He may have approved the landings, but he didn’t “order them”.
Not a whole lot of ‘spiking the football’
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=President+ordered+d-day#q=President+ordered+d-day&hl=en&safe=off&gl=us&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:1940,cd_max:1949&tbm=nws&source=lnt&sa=X&psj=1&ei=wQygT66FJIe42wXD6_yoAg&ved=0CBUQpwUoCQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=7771b51a6920411a&biw=1366&bih=608
Here is another question. During all the spiking the football, has Obama once honored the SEALS who were killed in the revenge attack?
This is a great comparison, and there are others.
Don’t forget to mention to all your liberal friends that it was Richard Nixon who gave the go ahead for the Apollo 11 Moon landing.
We should rename the Florida coast Cape Nixon.
I think that, when notified of the landings, he got on the radio and called for a national prayer.
http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/odddayp.html
Don’t much like FDR and all the crap he saddled us with, but, relative to today’s Democrats, he was a class act.
Ever hear Truman bragging about “getting Hitler and Tojo”?
FDR gave the order to “get Yamamoto” and he was killed in 1943. Was that a major theme of FDR’s re-election campaign in 1944, that he had killed the mastermind of the Pearl Harbor attack?
An operation that big would have had to have been *approved* by FDR (and,most likely,Churchill as well) but the planning would have been done by Generals and Admirals.I've read that FDR never tried to take credit for any of the Allied victories.If that's true that would indicate that he had at least some sense of decency and propriety,qualities that Osama completely lacks.
The military was in charge of operations then, not politicians as we see today. When RATS occupy the WH, war is good and noble.
I’ll Take Ike for 1000 Alex!