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To: Victory111

“Gallia est omnis divisa in partres tres. (All Gaul is divided into three parts)” Julius Cesaer The Conquest of Gaul

“I divided Afghanistan into three parts” Cesaer Obama, The Defeat in Afghanistan


4 posted on 11/02/2009 8:15:34 AM PST by ThirdMate
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To: ThirdMate
They both like Latin aphorisms.

Caesar: Veni, vidi, vici.

Obama: Vero, possumus (2009 campaign slogan)

Caesar wrote a work attacking Cato the Younger (after Cato's suicide) called the Anti-Cato. (Unfortunately it wasn't preserved so we don't know exactly what Caesar said about Cato.)

Obama's memoirs should be called Anti-Bush since that is the main theme of his administration, as well as the reason for his Nobel Prize.

Cato died rather than to live under Caesar's dictatorship, and became a symbol of the Roman Republic. Despite his shortcomings in some areas, President Bush was a real patriot who believed in the American Republic. If Obama has his way, we may look back to Bush the way the Romans looked back to Cato, as a symbol of the lost Republic.

5 posted on 11/02/2009 9:50:54 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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