This is coming out an article from The Guardian and I think it's worth to think about it.

"The president thus uses "the war" as a sort of broom for sweeping aside the opposition on all kinds of issues, but there is no reason to believe he does not also sincerely see himself as a war leader trying to remind the less far-sighted that they cannot behave in divisive peacetime ways. He has, for instance, interested himself in Churchill, asking for briefings on how the great man conducted himself in the difficult days before the Americans came in, and on such aspects as how far Britain had to curtail civil liberties in the 1940s. Churchill, of course, is a more attractive model to a Republican than America's own Franklin D Roosevelt."


"The struggle against terrorism, Bush said this week, is more akin to the second world war than to Vietnam. Vietnam, nevertheless, is worth remembering because it teaches the lesson that "politics ought to stay out of fighting the war"."


 http://www.guardian.co.uk/bush/story/0,7369,667652,00.html