OrlandoMary
04-11-2005, 12:09 PM
[/url]With George Bush's approval rating now at the lowest level of any incumbent president since World War II, are the hard times and absurd lies finally getting through to Americans?
By Martin Graham
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/img/bushchen.jpgOn the weekend prior to the November elections, I moved. One of the movers who packed up my goods felt obliged to offer me some political insight. "Don’t get me wrong," he explained, "I don’t care for either of these guys, but you just don’t change presidents in the middle of a war."
Since I didn’t want my belongings rerouted to the city dump, I politely agreed. But it did occur to me to tell him a few things about leadership in time of war. For one, Abe Lincoln had no problem firing his field generals left and right during the Civil War -- until he found someone he valued, Ulysses S. Grant. In World War II Winston Churchill disposed of numerous generals and admirals he felt had failed to perform. And during the Korean War, President Harry Truman fired General Douglas Macarthur, one of the country’s most popular military figures. I also wanted to point out to my mover friend that if everyone used his logic, a president could deliberately start a war just to get re-elected. [more]
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OrlandoMary
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By Martin Graham
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/img/bushchen.jpgOn the weekend prior to the November elections, I moved. One of the movers who packed up my goods felt obliged to offer me some political insight. "Don’t get me wrong," he explained, "I don’t care for either of these guys, but you just don’t change presidents in the middle of a war."
Since I didn’t want my belongings rerouted to the city dump, I politely agreed. But it did occur to me to tell him a few things about leadership in time of war. For one, Abe Lincoln had no problem firing his field generals left and right during the Civil War -- until he found someone he valued, Ulysses S. Grant. In World War II Winston Churchill disposed of numerous generals and admirals he felt had failed to perform. And during the Korean War, President Harry Truman fired General Douglas Macarthur, one of the country’s most popular military figures. I also wanted to point out to my mover friend that if everyone used his logic, a president could deliberately start a war just to get re-elected. [more]
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1056&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0 (http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1056&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0)
OrlandoMary
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