[hopespringseternal]

Face it: This present generation of leaders at home would never have made it to Normandy Beach. They would instead have called off the advance to hold hearings on Pearl Harbor, cast around blame for the Japanese internment, sued over the light armor and guns of Sherman tanks, apologized for bombing German civilians, and recalled General Eisenhower to Washington to explain the rough treatment of Axis prisoners.

Someone needs to put this on the president's desk.

[tpaine]

hopespringseternal wrote:

Someone needs to put this on the president's desk

Yes indeed, but it needs editing, so that Bush can get the picture.
-- In his way, Hansen IS laying the mess on the presidents desk:

Our Real Dilemma. We do have a grave problem in this country, but it is not the plan for Iraq, the neoconservatives, or targeting Saddam.
Face it:
This present generation of leaders at home would never have made it to Normandy Beach.
Our groaning and hissing elite indulges itself, while better but forgotten folks risk their lives on our behalf in pretty horrible places.

"Our present generation of leaders" does not exclude the GOP, imo.