Open Letter to President George W. Bush from Sir Winston Churchill on the Anniversary of “Mission Accomplished.”
May 3rd, 2007 | 4 responses
From the Headquarters of Sir Winston Churchill
near Blenheim Palace
May 3, 2007
Dear President Bush,
Just this my dear man:
“Let us learn our lessons…
Never believe any war will be smooth and easy…
or that anyone who embarks
on that strange voyage
can measure the tides
and hurricanes he will encounter.
“The statesman who yields to war-fever
must realize that once the signal is given,
he is no longer the master
of policy but the slave
of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events…
incompetent or arrogant commanders,
untrustworthy allies,
hostile neutrals,
malignant fortune,
ugly surprise,
awful miscalculations….
“…Always remember, however sure you are
that you could easily win,
that there would not be a war
if the other man did not think
he also had a chance.”
Yours Sincerely,
Winnie
(Sir Winston Churchill quote contained in article “This Time It’s Our War, by Leonard Fein, in The Jewish Daily FORWARD.)
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4 Responses to “Open Letter to President George W. Bush from Sir Winston Churchill on the Anniversary of “Mission Accomplished.””
THAT’S how tough Churchill was. Death can’t stop him.
If Churchill had written that to Bush, he would have been forced to resign like everyone else. HE is allowed to override his military advisors and/or replace them with someone who agrees with him. Its only when democrats try to stop the cycle that people seem concerned with “civilians interfering with military decisions”.
You’re right, Churchill was pretty tough Carpeicthus…I have been reading about him and he had a stroke that was hidden from view while he somehow carried on. He is such a lionized figure, yet was connected with the mass slaughter of life at Gallipoli early in his ‘career,’ and later was one of the signers of an outrageous ethnic cleansing of Eu agreement after the war… Potsdam.
I see his and other ‘leaders’ ‘ stars rise and crash, rise and crash, and then suddenly they soar for a moment in time, for which they are remembered, good or ill, forever after. Destiny.
It has been interesting to watch, Sam, as y ou put it ‘civilians interfering with military decisions…’ Over the decades, there have been so many civilians worldwide who ‘interfered’ to good ends, that is seems like a venerable art instead of some nuisance.
dr. e