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

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (581929)	6/10/2004 6:22:01 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"The French were in a convoluted way fighting their centuries-old enemy, the English, when they befriended the colonies." No kidding. And, there was NOTHING 'convoluted' about it! "The numerous American lives lost on the beaches of Normandy & continued losses fighting for French liberation from Hitler, more than cancelled the debt." That's what I said: we're even. (Don't forget that we also gave them special permission after WW II to spend all of their Marshall Plan money on fighting to regain their little Colonial Empire in Vietnam... while the Germans and Japanese spent their Marshall Plan money on useful stuff like rebuilding their industrial infrastructure.) That should definitely make us 'even' (especially since we didn't fight WW II solely to be helpful and humanitarian toward the rest of the world --- we were fighting for our own skins, too.) "What's wrong with this picture?" That's the pesky little thing about Democracies --- their decisions about what to do aren't as easy to predict as Dictatorships. But, considering that large majorities in their public opinion were against starting a war without a better Causus Belli... it's not surprising that they didn't want to participate in a War right away.