Posted on 05/16/2004 2:35:09 PM PDT by wagglebee
it was Donald Rumsfeld's fault.
About the only practical thing we could have done to ameliorate the Holocaust was to let more Jews into the country at an earlier stage. For whatever reason, FDR had a policy not to admit more than a few Jews.
I was racking my head over this very thing this morning in church. But notice the headline - "kept quiet". It would have probably sufficed for the left to have heard about the atrocities, hand ring over it, then ridicule Roosevelt for getting us in the war over it. Bush needs to let America know that after 911 he was faced with two choices - either do an end run around despotism and fanaticism and liberate 25 million poeple or coast on through to an easy second term on the hugs and well wishes of the world. 4 years or 25 million people?
Because FDR, like most of the Democrats today, was pro-communist and incredibly anti-Semetic.
Correction - the Democratic Communist spies in Roosevelt's administration advised him to turn a blind eye.
Let's get this straight.
Well I`m sure we were trying to help as fast as possible, but we had a slight hold up in this place called France.
Sounds like Hillary.
Gee. I wonder if all those French, Belgiums, Dutch, and the rest of the Europeans who shoveled the Jews on trains knew about this?
What the heck were we supposed to do that YOU people in Europe didn't?
Disinformation, lie, or sloppy reporting.
Bush's fault too.
"US 'kept quiet over Holocaust'"
And to the columnist who wrote the piece, the Brits continue to participate in the extermination effort against the Jews by funding a huge pro-"Palestinian" anti-American and generally pro-terrorist propaganda effort. That column is NAZI propaganda. The same canard (that the US is guilty of supporting Germany, and therefore as guilty as they were) is used by neo-NAZI groups worldwide.
Ths is a condensed version of a story from USA Today. There was a thread about it that was pulled because we can't even post excerpts from Gannett, let alone whole articles.
In August 1942 (when we supposedly learned of the Holocaust, per USAT), it was 8-9 months after Pearl Harbor, and we were still for the most part rearming. Perhaps we should have sent inspectors? Or gotten a promise from Hitler to turn off the ovens if we stopped the war? Zeesh.
Winning the war, which was doable, had a higher priority than stopping the Holocaust, which wasn't doable unless we won the war. Duh.
I agree with you, but there is a lot of evidence that FDR knew basically what was going on in 39-40 when the US was turning away Jews by the boatload.
I'll try to dig up a neo-NAZI link for one of their pieces to compare to this one. Theirs' to date have included mentions of Henry Ford, the Rockefellers, etc., and how America was guilty by association. ...pure garbage, and now Britons have added a piece to their archives.
The left is certainly rearing its fascist/anti-Jew head. Read Daniel's and John's prophecies, and this whole situation will look even scarier.
Yeah, I've seen the BS about how the Rockefeller's, Ford, Harriman and Prescott Bush were doing business with Hitler. However, that doesn't translate into knowledge or condonement of the Holocaust.
FDR's State Department was larded with anti-Semites.
As if over 400,000 dead American soldiers in stopping Germany and Japan weren't enough...
I really don't like these people who write this crap.
That's because they were just about all communists, take Alger Hiss for instance.
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