As you probably noticed, very few of the Iraq hawks were in Vietnam. They never learned the lessons learned there. McCain despite being a guest at the Hanoi Hilton seems to forgotten what he went through.

I was in the military during the Reagan years.
A friend was in during the Clinton years.

While most military folks are conservative to very conservative, they however are old school conservative. I think this time around the conservative miltary base will desert the NeoCons as they have figured out that NeoCons are NOT conservatives.

Throw in the resession and the neo-cons are are in for a big November surprise.