Posted on 05/07/2005 3:20:28 PM PDT by neverdem
They were not the same murderes or the Polish people would not have re-elected the communists to power a few years ago.
This was from Reuters. I want to see how the Times writes its own story about Bush's appreciation of the Yalta Conference and its aftermath. They might attribute to FDR's ill health and death two months later. I doubt that they'll mention his administration was infiltrated with commies.
Mr. Mundt: Did you draft or participate in draftng, parts of the Yalta Agreement? Mr. Hiss: I think it is accurate and not an immodest statement to say that I did to some extent, yes.
These are fiery words of earth-shaking courage and conviction.
I just heard on the radio how Bush said FDR, the dems' icon, was partly responsible for agreeing to the outcome of the Yalta Conference. The dems must be livid.
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I wish he'd use the same language about the domestic slavery FDR caused with his 'New Deal' and SS and Medicare and Medicaid and whatever other million government agencies we still have to deal with today. FDR deepened the great depression, and nearly destroyed the values of the country with his socialism.
Also, like Chavez, he tried to stack the supreme court.
There was nothing America or the UK could have done to keep the Red Army out of Eastern Europe - Yalta or no Yalta.
Remember, Japan was still fighting us hard in the Pacific - we only engaged a small number of her military in the Island hop war. Also Eastern Europe was not well liked by the Americans - most of Eastern European countries were members of the Axis powers - no American cared to risk their lives to save Hilter's buddies from the Soviets' wrath.
The only nations we really cared for in the East were Poland and the Czech part of Czechoslovakia (the Slovaks were Nazi allies). That is the historical fact without the modern revisionist spin.
I think you are at the wrong party!
These are decisive years in which the US can strengthen ties with Eastern Europe. It should be our first interest to do so. Between Rice and Bush visits there is now a greater possibility for this.
If Roosevelt had taken Gen. Patton's advice, this story wouldn't even be an issue.
Bush is so full of sh/t...what a joke.
Sorry for being a kill joy. Not my fault many forget that most of Eastern Europe was part of the Axis powers and no American was going to die to save them after WW2.
Not at all - Most of Eastern Europe was allied to the Nazis - no American was going to fight to save former Nazi allies.
"Bush is so full of sh/t...what a joke."
I know how your statement reads. I'm just wondering if that's what you meant?
Medicare and Medicaid were the courtesy of LBJ's Great Society. I guess you're a youngin. Did you go to public screwl?
Forget about whether anybody wanted to or not. The point has been publicly made by the President that we had a hand in a grave error. His admission shows courage and humility which trumps the rhetoric of Putin, who thinks the breakup of the USSR was a catastrophe.
I couldn't have said it better.
"Not at all - Most of Eastern Europe was allied to the Nazis - no American was going to fight to save former Nazi allies."
I don't think Patton was primarily interested in saving Eastern Europe per se. He wanted to kill the cancer of Soviet Communism before it had a chance to spread any further.
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