[4CJ]

Without mentioning Bush by name, Burns drew parallels between today's political leaders and the Iraq war, versus Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War, which he chronicled in an award-winning film series.

It must be something in the water - upholding Lincoln as the paragon of virtue in time of war.

[stainlessbanner]

There is a class of "historians" (term used loosely) that are making a tidy profit off bread and circuses.