The"Little Churchills"

There have been numerous comparisons over the past year by Bush supporters to Bush's wartime leadership and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill's leadership during WW II. Glenn Greenwald has a great post on the subject, which concludes with:

"Churchill accomplished exactly that which Bush cannot manage - - namely, he convinced his country that the war he was leading was legitimate and necessary and that confidence in his war leadership was warranted. It's precisely because Bush is incapable of achieving that that he and his followers are now insisting that democratic debate itself over the Leader and the war is illegitimate and unpatriotic. One can call that many things. 'Churchillian' isn't one of them. Nor, for that matter, is 'American.'"

As Congressional hearings delve more into the manipulation of intelligence and the bogus arguments for attacking Iraq - - and how this was deeply damaging to the war on al-Qaeda that was being waged in Afghanistan - - the more desperate the Leader and his followers will become to deny the reality that their war of choice in Iraq undermined the legitimate war on terror. And put America at greater risk.