I am afraid my President trumps poetry today. This country is in the middle
of a massive hurricane tragedy (apparently the biggest natural disaster to
have ever struck the continent) and this guy, instead of facing that horror
head on, he takes the day to weave a fiction about the similarities between
the war in Iraq and World War II. He's gone totally around the bend. (Can
you imagine Tony Blair trying this story on the English. "Yes, Tony. It's
the same." etc.) Jeezus. Or read on at one's peril!
CORONADO, California (AP) -- Facing a public increasingly wary of his war
policies, President Bush declared Tuesday that America cannot rest until its
freedom is secure and likened his spreading-democracy vision to Franklin D.
Roosevelt's.
Commemorating the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, the president
drew comparisons between that 20th-century conflict and current wars on
terror and in Iraq.
"As we mark this anniversary, we are again a nation at war. Once again war
came to our shores with a surprise attack that killed thousands in cold
blood," he said at a naval base here, referring to September 11, 2001
terrorist attacks.
He said that as in the time of World War II, the United States now faces "a
ruthless enemy" and "once again we will not rest until victory is America's
and our freedom is secure."
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