Churchill for Dummies

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The obsession of the neocons with Israel's regional enemy Saddam Hussein has a Churchill connection, too. On 16 March 2003, the Wall Street Journal published an oped by Churchill's grandson and namesake, [Winston S. Churchill], entitled 'My Grandfather Invented Iraq: And He Has Lessons for Us Today'.

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Churchill for Dummies

Soon after the installation by the Republican-majority Supreme Court of George the Second of the House of Bush, the American people learned that they had a new Founding Father: Winston Churchill. President George W. Bush let it be known that he had placed a bust of the British statesman in the White House Oval Office he had inherited from his dad. After the attack on the World Trade Center, the President's speeches became self-consciously Churchillian. Earlier this year, marking the opening of a Churchill exhibition at the Library of Congress, Bush observed that Churchill was not just 'the rallying voice of the second world war' but also 'a prophet of the Cold War'.

Like his grand strategy, with its combination of unilateral American world domination with...

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