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To: nihil who wrote (53497)	8/30/1999 7:43:00 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 108807

Now we realize why you are called know-nihil! >>. You will recall that Roosevelt assigned many officers to the CCC in 1933 and there was a bad shortage of officers. Congress refused to appropriated enough to bring Army up to authorized strength. This was a period of extreme pacifism. Certainly there was a builddown in the 1920's - that had always happened after a major war! - but MacArthur went to the mat with FDR over his extreme gutting of the military in the early 1930's. While you have demonstrated little understanding of history, perhaps you can watch television. PBS just ran a multi-part documentary on MacArthur which details his clash with FDR over FDR eviscerating the military with drastic budget cuts from the Hoover level. FDR owned Congress at that time and they did his bidding - you are at best an ignorant person to claim that a Democrat Congress overrode FDR's wishes. Implementation of the draft, which often adumbrates the prelude to war is far far different than keeping the military properly funded, which FDR not only failed to do but was responsible for and came at a time when many suspected that FDR wanted a foreign war. >>I always thought Hughes and Coolidge were traitors. Now that is really something coming from an FDR defender, but probably predictable given the need to expiate FDR's responsibility. FDR - the man who was the "peace candidate" in 1940, who promised the electorate that he would not send their boys to die in a foreign war - the supreme demagogue who eviscerated the military and then after the New Deal had foundered sought to lead the nation to war. The man who needed a galvanizing event to push the nation and allowed that to happen at Pearl Harbor. Funny that Churchill (and others) knew the attack was coming. FDR - there's your and history's traitor.