CIAO DATE: 6/5/2006
A Fitting Address
James Q. Wilson
December 2005
Abstract
President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney are arguing against critics of the Iraq war who are trying to rewrite history by claiming that the administration misled the country into war. There is some value in this, but it is a fight about the past and not about the future. What most Americans care about is not who is lying but whether we are winning. I offer this speech that the president might use to tell Americans that we are winning.