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To: Seeker of Truth who wrote (17179)	4/15/2007 6:25:48 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 218005

Seeker, What Roosevelt did was take a series of actions designed to provoke an attack on the USA by first Germany and then Japan as Roosevelt desired a war against these nations, as opposed to the desires of the American people who demanded peace. If war with Germany or Japan had been acceptable to the country, Roosevelt could have gone to the congress in 1939 or even earlier and asked for a declaration of war, but if he had done this the US Congress would likely have responded with a bill of impeachment against him instead. Read Churchill's "Finest Hour" series of books. Churchill speaks very openly about the methods he and Roosevelt took to circumvent the demands of the American people. I did not say the war was "unjust". That is your remark. Read my earlier post again, or are you just trying to be dense? I was quite clear and if you like I can provide references. Roosevelt PROVOKED the Japanese attack by a series of actions that he and Cordell Hull took against Japan, acts that were quite illegal at the time. A similar method applied against Germany had not produced the desired result so they, in the summer of 1941 intensified the pressure on Japan. Their initiative finally succeeded on December 7, 1941. What the American people wanted, Democrat and Republican alike, was peace. What Roosevelt promised the American people was peace. What he did was violate the law and bring on a war. The war was not our war, it was Europe's war, Asia's war. To fight with Hitler and Tojo required an American alliance with the most evil dictatorship of all, the USSR. We should have stood aside and let the dictatorships destroy each other, it wasn't our fight. I have young children I don't want them to be sacrificed to "bring democracy' to some far away nation. I don't care if Iraq or England or Canada for that matter has "democracy' or dictatorship. If you want war, you go fight somewhere. I can see fighting a war with Canada or Mexico over a border dispute. I can't imagine any reason whatsoever to go halfway around the world to fight a war. Slagle