Eisenhower note has lessons for Bush and Co

[JoFerret]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-pe.column06jun06,0,728066.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines

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The note is eloquent ....

One sentence has the ring of what the Bush administration has been saying about its war: "My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the best information available."

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But the ending is not heard today: "If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt it is mine alone."
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So much has gone wrong in that war, but none of the people who led us there, on false pretenses, has a word of apology. The spirit that made Eisenhower feel compelled to prepare such a note does not seem to exist among them.....


And where have these people taken us? Where have George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell (yes, him too) and their heralds taken America?

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When Eisenhower launched the attack on Normandy on June 6, 1944, it was a dark and daunting challenge..... The apology he was prepared to speak but never had to was eloquent and honest.

This is what always seems to be missing from the pronouncements and explanations of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and their supporters. Instead, one hears the stridency of ideologues and men who believe that they are doing God's work.

God help us.