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Sat 10 May, 2003 09:56 am
Eisenhower spoke the truth
Some people complain about celebrities expressing their opinions regarding the Iraq war.
Dwight Eisenhower had a certain amount of "celebrity" as a general, university president, president of the U.S., and a golfer.
I guess the class of celebrity you approve of depends on your polical and social bias. ---BBB
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft fom those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.... This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross."
----- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hi Bumblebee Boogie. Interesting man, Ike. Not much understood by either party. Originally a democrat he was persuaded to run against Stevenson on the theory that all democrats were reds and needed to be thwarted. Once made president, and I guess having a closer view of the mess that is American politics, one senses that he regretted his support for the GOP. He made statement after statement akin to that you offer above, only to be ignored by both parties and the largely immovable populace. He came to truly hate the man who was made his running mate, Nixon, for all the reasons anyone might hate Nixon. The sadness is that, in the end, on his deathbed and essentially comatose, he had to suffer the indignity of a visit from Tricky Dick, who picked up his limp hand to shake it for a campaign photo op.
Should Colin Powell ever be persuaded to run by the GOP (Grabbers of Power?), one suspects he will be treated similarly.
Sigh.
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