] 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. 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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