Oh. Nevermind.
History has tended to whitewash FDR's role in forcing millions of people into Communist subjugation, which was worse than Nazi tyranny (at least it killed a lot more people.)
Yalta effectively ratified the imperialist borders agreed to in the Stalin-Hitler Pact, with the support of FDR.
It was also after the Yalta agreement that the system of gulags really got going. We agreed to send Soviet POWs we rescued from the Nazis directly to Siberia.
This is a shameful chapter, and I am glad to see President Bush have the courage to say so. It's about time someone in a position like his did this.
Go Dubya!
Amen! I lay much of the blame for the degradation of our Nation directly at FDR's feet. His socialistic policies and heavy-handed governmental actions set the course for what we see from government today.
If George Washington had been like FDR, we would be ruled by a king today.
Good call, Dub.
The (not-so) funny thing is, how many people excuse FDR's role in creating the Cold War while slamming Reagan, Rumsfeld, etc, and America in general, for the involvement with Iraq against Iran in the 80s?
I'm very happy GWB denounced Yalta, it deserves nothing less
Mark it. G.W.'s declared war on the very foundation of the current Democrat Party. Bulldozers are preparing to break ground and the nuts are chaining themselves to the condemned building. WTG Mr. President!
Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga presented Bush with the nation's top honor, the Three-Star Order, calling him a "signal fighter of freedom and democracy
Nice to see our President respected for a change.
You can talk about everything else, Watergate and everything else. It was Hiss. Nixon was despised by the American left because what he did to Alger Hiss. He is exposed an agent.
Nixon did experience some partial redemption at Rather's Fall.
Funny how the people that claim they support this country, that claim to be patriotic freedom loving souls...tend to always object when communists, fascists, Theocratic, third world bullies and secular tyrannies are confronted. Makes any person with common sense wonder.
Putin would reply in a French newspaper, of course.
Yalta effectively ratified the imperialist borders agreed to in the Stalin-Hitler Pact, with the support of FDR.
Yes, and Roosevelt was a dying man in Feb. 1945 at Yalta, with Alger Hiss, an communist plant, as his right-hand adviser.
Oh. Nevermind.
I'm glad to hear Bush say this.
One of our weaker moments.....over Sir Winston's vehement objections at the time it might be added.
FDR....a bit of a collectivist himself was sick and tired I fear and not using good judgement.
And Hiss (and others) was spoonfeeding him.
Good one. However, it is also worth noting the Munich pact by Britain and France, that delivered Checkoslovakia to Hitler and actually started the World War II.
Yes, President Bush has done well indeed. And his forthright denunciation of Yalta will stand him well in history books.
In contrast, President Clinton, like Mr. Chamberlain, will be forever associated with the appeasement of dictators.
I can only imagine what Senator Kerry's embarrassing speech would have been had he been elected, but I believe it would have contained nothing but praise for Stalin, for FDR, and for Yalta.
Unless, of course, the tyrants are on our side like in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Pakistan, Egypt, etc., etc.
I am grateful to President Bush for saying this out loud and in public. Those harmed by the stupidity of FDR needed that as an apology. It is a wonder that they can stand us after what they were put through by one stupid, selfish socialist politician and his communist advisor.
This should be taught to every child in history classes. I hope that this statement will force the issue into history books instead of the cover over that we have had courtesy of media for all these years.
BTTT!
"Second-guessing Franklin D. Roosevelt, .."
SECOND GUESSING!!!!?????
Churchill knew what a b@st@rd Stalin was.
Roosevelt just liked "Uncle" Joe. And why not? He had people like Alger Hiss, born-again Commies advisiing him and he was stupid enough to believe them. Stalin was a sadistic megalomaniacal homicidal maniac. He probably butchered more people per unit of time than Hitler ever did.
Roosevelt gave away the shop. WW2 officially started to keep Poland free and what did that nut job Democratic socialist do? He turned it over to Stalin. His policies led to permitting the Russians to capture Berlin and the mass rape of thousands of innocent German civilian women. His policies led to handing over to Stalin's butchers Ukrainian P.O.W.s and even Russian P.O.W.s who were then promptly murdered by that nutjob and his lieutenants.
FDR was one of the most overrated of Presidents - a defective individual who tried unsuccessfully to achieve the glory of his illustrious relative Teddy Roosevelt.
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About time the light of Truth was directed upon the evil perpetrated on this nation and upon the world at large by that evil bastard, [FDR] whose every advisor and aide seems to have been either an active Rudolph-Hess-style Soviet agent and/or to have been in and/or of the Communist Party of America!
[The self-annointing, self-appointing and self-perpetuating descendents of whose bastard offspring still own operate and control all of "our" feral gummint's awful machinery, still make up Foggy Bottom's evil Brahmanas and still clone the mindless morons who comprise our so-called "foreign service." And are most visibly represented among US in such other un-and-anti-American terroristic gangs as the ACLU, ABA, NEA, AARP et al]
Hmmmmmm.....Was he talking about FDR's bungling of Eastern Europe, or Social Security...
Much like Hillary!ous likes to compare herself to Eleanor Roosevelt, the darling of the Pink Left, Bush is fairly clearly renouncing the communist past of both the USSR, and the US. (Hopkins, Hiss, FDR....)
I' glad the President brought this up: it needed to be said.
In fact, FDR was advised by communists, communist sympathizers and even a "mole" working for the Soviets.