David Sarasohn: A flawed sense of history, to say nothing of the present

[True_Blue]

Every time President Bush tries to put Iraq into perspective, he makes things look worse.

And not just for Iraqis.

Last week, speaking to the International Republican Institute, he tried to reassure his audience with some American history.

"The American Revolution was followed by years of chaos," the president recalled.

"Our first effort at a governing charter, the Articles of Confederation, failed miserably -- it took several years before we finally adopted our Constitution and inaugurated our first president. It took a four-year civil war, and a century of struggle after that, before the promise of our Declaration was extended to all Americans."
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[Lydia Leftcoast]

1. I'm a big David Sarasohn fan from way back

He started out in Portland, and I'm SO glad he's finally getting national syndication.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Those suicide stage coach bombings just went on and on for years.

Which part of the United States in the 1780s particularly reminds the president of contemporary Iraq? The suicide stagecoach bombings? The Quaker terrorist campaign in Pennsylvania? The musket battles between Baptists and Methodists?

True, President Bush proudly declares himself a C student history major, but was all the grading on a curve?