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currently reading the biography of Winston Churchill (if you don't know who he is......)by William Manchester, and I am struck by the similarities and differences between Bush Jr And Churchill.
They both came from aristocratic upper class families with long histories of government service.
They both did relatively poorly in school and did not care much for the academic life.
They both served in the military and later achieved the top office available to them in their respective governments.
And that is where their paths diverge.
Churchill when young joined the military and actively onspired to be put into combat situations while Bush dodged them. Churchill when young supported himself through his own efforts, selling his articles and stories, while still receiving some family subsidy, while Bush was supported and bailed out exclusively by his family after being nothing but a personal and fiancial failure.
Churchill was a true man of action who engaged in many truly heroic behaviors while Bush has been and always will be a coward.
Churchill warned his nation of the impending threat (Nazi Germany) and was derided, then called upon to save the nation, while Bush had no clue and dismissed Clinton papers warning of the impending threat of terrorist attack, failed to prevent the threat from becoming reality, then lied about it all to start an illegal war.
And finally, during the months of his greatest triumph, the surrender of Germany and Japan at the end of WW two, The british people turned Churchill and his political party out of office. Now let us hope at last there is something historic that Winston and George will share.
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