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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: truedog who wrote (1868)	7/25/1999 7:58:00 PM
From: chalu2	Respond to of 769667

Perhaps a partial retraction is in order. All truedog has actually said is that FDR ordered the Pacific fleet into Pearl Harbor, with advance knowledge that Japan would likely bomb the fleet in harbor, killing many Americans. Truedog holds FDR responsible for every one of these American deaths. Truedog further contends that FDR's actions were economically motivated; FDR believed America's entry into World War Two would boost the economy (assuming we and our Allies won). Truedog condemns the barbarism of the Japanese during World War Two and before, but wants us to put them in their proper historical context. Many centuries before, Japan was invaded or almost invaded by Mongols. The Chinese who were invaded by the Japanese in the 1930's were, according to truedog, "part Mongol", and thus rightly or wrongly magnets for Japanese animosity. The U.S. economic sanctions against the Japanese after they joined up with Hitler and Mussolini and began invading and killing their neighbors were treaty violations; this hampered Japanese conquest efforts, and (since the U.S. had acted so dishonorably) required Japan from its perspective to retaliate under the long standing Samurai honor code known as Bushido (literally, "the way of the Warrior"). Have I got it right now?