Posted on 05/10/2005 6:36:02 PM PDT by thelastvirgil
Here's the link to an inevitable, IMO, attack on President Bush's Yalta comments from an insignificant wannabe "journalist" seeking some modicum of relevance in a world that has left him behind:
http://www.lmtribune.com/05102005/opinions/254342.php
Your link is no good, and you should post the original title.
the link doesn't work.
And the story is .....
Well, doggone it! The title of the little gem is "President left behind in high school history class". It is textbook leftist drivel. I do not know how to make the link work, but have double-checked the url. Any techie help would be appreciated.
It is a pay-per-view site and bugmenot.com does not have a login/password for it.
Would it be FR legal for me to cc&p the article, here?
Looks like you need to be a subscriber.
If it is not on the prohibited list like Washington Post and LA Times, then it would be fine. Let me check, I forgot FR's url listing the proscribed sites. Give me a few minutes to check.
I have it copied. If it isn't on the proscribed list, I'll paste it up. If it is, can I post excerpts?
DANG, I can't find the list. If I remember correctly, it excerpts automatically when you first post a thread if the origin is from the "Excerpted List". I don't recall it being on the list, so go ahead and post the whole article. If there's a problem, the Mods can excerpt.
Thanks. Here it is in all it's glory:
When you sleep through history class, do yourself a favor.
Sit quietly in the back of the room and let other people raise their hands.
President Bush flunked high school history May 8 when he blamed the Cold War on FDR.
Here's the Bush version of reality.
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill went to the Yalta Conference in 1945 and gave half of Europe to the Soviet Union in a cowardly act of appeasement. This caused untold misery for the people of Eastern Europe until Ronald Reagan came along and vanquished the evildoers.
If Franklin Roosevelt and his successor, Harry Truman, had any guts, they would have listened to Gen. George Patton and gone after Russia after polishing off Germany and Japan.
Bush called the division of Europe "one of the greatest wrongs in history." But don't worry. He's not going to be squeamish about going to war.
"We will not repeat the mistakes of other generations, appeasing or excusing tyranny, and sacrificing freedom in the vain pursuit of stability," he says.
America appeased and excused tyranny? America sacrified freedom in the vain pursuit of stability? Tell that to the 292,000 men who never came home.
George Bush Sr. fought in World War II. He might want to remind his son of a couple of facts.
During the Yalta Conference, the United States was still at war with Japan. The Soviet Union had more than 2 million soldiers in Europe. Two continents were in smoking ruins.
The Soviet Union might well have taken over all of Europe had FDR decided to expand the war.
Thank God men like Roosevelt and Truman shaped America in the precarious post-war era instead of George W. Bush. The Bush Doctrine of street thug diplomacy would have ignited World War III several times over.
Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Winston Churchill were among the greatest leaders of the 20th century. By comparison, George W. Bush is just a little boy flopping around in their shoes. -- T.H.
YOWZER, that really is a BARF ALERT! Grrrrr! The libs are really angry about the 250,000 Geogians that came out to see him in Tblisi Square. And this crap that they write is pure drivel....
That is total BS! The problems are that President Bush attacked FDR, the dem's political god, and that what President Bush said was true and telling the truth to the dems is like pouring water on a witch.
Exacly, and this is just one example of Henderson's bile, hatred, and stupidity. I read him everyday; always get agitated, but this one really got my blood boiling. I reckon his readership -- mostly northwestern tree-huggers -- must love him, based on the letters to the editor.
History Channel just ran a 2 part 4 hour show on FDR. A sympathtic biographer noted the (now) historical consensus that FDR was of seriously diminished mental capacity at the conference. Stalin walked over everyone there as a result of the confused Allied communications. Churchill was livid, but was too weak militarily to posture alone.
This was all due to the very, very severe medical problems which FDR had concealed from the public during the election. FDR also refused to take Truman or aides who could have helped in negotiations to save a good portion of the "free" world. FDR serially underestimated Stalin and the evil he represented. He ignored advice from Churchill and many others to negotiate more forcefully. His arrogance cost many people their freedom and many others, their lives.
YALTA has ALWAYS been considered a HUGE FDR screw-up ALWAYS.
The fact that the looney left NOW all of a sudden object to the OBVIOUS and KNOWN FDR falure JUST BECAUSE GWBush pointed it out is just hysterically funny.
I think it is just plain funny that this comes on the heals of a big FDR ga ga documentary push by the history channels. I bet these loonies were shocked shocked shocked I say that liberachi was a poofta.
This guy says that Bush blamed the Cold War on Roosevelt. In fact, he did not. He blamed it on the division at Yalta. No mention of Roosevelt. This guy apparently attributes the division at Yalta to Roosevelt. But Bush did not.
So who is it who's blaming Roosevelt? I'd say it's the writer, not Bush.
Arrogance is what any socialist is all about.
My favorite is this little gem. Here we have the wonderfully intelligent author equating the liberation of Europe with the subsequent divison of Europe by the Allies and the Soviet Union. You see, those two distinct acts are the same!
Oh. And for a grand finale the degenerate holds up the deaths of American soldiers as moral proof as to the veracity of his conclusion.
Liberals are a bunch of sick, twisted freaks.
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