To: jttmab who wrote (8026 ) 11/30/2001 12:10:22 PM From: Neocon Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93284 This is what Delano Roosevelt said: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.'"