Was it in March of 1968 - that awesome year ! - that Mr. Hubris
himself, LBJ , said in a solemn and melancholy tone : " I shall not
seek.... " He was FINISHED as president of the United States , destroyed
by Vietnam , a war he could just not stop. He could not say NO to the
mad bombers in the Pentagon.
Next year around this time President George W. Bush - a
Texas cowboy like Lyndon Johnson - will, I bet, make a similar speech.
It seems that the only way we could save Iraq was to destroy
it. But there were unexpected consequences. The American people asked
themselves : " Are we safer from terrorism than we were four years ago ? "
They asked : " Are we better off economically than we were four
years ago ? "
A smiling Hillary Clinton has just won the New Hampshire
primary. Husband Bill is beside her holding her hand -and smiling
too, his face blushing its primary colors.
Who says history is bunk ?
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