The Real Churchill On February 4th, President Bush eulogized the
life of Winston Churchill. The president described Winston
Churchill as a "great man" and quickly zeroed in on the mistress
that both Bush and Churchill share: war. "He was a prisoner in
the Boer War, a controversial strategist in the Great War. He
was the rallying voice of the Second World War, and a prophet of
the Cold War." Indeed, there doesn't seem to have been a war—or
an opportunity for war—that Churchill wasn't associated with
during his long career. Bush also recited Churchill's famous
retort that "History will be kind to me, for I intend to write
it" adding that "history has been kind to Winston Churchill, as
it usually is to those who help save the world," surely hoping
that history will be kind to George W. Bush. Except this history
is a myth. The truth about the real Churchill—the Churchill that
few know—is that he was "a man of the state: of the welfare
state and of the warfare state" in Professor Ralph Raico's turn-
of-phrase. The