L.A. Times:President Bush equated the war in Iraq on Wednesday with the U.S. war for independence. Like those revolutionaries who "dropped their pitchforks and picked up their muskets to fight for liberty," Bush said, American soldiers were also fighting "a new and unprecedented war" to protect U.S. freedom.
In a reprise of speeches he delivered throughout the 2006 congressional campaign, the president said the threat that emerged on Sept. 11, 2001, remained today and "a major enemy in Iraq is the same enemy that dared attack the United States on that fateful day."
The president was adamant in his Fourth of July message that he would stand up to calls to end the war before he believes it has been won. When Congress returns next week, Democrats plan to renew their push to bring home the troops.
Considering that this is the president least respect for american liberty and freedom in recent memory, the hypocrisy factor's already pegging the dial. But US forces overthrew a government in Iraq, set up a puppet replacement, and -- far from fighting a revolution -- are busy putting down rebellion in Iraq. We aren't the revolutionaries in this analogy, we're the british -- complete with hessian mercenaries. The only thing that the Iraq war and the revolutionary war have in common is that both involved americans with guns.
I don't think this is a war George Washington would've signed onto, having said in his farewell address, "It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world," and we should "avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to Republican Liberty."...
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