On being wiser than President Bush

In voicing LOYAL opposition to the war against Iraq - which

    in no way implies sympathy for tyranny - our Senator Lincoln Chafee

    is a class act. And he is hardly finished as a Rhode Island political

    leader. Perhaps his honorable father -a war hero -taught him something

    memorable about the horrors of war. And he surly recalls the Vietnam

    nightmare.

            Presently vociferous patriots remind me of those rather

    obnoxious -and dangerous - British soccer fans. One tells a reporter:

    How dare THEY- the anti-war crowd - think they are wiser than THE

    PRESIDENT !  Well, EXCUSE ME.... how dare ANYBODY feel intellectually

    superior to George W. Bush ? Like pro-choice Catholics thinking

    they are wiser than THE POPE !

           By the way both  George W. Bush and His Holiness are PRO-

    LIFE. But His Holiness is nervous about this seemingly imperialist

    war to liberate Iraq.

               It seems that the world is right back to where it was

    on August 1914 - up for grabs !  No joy compares to the joy of

    dying for fatuous slogans .

              Ernest Hemingway wrote a short story about a disillusioned

    veteran of the Great War: " Soldier's Home ". Certain words like

    HONOR and GLORY he could no longer stand to hear .