Don't mention the drinking

The first Churchill-Bush comparison of 2006 shows up in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal (subs req'd):

... newly declassified records of ... War Cabinet meetings ...
In 1942, the Cabinet discussed the options were Hitler to fall into British hands ... Churchill favored swifter means of dealing with Hitler. "This man is the mainspring of evil. Instrument -- electric chair, for gangsters." ... There is no record of his views on water-boarding ... At another Cabinet meeting, he advocated shooting German POWs if the Nazis were to kill British prisoners (the U.K., for the record, never did). After the Germans massacred the people of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, Churchill proposed, perhaps again half seriously, "wiping out German villages by air attack on a three-for-one basis." The Cabinet overruled him.

So they give 3 examples of Bush'sChurchill's wartime leadership, where in each case Churchill's ideas were either moot or overruled! If it is true, as the VRC argues, that Bush is the reincarnation of Churchill (when he's not the reincarnation of George III), then it would be nice if the current Cabinet had a little of Winston's War Cabinet good sense and overruled him every so often.

UPDATE: Freestater also reads the coverage of the Churchill papers, and without the Bush cult-of-personality blinkers on, finds lots of interesting stuff.