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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (7982)	11/29/2001 11:10:05 PM
From: RON BL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Thursday Nov. 29, 2001; 6:29 p.m. EST FDR's Grandson Backs Bush Anti-Terror Tactics Delano Roosevelt, grandson of World War II President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, says he backs President Bush's decision to round up suspected terrorists who aren't American citizens and try them, at Bush's discretion, in military tribunals - as well as other controversial aspects of the Bush Justice Department's war on terrorism. "As far as enacting special powers when the country is in the predicament that we are....there are certain things that you have to do and certain steps that you have to take," Roosevelt told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg late Wednesday. "I hope people don't lose sight of this: We were attacked on our home turf," he reminded. "The world changed immediately." The FDR heir said he agreed with talk radio host Rush Limbaugh, who wrote in a Washington Post op-ed piece that day: "The Bush administration's detention program seems reasonable in its scope and purpose. In contrast, FDR's World War II internment of nearly 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry, including 70,000 U.S. citizens, was an outrage." Limbaugh continued: "I suppose if Bush were to follow in FDR's footsteps, he could have signed an executive order authorizing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to round up Muslim Americans and force them into detention camps." "You know, the thing is, (Bush) could," Roosevelt told Malzberg. "But in this day and age where political correctness seems to be guiding just about every aspect of our lives, there would be an uprising rather than people having trust in their Commander-in-Chief." The grandson of America's only four-term president said that FDR had made a terrible mistake in interning Japanese-Americans, but that given the nature of the threat the U.S. now faces, he thinks non-citizen Muslims should consider leaving the U.S. "What we should have done back then and maybe what we should be doing right now, vs detaining people, is saying.... if you're here on a visa, it's time for you to go home." The life-long Democrat said he was disturbed to see the bipartisan unity that ruled Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks coming unraveled. "It almost seems that nowadays (it's), 'Yeah, O.K., we did that for three weeks but now we've got to hammer (President Bush) down a little bit.'" FDR's grandson warned that while legislators were entitled to debate the Bush proposals, enemies of America were sure to take comfort in any gratuitous criticism of the Commander-in-Chief. "I'm hoping that people will remember that people fought and died to have this kind of scenario exist where we can disagree with one another, where we can have checks and balances. "(But) I'm hoping that everyone can keep it together long enough that it won't be a sign of weakness to countries looking at us. That would be a huge win for the Taliban, if they could cause this kind of internal strife." Roosevelt also criticized ex-President Bill Clinton for a speech earlier this month where he suggested that America shared responsibility for the 9/11 attacks. "I really had a problem with that myself," he told Malzberg. "I don't get it.... I'm dumbfounded by it as much as everyone else seems to be."