Remember when the media tried to portray Bush as FDR and Blair as Churchill?

[Drunken Irishman]

:puke:

There was an article in Readers Digest around this time that also did the comparison. For Readers Digest, it wasn't that slanted of an article and even the cover poked fun at the idea. It had FDR and Churchill as grown ups, holding Bush and Blair's hands -- who were doofus children.

From what we've learned over the past eight years about Pres. Bush, he was nothing like FDR on the international stage.

But the media quickly compared the two and early on, it was an image that helped further the agenda that Bush was the international leader we needed.

That led to the same comparison of WWII and the Iraq War.

We knew that was flawed.

But not only was the comparison so utterly flawed, we've also learned the tactics, specifically toward the enemy, were far more different, as well.

Imagine if what we had done in this war happened during World War II?

We would have been laughed off the international stage.

[Occam Bandage]

1. I think that our ethical violations in this war pale in comparison

to what we did during World War II. Which is not to say that what we did then was wrong, nor that what we do now is right; the situations are absolutely not comparable. Totally different enemy, totally different goals, totally different threat, totally different strategy, totally different tactics.

But I don't think we've done anything in the recent wars that is remotely comparable to our strategic bombing campaigns of WWII, nor is there any particular reason to believe the prisoners we took in WWII were treated much better than the ones we've taken in Afghanistan. There weren't camera phones in 1945. I would have assumed you were referring to our unnecessary, fruitless, and distracting invasion of an Arab country, but we did that in World War II with Operation Torch. The North African campaign was a pointless waste of money, lives, and resources, and to some extent the Italian campaign was as well. Though we won both, they ended up delaying our invasion of Western Europe by nearly two years.

[Cha]

2. It was the "media"'s job

to push bush and cheney on us but as evidenced by their heinous overreaching attempts..the job got to be too much for them.

They were drooling over "Mission Accomplished" but again, the fascist regime and the corporatemedia had to back track with ugly rotten eggs all over their collective face.