[Cowperson]

The day that the apparently reformed war-monger, President Dwight D. Eisenhower,

She starts off with an Eisenhower quote and its interesting that she thinks Eisenhower was a war monger and, more particularly, that he changed.

First of all, Eisenhower was a professional soldier in the last "total war" conflict that circled the globe, total war being defined as whole economies and populations on both sides dedicated to the fight in one way or the other.

Did that make him a war monger?

Secondly, did he "reform?"

In the waning days of WWII, in 1945, Eisenhower was opposed to dropping the atomic bomb on Japan.

Yet he also said, in the early 1950's while in office, that America reserved the right to a first strike nuclear policy:

"Ultimately some President might have to decide that it was his duty to strike the first blow against the USSR. You try to shoot your enemy before he shoots you."

He publicly threatened China with nuclear weapons "as you would use a bullet" in 1955 when that country shelled Quemo and Matsu in Taiwan.

He told the British Ambassador once that he "would rather be atomized than communized."

So . . . . he didn't want to nuke Japan but would later threaten China and Russia with first strikes.

I don't think Cindy Sheehan really understands Eisenhower.

Cowperson