@Mary:
@Imperious:
Man we lost 10,000 men just taking Wake island from Japs… i dont see the big deal with Iraq. Heck we only lost 1,100 taking and holding an entire hostile nation for years… Why didnt anybody complain about Wake Island? Oh i forgot that was a war with a Democrat as President … or 4 term “King” called FDR. And I also forgot that life didnt matter then and Democrats also controlled both Houses of Congress… NM :wink: :wink: :o
Two words: Just war
Really? We rounded up Japanese citizens and put them in concentration camps where we ruthlessly tortured them (based on we treated them worse then we do Iraqis in jail today) leaving them without meals, in their own defecation and without the rights of their citizenship.
We provoked their attack on us. We allowed it to happen. And we wanted it to happen.
The Germans never attacked one US Citizen until after we pre-emptively attacked them, just like in Iraq.
Really, I think he nailed it on the head. FDR knew we needed the war to jump start our economy, without it, we’d be a 3rd world nation. The Congress and the Media were both liberal so would have supported him if he wanted to declare on France, Brition and Belgium if he wanted too (or California for that matter.)
Just war, huh? Really. Are you sure about that? You want to tell that to the millions of American families who lost relatives in that war? How about to the billions of families world wide that lost relatives in that war. How about those neutral nations that wanted nothing to do with it that were bullied into fighting just so they could maintain their way of life?
Yea, that was such a JUST war. A war, which argueably, could have been avoided if justice was done after WWI instead of punishing the Germans - who argueably could have been considered the good guys as they attempted to help their ally quell a terrorist rebellion inside their borders.
Just my ass. It’s only listed as just with all the allied atrocities buried as deep as possible because we won and we wrote the story afterwards. If the Germans/Japanese had won your history book would be completely different. I’m sure FDR would have been described as an imperialistic tyrant.