Submitted by Michael Wilkerson, May 11, 2007 17:38
The Sun may think it doesn't matter who the "pleaders" are, but the fact is that while Lincoln may have given Boston and Chicago the war it asked for, Bush gave Congress and Americans a war they did not need. Moreover, Bush's mistakes in not asking for real sacrifices from Americans when he started the war are the primary reason it is so difficult to ask for them now.
This is a nice little parable, but the comparison of Bush to Lincoln is devastatingly inept. The only connections are that they were both presidents leading an unpopular war.
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Heart-wrenching because it is exactly the spot President Bush has been put into. [MORE]
helen benedict
May 11, 2007 16:46
History can help us make good decisions about our future and will help us have courage to fight the battle... [MORE]
roy crosby
May 11, 2007 15:00
Will people never look back at history? Bush is very courageous in the face of the nation's newspapers. Thank God... [MORE]
LEO KHANDJIAN
May 11, 2007 10:32
God bless president Lincoln and president Bush. May our current efforts be crowned with success. May the Iraqi people achieve... [MORE]
Doug Santo
May 11, 2007 10:16
I am disappointed and ashamed to admit that my representative from southeast Missouri is among those so-called "Republicans" who have... [MORE]
M. J. Slayton
May 11, 2007 09:48
requires a leap of imagination I doubt anyone posesses. [MORE]
gregdn
May 11, 2007 09:45
I find this article to be a good analogy of what is going on today. The press wields great power... [MORE]
Kim Baldinger
May 11, 2007 09:44
America is involved in the Middle East as the result of the long ago actions of two Democrat Presidents. When... [MORE]
Claude Bogardus
May 11, 2007 09:21
I sure wish President Bush and other Bush suppoters would get this point across to those that think leaving Iraq... [MORE]
James Robbins
May 11, 2007 09:18
I understand the direction of this article, however, I also understand we live in a far different world than that... [MORE]
RJ
May 11, 2007 08:50
Author(s) are to be commended for their knowledge of history and its direct applicability to the lily-livered, weak-kneed, traitorous Congresscritters... [MORE]
Kevin Coughlin
May 11, 2007 08:41
We are there and we have to finish the job..there is an old expression.."When the going gets tough, the tough... [MORE]
Robert Royce
May 14, 2007 14:23
If the (some) republicans think that president Bush has lost support from the majority of the voting republicans and force... [MORE]
Armando Lopez
May 11, 2007 08:08
What a great story out of history. I have read a great deal about the Civil War and never came... [MORE]