adamist wrote:
] ] People need leaders who level with them about failures
] ] and difficulties in wartime - not gauzy North
] ] Korean-style biopics about the invincibility of the Great
] ] Leader. But then this war, vital as it is, has been
] ] exploited by the Bushies for political purposes since it
] ] began. How else to explain the "Mission Accomplished"
] ] photo-op or the bare-knuckled 2002 Congressional
] ] campaign? Some on the left would have politicized this
] ] war under any circumstances.

Bullshit.
But others might have
] ] rallied to a war that was conducted with less hardball
] ] domestic politics. In this, Bush is, of course, the
] ] opposite of Churchill, who brought in opposition leaders
] ] to play key roles in his war-cabinet.

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