While catching up on my late night reading, I came upon the following quotation:

“The Peace Democrats accused the administration of wasting the lives of [its] citizens in a costly [ideological] war . . . The real reaction was seen at the November elections . . . The Democrats won in many [Republican] communities and gained substantially in both the House and Senate.”

President Bush? The War in Iraq? Actually, the quotation is from John Hope Franklin’s book, “From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African-Americans,” and discusses President Lincoln’s predicament in the 1862-64 elections. Bush is not Lincoln, of course, and Iraq (Afghanistan) is not the Civil War. Casualties are no less painful, especially on Memorial Day, because the war is justified. But it makes you think a bit, doesn’t it?