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Thanks for posting this. I agree that leftists fawn over people (socialists, Leftists) whose lives contradict the the goals of our founders. My liberal sister's favorite kind of person would be someone from a "noble" background who became a revolutionary.

We DID have much the same Liberal Media that exists today during the War years. However, Hitler had invaded the “Workers’ Paradise” of their beloved Stalin five months before Pearl Harbor. So the Left was not going to do anything to sabotage any effort we might make to defeat Stalin’s enemy, Hitler.

Interesting.

I still don't understand why the Media let 30,000 Americans get killed in in 2 + years in Korea, fighting Communists, under Truman.

The MSM thinks Bush is a monster for allowing making Americans die in Iraq.

More Americans died in the first one month in Truman's Korean War than have died in 44 months of "Bush's" Iraq War.

3,000 deaths seems to be magic indicator that we should cut-and-run. At that rate we should have been out of Korea in 35 days.

Syr:"I still don't understand why the Media let 30,000 Americans get killed in in 2 + years in Korea, fighting Communists, under Truman."

I am not 100% certain, but I believe it had to do with what the Democratic Party was going through at the time. "GI Generation" Democrats like JFK were taking the Democratic Party to the Center and being very Anti-Communist. After their loss in 1946, the Pro-Communist Democrats of the New Deal era had to give way. Remember that Joe McCarthy's right hand man was Robert F Kennedy. Kathleen Kennedy-Townsend, RFK's daughter, has old Senator Joe as her godfather.

The 1950 Democratic Senatorial Primary between George Smathers and Claude Pepper is a good example. It is disgusting that here at FSU in Tallahassee they have a building built to Claude Pepper, the swine who said that anyone who opposed Joseph Stalin was Fascist. George Smathers, a GI Generation Democrat, threw the Pro-Stalin things Pepper had said in his face and won his Senate seat. Modern Liberals make Pepper into a poor martyr, of course. Smathers and Democrats like him ran the Party from the late 1940s until the late 1960s when the Marxist bastards came back. George Smathers declined to run again in 1968 and the Republican beat the Marxist Democrat that year.

So, in answer to your query about the Korean War, the Democratic Party was doing its utmost to prove that it was as Anti-Communist as the Republican Party. To do otherwise in the 1950s was electoral disaster. The GOP did win Congress and the Presidency in 1952, so you can know that the Democrats were on their best behavior!