Fiddling While Rome Burns


April 5 2004


On April 5, 2004, as more than a dozen Americans died in the bloody uprising in Iraq, George W. Bush decided to play baseball. Today as I prepared this photograph, CNN announced that Bush arrived in Crawford, Texas for his Easter Vacation.

Excuse me, Mr. President, Easter is 4 days away, shouldn’t you be in the White House Situation Room? Don’t you care that your war plan is falling apart?

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