Friday, April 23, 2004
Reader Email
Subject: Bush of Arabia
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004
Subject: War President?
To: editor@201k.com
Whenever I hear supporters of President Bush deflect criticism of his administration's policies with their self-righteous indignation, claiming that the Iraq War makes him immune from reproach because he's a "War President", I have to laugh. I hear their melodramatic protestations and I imagine them picturing Bush, the War President, astride a big white horse, waving his sword, leading his troops into battle through the sands of Iraq and into the streets of Baghdad. Sort of like "Bush of Arabia".
I concede that the war with Iraq does indeed make Bush a War President. Hello!! He's the one who started the damn war in the first place! Using this "War President" business is the same twisted logic used by those who murder their parents and then plead for mercy because now they're orphans.
Which President ever wrapped his re-election around the theme, "I'm a War President"? Not Truman, not Johnson, and not Nixon. In fact, Johnson even bailed out during a war because he knew that Americans were so opposed to the Viet Nam War that it would be futile for him to attempt re-election. The country survived that mid-war Presidential change, and it's time for another.
Richard
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004
Subject: War President?
To: editor@201k.com
Whenever I hear supporters of President Bush deflect criticism of his administration's policies with their self-righteous indignation, claiming that the Iraq War makes him immune from reproach because he's a "War President", I have to laugh. I hear their melodramatic protestations and I imagine them picturing Bush, the War President, astride a big white horse, waving his sword, leading his troops into battle through the sands of Iraq and into the streets of Baghdad. Sort of like "Bush of Arabia".
I concede that the war with Iraq does indeed make Bush a War President. Hello!! He's the one who started the damn war in the first place! Using this "War President" business is the same twisted logic used by those who murder their parents and then plead for mercy because now they're orphans.
Which President ever wrapped his re-election around the theme, "I'm a War President"? Not Truman, not Johnson, and not Nixon. In fact, Johnson even bailed out during a war because he knew that Americans were so opposed to the Viet Nam War that it would be futile for him to attempt re-election. The country survived that mid-war Presidential change, and it's time for another.
Richard
