{"id":122,"date":"2006-04-12T21:35:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T02:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=122"},"modified":"2006-07-18T17:19:10","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T22:19:10","slug":"lincoln-vs-bush-as-commander-and-chief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=122","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln vs Bush as Commander and Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/04\/12\/AR2006041201114.html\"><strong>Another top officer<\/strong><\/a><strong>, who declined a promotion in Iraq because he could not abide serving under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is calling for his sacking.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>As Rumsfeld serves at the pleasure of the President a quick comparison of war presidents is order.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lincoln who had even less military experience than Bush studied all the top books on warfare while he was president. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bush put on a flight suit and co-piloted a plane to a &#8220;Mission Accomplished&#8221; banner hung up on an aircraft carrier.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lincoln put up with a great deal of public criticism from his top commanders most notably McClellan. Despite this McClellan was allowed to continue serving until Lincoln was confident could replace him.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bush and Rumsfeld tolerate no dissent. Any suggestion that a force larger than Rumsfeld&#8217;s pet idea of a\u00c2\u00a0small super effective force has led to the resignation of one officer after another.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>After four years most of the top union officers, most notably, US Grant, had complete confidence in\u00c2\u00a0their President.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Today, retired officers are coming out like crazy to call\u00c2\u00a0for Rumsfeld&#8217;s departure. Considering Bush&#8217;s\u00c2\u00a0pathetic dependence\u00c2\u00a0on\u00c2\u00a0his Secretary of Defense (<a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=119\">see Yucks or yuck<\/a>)hose who remain are probably biting their tongues so that they don&#8217;t jeopardize their retirment plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong \/><\/p>\n<p><strong \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another top officer, who declined a promotion in Iraq because he could not abide serving under Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld is calling for his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bush-leagues","category-war-on-terror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}