[Rhodes22-list] Question for Brad about Iraq Information (political)
Herb Parsons
HParsons at parsonsys.com
Tue Jul 10 16:44:44 EDT 2007
100%???? Did you REALLY mean "one hundred percent"? As in every single citizen of the Untied States?
If so, I think you better go back and bone up on your history some.
Now, FDR DID get the backing of the press, which President Bush has never enjoyed, and likely never will. But then, just about any president will have trouble getting that type of backing in the shadow of the "look what we 'accomplished' during the Vietnam/Watergate era's" press mentality.
Herb Parsons
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>>> <DCLewis1 at aol.com> 7/10/2007 2:24 PM >>>
Point of information: FWIW, Hitler/Germany declared war on the US Dec 11,
1941. That is what enabled FDR to go after Europe and not just Japan.
As I recall, the US had been participating via Lend-Lease prior to that
declaration, but I believe it's generally accepted that FDR understood that the
country had to be 100% behind any war effort and he couldn't get that support
until Pearl Harbor (justified war against Japan), and then Hitler's
declaration (justified war against Germany and Italy). Today, getting the country
100% behind any war is regarded as unnecessary, you decide whether FDR was
smarter than Bush (or Lyndon Johnson).
As for Congress, since WWII Congress has never seen a war it didn't like -
at least initially. This comment includes the screaming liberals ( a chance
to "improve" the world!), and all those who claim to be conservative, but have
difficulty spelling the word (hey, it's good for business, and besides I
love a parade!).
Dave
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