History repeats itself, only this time it is Bush and his failed policy.

I HAVE to share this with you!

David Halberstam, in writing about Kennedy's Administration at the building up of Vietnam said, "If the reporters would not write upbeat stories, the Kennedy Administration, facile, particularly good at public relations, would generate its own positive accounts. Thus optimism and optimistic statements became a major and deliberate part of the policy: warfare by public relations, one more reflection of the Kennedy era. High-level Americans were sent over not to learn about Vietnam, not to see Vietnam or to improve what was privately known as a frail policy, but to pump up this weak policy." The Best and the Brightest, p. 255.

Ding, ding, ding -- ring any bells of Bush griping about "pressimistic reporters"?