Truthdig: Bush Flunks History

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Bush Flunks History

Posted on Feb 20, 2007

today.reuters.com

In honor of Presidents Day, George Bush made a ridiculous attempt to portray George Washington as a supporter of the Iraq War—the same George Washington who left office warning against foreign entanglements.

While speaking at Mount Vernon, Bush quoted our first president as saying, “My best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.”

Washington was a lover of freedom to be sure, slave owner that he was, but he never made mention of being excited by an oppressed nation having the banners of freedom forcibly unfurled upon them.

He did, however, argue against “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.”

Reuters:

Joined by his wife Laura, with a military honor guard wearing Revolutionary War uniforms standing at attention, Bush laid a wreath at the tomb of the first American president on the Presidents Day holiday to mark Washington’s birth 275 years ago.

Standing before the Mount Vernon mansion and sharing the stage with an actor dressed as Gen. George Washington, Bush said Washington’s Revolutionary War leadership inspired generations of Americans “to stand for freedom in their own time.” .....(more)

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1. Condi's latest diplomacy dud is a real stink bomb.

Of course, aren't they all... when she's in the room?