Summary
With election day less than a year away, President Bush must justify something most Americans detest: a seemingly endless string of American casualties on foreign soil.
No doubt the president will argue that we must risk American lives in Iraq to bring our democratic way of life to a once- enslaved nation. He will proclaim that we are doing once again what the "greatest generation" did during World War II. He will tell us that the WWII generation became the greatest because it understood so well the stark difference between our democracy and totalitarianism.See the full content of this document
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For Mom, Apple Pie - and Iraq?
But the popular memory of that era does not match the reality of that time. If Bush campaign strategists take a careful look at Americans as they were 60 years ago, they should see trouble ahead.
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