Bush and Churchill

In 1921, after the fateful Cairo Conference that set up the Arab countries that we know of today, Winston Churchill spoke to Parliament, describing the new country (Iraq) that he helped design. This worldly gentleman stated, “Our object and our policy is to set up an Arab government and to make it take the responsibility, with our aid and our guidance and with an effective measure of our support, until they are strong enough to stand alone, and so to foster the development of their independence as to permit the steady and speedy diminution of our burden.”

Our president, “Bush of Arabia,” who thinks of himself as the modern day Churchill, keeps a bust of the respected, old gentleman in his office at the White House. And here he is, almost a century later saying the very same things while evidently facing the very same failure. Of course he first essentially destroyed the Iraq that Churchill created at that conference. He did this along with over 3,600 American troop lives, to date.

No matter how you look at it, Bush ain’t no Churchill.