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To: Cachelot
Charles Lindbergh's actions BEFORE Hitler declared war on anyone weren't nearly as bad as those DURING the Vietnam War of Jane Fonda (hugged antiaircraft guns in Hanoi), or the rejected by the Senate for confirmation as clinton's "ambassador" Sam Brown (congratulated the North Vietnamese who entered the UN in 1977 upon their murder of 58,000 US troops and hundreds of thousands of civilians). What Lindbergh did in 1937 wasn't right, but he was joined in his initial positive comments on Hitler by none other than Winston Churchill. Lindbergh actively supported the war effort by flying more than 60 combat missions in the Pacific; before the war, he also tendered intelligence on the Luftwaffe to the US Army. In any event, Lindbergh paid in the press and public esteem for his naive statements; Fonda and Brown remain the toast of Hollywood.
37 posted on 08/04/2003 5:15:20 PM PDT by laconic
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To: laconic
What Lindbergh did in 1937 wasn't right, but he was joined in his initial positive comments on Hitler by none other than Winston Churchill.

Funny how you folks try to erase the sh*t from Lindbergh's record by citing others who were, supposedly, worse or as bad. See, it deosn't work. Ol' NB there tried to drag in Truman, you're trying to drag in Churchill. None of them actually tried to build a nazi organization in America. None of them worked actively on Hitler's behalf either, but Lindbergh most certainly did.

Lindbergh actively supported the war effort by flying more than 60 combat missions in the Pacific

After he was excluded from the air force he flew civilian missions as test pilot, which sometimes landed him in combat. True. But note well his biographer's take on why he was willing to take arms against the Japanes:

What, one might have wondered at the time, would be the catalyst to spur the reluctant aviator into war? A hint, says Cole, may lie in his declaration that America's "bond with Europe is a bond of race and not of political ideology," and that "The average intellectual superiority of the white race...is countered by the sensate superiority of the black race." Thus, he added, if the white race were "ever seriously threatened, it may then be time for us to take our part in its protection, to fight side by side with the English, French and Germans, but not with one against the other for our mutual destruction."

he also tendered intelligence on the Luftwaffe to the US Army

But not as a spy. As an official observer sent to germany to inspect the Luftwaffe, all open and above board, with the Germans full cooperation. He even was given opportunity to fly most of their planes.

And the "intelligence" he tendered? It seems to have been strictly to the tune of "do not even think of tackling the Germans". If fact, he was a German "agent of influence", and it's perfectly obvious from Göbbels's diary that this was in collusion with the Germans.

So, Fonda and Brown. You seem to think that that these two critters are bad redeems the nazis. What brainrot.

38 posted on 08/04/2003 7:09:08 PM PDT by Cachelot (~ In waters near you ~)
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