I think George Herbert Walker Bush, the nations 41st Chief Executive, has a moral obligation to publicly renounce George Walker Bush's, the nations 43rd Chief Executive, "Stay the Course" Iraq War policy.

In reading Bob Woodward's new book, State of Denial, in chapter 2, page 11, you find the following eerie quote from the elder Bush who was attending, as an honored guest, a gathering of Gulf War veterans:

"We could have done it. You guys could have done it. You could have been there (Baghdad) in 48 hours. And then what? Which sergeant, which private, whose life would be at stake in perhaps a fruitless hunt in an urban guerrilla war to find the most-secure dictator in the world? Whose life would be on my hands as commander-in-chief because I, unilaterally, went beyond the international law, went beyond the stated mission, and said we're going to show our macho? We're going into Baghdad. We're going to be an occupying power--America in an Arab land--with no allies at our side. It would have been disastrous."

I find that quote to be powerful considering these deeply intellectual and emotional thoughts came from the father of the current commander-in-chief who literally obliterated this entire foreshadow, and quite frankly, made every bit of this warning come true.

Former President George H.W. Bush has a moral obligation to all of us in emphatically influencing his son to drop this fake macho arrogance and make drastic changes to his war policy, absent of more empty slogans. There is no doubt that the relationship between the two men is as cold as ice, and more likely the two rarely speak except through other parties, but it is high time to drop the inner-family 6 party talks and have a heart to heart on the state of our union. As a former president, 41 owes at least that much to the American people.