Eisenhower a la carte

Dubya is now pushing comparisons between himself and General Eisenhower. G.A. Cerny notes that the two have very different notions of personal responsibility. But in addition, Ike has been judged politically incorrect by Dubya's speechwriters. So in today's New York Times, we learn that:

Mr. Bush told the cadets that "on this day in 1944, General Eisenhower sat down at his headquarters in the English countryside and wrote out a message to the "Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Forces" who would soon be invading Normandy. Mr. Bush said Eisenhower wrote that "the eyes of the world are upon you" and "the hopes of prayers or liberty-loving people everywhere march with you."

Mr. Bush omitted the first line of Eisenhower's message, which was, "You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months."

There's another line from his speech pushing the comparison of WWII with the War on Terror:

The terrorists of our day are, in some ways, unlike the enemies of the past. The terrorist ideology has not yet taken control of a great power like Germany or the Soviet Union.

Which again means that Ike has to be censored because in another of his D-day statements, the great man wrote:

This landing is part of a concerted United Nations plan for the liberation of Europe, made in conjunction with our great Russian allies.

D'OH!