Latest RW meme: linking to a "good" war...

[never cry wolf]

Over this extended war holiday of Memorial Day/60th Anniversary of D-Day it seems as if the latest talking point to come from bussh's brain is an attempt to link Iraq to a "good war. In another thread this was pointed out by Dave29:

Have you noticed the "offensive" from the White House Talking Points Council?

Powell "War on Terrorism like fighting Nazis"
Rice "Bush will be remembered like Churchill"
Bush "War on Terror like World War II"

Rove has convinced them to be part of the greatest generalization.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1713414#1713517

Well, in today's tribune Steve Chapman (libretarian, but anti-war from day one and anti-shrub) had an excellent rebut:

Drawing erroneous conclusions
Bush, Rumsfeld, misinterpret our war history

Published June 3, 2004


Weighed down by woe in Iraq, President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld have been seeking consolation in the burdens endured by presidents and commanders in past wars. The message they've been sending lately is that Americans should be patient, resolute and willing to accept sacrifice, just as our forebears were.

snip----------

Those were not wars of choice. They were not undertaken to pre-empt alleged dangers, to bring salvation to oppressed peoples, to set an example of democracy to other nations, or to cow potential aggressors. They were about government's gravest and most basic responsibility: national survival.

For all the efforts to depict Saddam Hussein as "a threat of unique urgency," as Bush claimed before the war, the danger was largely imaginary. Iraq had not attacked the United States, had not threatened to attack the United States and didn't have the means to attack the United States--even if Saddam Hussein had possessed those fabled weapons of mass destruction, which it appears he didn't.

That's why the administration has offered so many other justifications for going into Iraq. But even its own conduct confirms that no vital national interest was ever at stake in Iraq. If it had been, Rumsfeld would not have kept the number of troops so low or planned for a speedy departure.

more (free subscription required)---> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/chi-0406030193jun03,1,2156873.column?coll=chi-news-col

[Generator]

1. I know that's what they are doing

but the only people it works for is the same old crowd. (our famous 40%- the idiots that think everything is like everything else as long as they are told it is)

The rest of the world is ready to punch out our "leaders". Wait for the French protests. Since we helped win WW2 we get a free pass for the rest of history?

Nope.

[LondonAmerican]

2. WWII was a crap war as well

[never cry wolf]

3. self kick for the evening crew, then it can die...n/t