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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (65751)	11/28/2009 7:54:19 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

"If I were president I would have entered WWII when they invaded Poland" No, you wouldn't. You would never have gotten the votes for a declaration. The best you would have done is Lend-Lease. "without a doubt when I found out about the concentration camps." We were in within a month of finding out; not for that reason, but we were in. So, you are left with, What would you do differently? Bomb the camps? Skip North Africa? Invade Italy in Dec '41? D Day in the spring of '42? And, would you have changed yer plans to intern the Japanese living here? The first news of the extermination camps used largely for mass murder (that is, for the Holocaust) first reached Britain in November 1941 from the Polish Underground. The report related to mass shootings and to Chelmno camp. It met with skepticism in the British Foreign Office. By the spring of 1942 much more information of a similar kind reached Britain and the U.S. However, in both countries the governments were reluctant to publish full details. The motives for this are unclear. wiki.answers.com