[CodeToad]

Tearing down Churchill is an attempt to also tear down conservatives.

Neville Chamberlain was a wimp and led England to war with Germany. Churchill came in and cleaned up that mess.

We had FDR get us into the war and he, too, tried a wimpy appeasement tactic with Germany.

[nickcarraway]

Neville Chamberlain was a Prime Minister for the same Conservative Party Churchill was a member of then. Churchill appeased the Soviet Union and let them take advantage of the Allies and screw them over.

[miss marmelstein]

All of these men were complex, intelligent politicians. I understand going slowly into war - they had just gone through a devastating war 25 years earlier. As Gertrude Stein’s gardener (a French vet of WWI) told her: it’s impossible to have one generation following another into war. There is always at least one generational gap between wars. He was wrong but many people believed this at the time.

[dfwgator]

We had FDR get us into the war and he, too, tried a wimpy appeasement tactic with Germany.

FDR wanted us in the war from Day One. I'm surprised after his "Arsenal of Democracy" speech that Hitler didn't declare war right there, because for all intents and purposes, it was a declaration of war on Germany.