Great opinion piece from Indianapolis Star on "Dead Wrong":

[Contrary1]

Watch TV show to decide who was 'Dead Wrong'

"Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said this week that the longer we stay in Iraq, the more it looks like Vietnam. In so many ways he is right and as a decorated veteran of that earlier war he has the experience and the authority to offer that judgment.

But Vietnam comparisons are wrong in one respect. Listening to the Johnson White House tapes of the early months of 1963-1964, one cannot help but sense the anguish, turmoil and indecision as the president grapples with pressures to escalate the war and send more troops to the inescapable battlefields of Southeast Asia. Sleepless to the point that Lady Bird worried for his health, LBJ would go to the White House situation room at midnight to await the nightly casualty reports.

By contrast, George W. Bush is "hangin' loose," as he puts it, spending August at the ranch in Crawford, riding his bike, taking side trips to friendly conventions of veterans and hitting the sack by nine. At the VFW, he presented the latest version of his rolling rationale for continuing the war in Iraq. We must finish the task, he now says, to honor the fallen.

Yet he cannot find time to meet with Cindy Sheehan, the mother of a fallen soldier who demands to know what noble cause her son died for. "I've got to get on with my life," said the president. His life? Could he have found a more infelicitous formulation?

More... http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050826/OPINION/508260425/1002

[Solly Mack]

1. Excellent

[EC]

2. ha

so it begins...

[yorkiemommie1]

3. judging from everything i have read about *

during his younger years he HAS no conscience. His mama and papa raised him and the rest of their spawn to have no regard for other beings whether they be frogs or people. he is behaving true to form.

he is a petty, vindictive, truly LITTLE man.