Reply #24: The Onion journalist (and doubtless many other Americans)

[Joe Chi Minh]

meticulously detailed it all in advance (well.... improbable as it seems, it's been even worse), yet these mutts are pondering this knotty conundrum.

As UK Labour Party giant, Aneurin Bevan, observed, "Why look in the crystal ball when you can read the book?" The Onion did the former most penetratingly, yet a lot of these "historians", it seems, can't even "read the book".

Churchill was a very indifferent politician, but a pre-eminent statesman, who in a time of great crisis, was finally able to mobilise strong support from all quarters, most notably, of course, the US. I wonder if Bush's apologists see a distinguished statesman and world leader in Bush, whose genius simply awaits recognition....