Franklin Delano Bush

The New York Sun ^ | 02/19/03 | The editors

[Pokey78]

President Bush, declaring that he won’t be deterred by global protests against war with Iraq, is referring reporters to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The 32nd president overcame protests from isolationists to lead Americans into World War II, Mr. Bush is quoted by the A.P. as telling reporters. “Often the message of protesters is contradicted by history,” Mr. Bush said. This sent us back to a few of FDR’s radio addresses from the years leading up to America’s entry into the war. “Let us no longer blind ourselves to the undeniable fact that the evil forces which have crushed and undermined and corrupted so many others are already within our own gates,” he said on December 29, 1940, for example. “Your government knows much about them and every day is ferreting them out. Their secret emissaries are active in our own and in neighboring countries. They seek to stir up suspicion and dissension to cause internal strife. They try to turn capital against labor, and vice versa. They try to reawaken long slumbering racist and religious enmities which should have no place in this country. They are active in every group that promotes intolerance. They exploit for their own ends our own natural abhorrence of war. These trouble-breeders have but one purpose. It is to divide our people, to divide them into hostile groups, and to destroy our unity and shatter our will to defend ourselves. There are also American citizens, many of them in high places, who unwittingly in most cases, are aiding and abetting the work of these agents. I do not charge these American citizens with being foreign agents. But I do charge them with doing exactly the kind of work that the dictators want done in the United States.”

[zarf]

Copy this sucker and mass email it. What a perfect quote for these times.

[MeekMom]

Couldn't agree more!

[bigunreal]

You forgot my favorite FDR quote; "I'll say it again, and again, and again- your boys will not be sent to fight in any foreign war." Catchy, huh?

Boy, things have sunk to a new low around here when the likes of Tony Blair and now FDR-the liberal's liberal-are sworn in as allies in the latest installment in the perpetual war for perpetual peace.

[LdSentinal]

Also, today is the 61st anniversary of FDR signing Executive Order 9066, which led to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two. However, when I was in school, I never read about that in any text book. I wonder why.

[WOSG]

nope, they went to fight an American war ... :-)

[TonyInOhio]

However, when I was in school, I never read about that in any text book. I wonder why

Because you went to school before the dawn of Political Correctness. You'll see plenty of reference to the internment program in today's textbooks.

[LdSentinal]

Actually, I was referring to FDR being responsible for the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War 2. I read about the internment in school, but never knew that FDR was responsible. I guess the lefties do not want to tarnish the liberal icon's image.

[Moby Grape]

Yes, copy this sucker and send it to every Libertarian whinner in the country....all eighteen of them!!!!!

[dead]

What the hell is a whinner?

[Moby Grape]

It is a whiner with an extra "n".....also see "Frenchmen", liberals, and Libertarians in general, and so-called "modertate" republicans when they don't get their way.