bush Is Our Very Own Lord Beaverbrook?

[leftchick]

damn straight.....

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Just as the pre-war intelligence was twisted and manipulated to make the case for war -- intelligence that a Senate investigation has found to have been ``uncorroborated, unreliable, and in some cases fabricated," in the words of Senator Jay Rockefeller -- so now is the reality of the administration's failures being glossed over for election purposes.

It is an ``age when assertion tends to overwhelm evidence, when claim so easily trumps facts," as Ron Suskind wrote in ``The One Percent Doctrine," his troubling account of the war on terror.

The administration likes to think of itself as Churchillian. But it resembles more those in the British establishment who steadfastly refused to admit that staying the course in the '30s was not working. Vincent Sheean, writing in the 1940s, said of Lord Beaverbrook that in the 1930s he ``had the queer belief . . . that things can be made true by saying it."

And so we have President Bush saying, once again, ``We will stay the course. We will help this young Iraqi democracy succeed, and victory in Iraq will be a major ideological triumph in the struggle for the 21st century." I wish it were so.


http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/09/12/the_reality_in_iraq/

[leveymg]

1. The Lord B wasn't much of a judge of character:

Lord Beaverbrook, writing in the Daily Express on 31 October, 1938 said:

"We certainly credit Hitler with honesty and sincerity. We believe in his purpose stated over and over again, to seek an accommodation with us, and we accept to the full the implications of the Munich document."

[leftchick]

2. and neither is the chimp

it sounds like an excellent comparison. Thank you for the quote. You are just full of great gems. :)

[leveymg]

3. If you're interested in the history of Anglo-American fascists,

this is a very interesting site: http://www.marxist.com/TUT/TUT6-2.html