Ludendorff, not Lincoln
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1644022,00.html
Bush's White House is dismissive of history, yet increasingly desperate
to rewrite it
Sidney Blumenthal
Thursday November 17, 2005
The Guardian
One year ago, after his re-election, President Bush brashly asserted:
"I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend
to spend it. It is my style." Twelve months later, Republicans were
thrashed in elections for the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey.
In St Paul, Minnesota, the Democratic mayor who endorsed Bush for
re-election a year ago was defeated by another Democrat by 70% to 30%.
Then the Republicans in the Congress split and failed to pass Bush's
budget. That was followed by the Senate's rejection of Bush's torture
and detainee policy by a 98-to-0 vote and by the overwhelming passage
of a resolution stipulating that the president must submit a strategy
on the withdrawal of US forces from Iraq.
Sidney Blumenthal
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