*That person* was John Dos Passos. He was a famous communist writer of the period. The article is question was in Life magazine in 1946. Dos Passos was their war correspondent.
I was surprised that the media didn't touch that one. Dos Passos is an icon in the Left's historical literary pantheon. But no effort was ever made to present him as anything except an unabashed leftist. Had they brought his name/reputation to the fore, it would have made a telling point about the critics of America vis-a-vis Iraq.
Here's a reprint of the article from Rush's site. Notice the swipe suggesting war crimes and the familiar litany "We've lost the peace."
[...]
“It’s what our boys have been doing that worries me.”
The lieutenant has been talking about the traffic in Army property, the leaking of gasoline into the black market in France and Belgium even while the fighting was going on, the way the Army kicks the civilians around, the looting.
“Lust, liquor and loot are the soldier’s pay,” interrupts a red-faced major.
The lieutenant comes out with his conclusion: “Two wrongs don’t make a right.” You hear these two phrases again and again in about every bull session on the shop. “Two wrongs don’t make a right” and “Don’t think I’m sticking up for the Germans, but….”
The troops returning home are worried. “We’ve lost the peace,” men tell you. “We can’t make it stick.” [...]
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/eibessential2/life.guest.html
At first, I thought the reference was timid for not mentioning Dos Passos' ideology. But, relative to this thread, I am now wondering if it was simply a veiled reference aimed squarely at the Democrats and the leftist media. W was telling them we are on to their strategy, it is a tired one and we aren't going to let them get away with it. In that instance, it would have been in the media's interest to let the reference slide. There is no way they could have painted Dos Passos as other than what he was.