The comparisons between Bush’s campaign stop in Baghdad and Hitler’s little jaunt to Paris are coming fast and furious… It seems like we are making all the same mistakes that others in history made.

Another example:

When the British captured Baghdad in 1917, defeating the Ottomans, Gen. Stanley Maude made a declaration to the Iraqis:

“People of Baghdad, remember for 26 generations you have suffered under strange tyrants who have ever endeavoured to set one Arab house against another in order that they might profit by your dissensions. This policy is abhorrent to Great Britain and her Allies for there can be neither peace nor prosperity where there is enmity or misgovernment. Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators.”

Sound familiar?

Our president needs a history lesson quick, before he kills again.

The cowed media labels the trip “heroic” and “courageous,” but of course the 130,000 people he left behind in Iraq are the true heros. If Bush uses this footage in a campaign ad it will hurt him, badly. Using soldiers as extras for a campaign ad would be unforgivable. Not to mention the cost of the trip should come out of campaign funds…