President's Day

I see that the President used President's Day to assert that George Washington would have approved of our invasion of Iraq because the invasion of Iraq and the Revolutionary War are so similar.

Huh....

There are not enough gigabytes available to me list even the major differences between the Revolutionary War and the Invasion of Iraq.

Suffice to say that the Revolutionary War was an insurgency fought by American colonists to establish themselves as an independent democratic republic in America. It was a war to restore the democracy colonists enjoyed in their home country and a war to throw off English imperialism (that is to get rid of a foreign occupying army.)

The invasion Iraq involved the invasion of a foreign country by Americans, with no consent or aid from Iraqis to establish a form of government that has no history in Iraq. Moreover, George Washington did not build his movement by telling people that the British Army had weapons of mass destruction and were colluding the Native Americans to butcher the colonists. George Washington did build his movement by saying things like:

Permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and
passionate
attachments for others, should be excluded. The nation which
indulges towards
another a habitual hatred or a habitual fondness is in some
degree a slave. It
is a slave to its animosity or to its affection.