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To: energyplay who wrote (17190)	4/15/2007 9:21:49 PM
From: Slagle	Respond to of 218005

Energyplay, The problem was separation of powers and Roosevelt acting in an unconstitutional manner. Roosevelt had no legal basis for the action he took against Japan in August 1941 unless he had obtained a congressional resolution first, which congress would not have given him. The war making power belongs to the congress, not the executive. In those days, even the oil and scrap steel export issue with regards to Japan was clearly the prerogative of the congress, not the executive. Japan was not guilty of any treaty violations or other offenses against the United States that would have allowed Roosevelt to assert executive privilege and act without the congress and neither did he claim any such violation. What he did was act covertly and then when asked about it by the press, he lied. All of this many months before Pearl Harbour. What Roosevelt did was defy the will of the American people and the US Congress and march us straight to war. But with Roosevelt you had him serving as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under the Woodrow Wilson and with Roosevelt repeatedly claiming the scoundrel Wilson as his "mentor", so I suppose there should be no surprise. Slagle