[Zack Nguyen]

The rest of this excellent article, including a detailed description of exactly how the Soviet NKVD (later KGB) pulled off the bugging of Roosevelt, can be found by clicking on the link.

I'd like to include one vignette that I think sums up the almost criminal incompetence of Roosevelt and his gang in dealing with the Soviet Union:

Having spared FDR the horror of riding one mile each day through the Persian streets, having appropriated his space and nullified his Secret Service, Uncle Joe drew him into a warm embrace. He told him that after the war he would grant freedom of religion, private ownership, and greater democracy in the Soviet Union, the name of which he would change back to Russia. Roosevelt, delighted with these unbelievable concessions, let Joe know that he could draw the postwar borders of Poland and reassume control of the Baltic republics with perhaps “some expression of the will of the people, perhaps not immediately after their re-occupation by Soviet forces, but some day.” Uncle Joe’s word—Stalin said he “understood”—was good enough for FDR.

That says it all. One of the more annoying characteristics of many leftists is that they assume they are so smart, so glib, so gifted at repartee, so endowed with good intentions that no one could possibly resist their charm and eloquence. Therefore they cannot possibly fail. Though this can and has happened with conservative politicians, I see it most often exhibited amongst the left. You saw it with FDR, LBJ, Clinton and Kerry.

The more I read about our national response to Communism in the 1930's and 1940's, the more amazed I am that we were blessed with victory.

[NetValue]

I seem to recall the allegation that Harry Hopkins, Roosevelt's most trusted advisor, was a Russian "fellow traveler" .

[leadpencil1]

spy ping

[Numbers Guy]

With Hiss and White and others at FDR's side, Stalin probably didn't need wiretaps.

[Cicero]

A lot of people in the 1930s thought that Marxism was a science, and that it marked the inevitable wave of the future. W. H. Auden wrote some brilliant poems to this effect during his Communist phase.

There is good reason to believe that Roosevelt admired the Communist system from much earlier, and that the alliance between the USSR and the US during the Second World War was, in his eyes, much more than a marriage of convenience.

FDR was a malign influence on our country as well as on Europe.

[Common Tator]

The primary problem was no one knew if the atomic bomb would work. We had carpte bombed Tokyo and other cities civilian areas killing millions of Japanese civilians and they still would not surrender.

FDR had been told we would have a million Americans killed when we invaded Japan. Japan like the Muslims believed that if you died killing an American you went to heaven and your family did also.

FDR and Truman after him were trying to get Stalin to help us defeat the Japansese. FDR and Truman figured that if we lost a half million and Russia lost a half million that was better than us losing a million.

HST and FDR were trading eastern Europe for a half million American lives.

Today we would rather Americans die than have a Iraqi get shamed. To many an American life is not worth a snail darter fish.

[ikka]

They should dig up FDR's rotten corpse and feed it to the vultures. He does NOT deserve any place of honor in our country.

[Bommer]

Old Gumlegs (as W.C. Fields referred to him) was a socalist, so he saw no problem with a Communist. It was the next stage up! FDR ranks as one of the worst Presidents in history IMHO. Made the Great Depression worse, knew about the Pearl Harbor attack in advance and sold out his country to the f-ing Russians and socialism.

[nightdriver]

I remember hearing one of the men in the accompanying corps at the Yalta conference telling about how Stalin toasted FDR as a fool - RIGHT TO HIS FACE! And ol' Roosevelt just flashed that crooked toothy grin and with that characteristic flip of his head raised his glass as though he had been honored.

FDR did untold damage to the entire free world. No wonder the democRATs revere him so much.

[newsgatherer]

bump for monday

[philman_36]

One of the more annoying characteristics of many leftists is that they assume they are so smart, so glib, so gifted at repartee, so endowed with good intentions that no one could possibly resist their charm and eloquence. Therefore they cannot possibly fail.
Don't just restrict that to the left. That goes for far too many on the right as well!

[dennisw]

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