claiming that Bush can do just about any damn thing he wants because of powers inherent in his role as CinC.

The intent of our founding fathers, as embodied in the Constitution, President as CinC of the military, was to ensure civilian control of the military.

To claim that Bush's role as CinC feeds back to gives him whatever powers as President he deems necessary is illogical as well as perverting the Constitution. It's to claim that the Constitution provides for military dictatorship when the Presdident decides that's necessary.

Of course we know that Bush regards the Constitution as being nothing but a "goddamned piece of paper" anyway.