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To: RoosterRedux
Just like Obama, he harassed and terrorized his own citizens if they didn't support him ...

How? With that umbrella of his?

And he had to be literally pried away from No 10 Downing.

Everything looks so much clearer with hindsight. But at the time it wasn't clear what would happen or how bad the situation was. Did Chamberlain try to hang on? Sure. But the idea that Churchill would be the great wartime leader wasn't clear to everyone at the time.

30 posted on 03/11/2014 5:17:22 PM PDT by x
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To: x
Newt Gringrich recommended a book which clears the matter up...Troublesome Young Men.

Chamberlain would have destroyed England. England and the Western World dodged a bullet when Chamberlain was at last removed.

Read some history...and keep reading. There is more there than you and I can imagine.

If you defend Chamberlain...you don't know Chamberlain. He's a skunk.

31 posted on 03/11/2014 5:32:21 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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To: x
But at the time it wasn't clear what would happen or how bad the situation was.

Baloney.

Many knew exactly how bad the situation was...but Chamberlain controlled the media (sound familiar?)...so the public was kept in the dark until finally the SHTF.

32 posted on 03/11/2014 5:36:13 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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But the idea that Churchill would be the great wartime leader wasn't clear to everyone at the time.

Again, bullsh!t.

Read all the speeches at the time. See who emerges as the most popular figure in the UK. It wasn't Eden (another worm) or even Duff Cooper (a diamond in the rough)...it was Churchill.

Churchill awakened England to the threat...and mobilized it against a force that would have ended it.

33 posted on 03/11/2014 5:39:51 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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Oops, though I said Duff Cooper...I meant Leo Amery.

Sorry bout that.

Read "Troublesome Young Men" and then read the bibliographical sources.

And read all the speeches before the Commons. Amazing stuff.

35 posted on 03/11/2014 6:36:49 PM PDT by RoosterRedux (The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing -- Socrates)
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