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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: BlueCrab who wrote (13665)	4/16/1998 4:09:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 20981

>>violating the Neutrality Acts>> I'm glad he did, along with a few hundred million other people. Would you have preferred Hitler in London and Moscow? FDR would not have needed to do so had he not demagogued about it during the 1940 election, promising he would not send American boys to fight a foreign war. Remember, he had enormous majorities in Congress. Where were his vaunted powers of persuasion? It's not like the Germans didn't know - FDR's objective was to keep Americans uninformed about his actions. >>knowing about and allowing the Japanese to bomb Pearl Harbor?>> He probably knew that the Japanese were going to attack US installations in the Far East; they had been threatening to do so for months. He didn't know when or where, and he certainly didn't expect them to attack Pearl. Neither did the US Navy, which had been warned of possible acts of war but did virtually nothing to increase readiness. It is generally accepted by historians now that Roosevelt did know about the impending attack and actually provoked it by denying the Japanese access to vital raw materials. Many people in government at that time knew about the attack beforehand and have subsequently confirmed that fact. Only the dwindling number of New Deal "historians" try to maintain the fiction that FDR didn't know. FDR wanted and needed a dramatic event to get US into war because his previous demagoguery had made it impossible for him to persuade the US public. Too bad so many were sacrificed for his politics. Remember FDR was a cold political calculator - before the whole world he even turned away the refugee Jews on the S.S. St. Louis, giving Hitler a major propaganda victory. How many of those escaped death when they were returned to Europe? You are quite wrong about the Navy and many cite the evidence that most of the fleet was sent out of Pearl Harbor shortly before the attack. The Japanese had failed in their mission and gave FDR the event he needed to get the US into war. Indeed, US entry into the war saved the World from Axis victory but more importantly for FDR it saved him domestically too, because the New Deal had been an economic failure until the US was converted to a war economy. >><<trying to pack the Supreme Court>> He did nothing illegal - sneaky, yes, and underhanded, but he did not get far enough along to be illegal. Had he done anything impeachable, he would have been impeached. At the time, he wasn't even popular in his own party. Not illegal? Before FDR no one needed a law to prevent that. As for impeachment, no Dem Congress would have impeached their FDR, no matter what he perpetrated. >><<Or using the Federal government as an extention of his re-election campaign? In 1936 the Federal Government was the FDR campaign. And FDR laughed about it. >>And BTW, it was Goldwater who mentioned nuclear weapons and North Vietnam in the same sentence. Nobody wanted to hear that, not even the Republicans. It didn't matter, because the media had already destroyed him when he made that "extremism" quote from Cicero.