Posted on 05/22/2005 3:48:42 PM PDT by CHARLITE
I lived through the reign of Democrat icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. His reign lasted from 1932 to 1994 when Republicans finally succeeded in wresting Congress from FDR's legacy. A legacy that worked for a uneducated, uninformed cabal of voters who blamed a Republican president for a flameout of the business cycle in 1929 as if no Democrats were involved in that debacle. History will not be kind to FDR. His Democrat apologists in the MSM will be dead, and the bare facts will remain.
FDR's presidency was an economic disaster. He got credit for pulling the country out of a depression, when in reality he did no such thing. He did everything wrong when addressing the depression. He raised taxes, interest rates and trade tariffs and enacted more anti-business laws than even a anarchist wouldn't dare to dream of today. The War saved his bacon because after 10 years of his policies, the country entered WW II with a 17% unemployment rate. A history that the MSM and their liberal academe can't protect forever.
FDR will turn out to be the "dupe" of the world's communist, socialist, collectivist 20th. Century revolutionists. As the Phoenix Project revealed in 1994, most of FDR's closest advisors in the government turned out to have been spies for the Russian government. The USSR's secret communications codes were broken during the war but not disclosed to the public until 1994. That disclosure was met by universal silence from the MSM. History won't be so tolerant or blinded, FDR's consuls caused the disaster at Yalta, from which America will never recover. Yes Russian spies dictated Roosevelt's tragic mistakes and people died and were enslaved.
However, never in the history of our Republic has it been necessary for the President of the United States to apologize for the actions of a previous president for enslaving so many millions of people for so long. Apologize for having turned our back on the morality America champions. The morality that FDR so carelessly disregarded in Yalta with the assistance of his many Russian spies who acted as his trusted advisors. But George W. Bush, like the man he is, has bitten the bullet and made that apology. Phyllis Schlafy has documented that apology and the reasons it was made as follows:
Bush Apologizes for FDR’s Sellout at Yalta
by Phyllis Schlafly
Thank you, President Bush, for correcting history and making a long overdue apology for one of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tragic mistakes. Speaking in Latvia on May 7, Bush repudiated “the agreement at Yalta” by which powerful governments negotiated away the freedom of small nations.
Bush accurately blamed Yalta for “the captivity of millions in Central and Eastern Europe” and said it “will be remembered as one of the greatest wrongs of history.” This admission has been 50 years coming, and Bush’s words assure that “the legacy of Yalta was finally buried, once and for all.”
It was at Yalta, a filthy Russian port on the Black Sea, where our dying President in February 1945 made a secret agreement with Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin to surrender millions of people to Communist oppression behind what Churchill a year later labeled the Iron Curtain. No treaty was submitted to the U.S. Senate. Indeed, the record of what went on at Yalta was not released until 10 years later.
The Soviets demanded, and Roosevelt acquiesced, that the conference be held on Soviet soil (where they could plant listening devices). Churchill said, “If we had spent 10 years on research we could not have found a worse place in the world than Yalta....It is good for typhus and deadly lice which thrive in those parts.” Roosevelt came home from Yalta and made a false report to Congress. Calling it “a personal report to you and to the people of the country,” he asserted, “This conference concerned itself only with the European war and with the political problems of Europe, and not with the Pacific war.” Roosevelt’s Concessions
Here is a list of the European and Asian concessions he made to Stalin, which were confirmed by the Yalta documents released on March 16, 1955:
• Poland was turned over to the Soviet Union. The United States and Britain agreed to recognize Communist stooges as the new Polish government and to withdraw recognition from the legitimate anti-Communist government of Mikolajczyk.
• Germany was to be dismembered, its “national wealth” removed within two years, and several million Germans were to be sent to the Soviet Union to work as slave laborers. The record quotes Roosevelt as saying, “I hope Marshal Stalin would again propose a toast to the execution of 50,000 officers of the German army.” • All Russian citizens who had fled to Germany from communism were to be forcibly returned to the Soviet Union (i.e., the gulag).
• The Soviet Union was allowed to keep control of Outer Mongolia, which the Soviets had seized from China. The southern part of Sakhalin and all the adjacent islands were given outright to the Soviets.
• The Kurile Islands were given outright to the Soviets, and Port Arthur was given to the Soviets for use as a naval base. The Soviets were given effective control of the commercial port of Dairen, the Chinese-Eastern Railroad and the South-Manchurian Railroad, using the subterfuge of assuring that the Soviet Union’s “preeminent” interests would be “safeguarded.”
• The Soviet Union was given three votes in the United Nations, while all other nations got only one.
Roosevelt’s defenders have tried to claim that his concessions were necessary to bribe Stalin to enter the war against Japan. The Yalta papers prove that was false: Three-and-a-half months before the Yalta meeting, Ambassador Averell Harriman had relayed to Roosevelt a “full agreement from Stalin not only to participate in the Pacific war, but to enter the war with full effort.”
Russia wasn’t needed in the Pacific war, and letting Russia in simply opened the way for a Communist empire in China and North Korea. This set the stage for the Korean War in the 1950s and for the son of the original North Korean Communist dictator to threaten us with nuclear weapons today.
While Republicans and honest writers such as David Lawrence and John T. Flynn denounced the Yalta betrayal, the pro-Roosevelt media praised it. But truth finally overtakes lies and cover-ups. Bush set the record straight when he repudiated Yalta as part of the “unjust tradition” of Munich and the Hitler-Stalin pact that carved up Europe and left millions in oppression.
History will not be kind to him. Facts are facts and they have consequences. History will separate the wheat from the chaff.
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The only glitch I found on a cursory reading was Phoenix Project The Phoenix Project was an assination plot hatched by the CIA in the 1960's. I believe the project the author wanted was Venona.
A fairly long discussion of the Venona Project is found in "Treason" by Ann Coulter which prompted me to get "Venona" by Haynes and Klehr from the library...a 3 week wait to get it. Aside from a scholarly "dryness", the book was worthwhile.
VENONA: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America By John Earl Hatnes and Harvey Klebr Yale University Press
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