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Open letter to Mr. Daley: Tell me, if you will, what US wartime president did the following after war broke out?

•Declared that anyone, including the press could not criticize the war or the administration on pain of jail time and made it happen for a large number of war oppponents, including a Congresssman. This effort was enforced by a new "agency" whose only duty was to root out opponents and jailing them. Certain publications were effectivedly censored or put out of business by shutting the Postal Services to them.

•Who declared that all strikes organized by unions were prohibited during the war and any union leaders that delared a strike would imprisoned? The same president effectively emprisoned a train load of union leaders, leaving them in a sidelined train in the desert of Arizona.

•What president declared that anyone who failed to support the war by buying war bonds was a traitor to be ostracized and puiblically ridiculed..

• What president began a massive draft of young men who were exposed to a new epidemic that killed thousands of them in over-crowded new camps and then made the epidemic into a pandemic world-wide by shipping the troops, many infected, to Europe and as many as 20 million people died? This same president said nary a word to the public about the epidemic although thousands were dying every day in US cities?

•What president went to the peace conference after the war and fell prey to the epidemic himself, thus losing his concentration and allowing the French to dictate the terms to the losers and helping bring about WW II?

Give up? It was Woodrow Wilson, another RAT president. For a review of all these facts, read "The Great Influenza" By John Barry, an amazingly well-documented book that will shock all readers.

Tuesday's invasion of the European continent by primarily American and British forces may go down in history as the biggest military blunder of all time. The presumptuousness of the invasion's name alone, "Operation Overlord", should have been our first clue as to the state of mind of the people who concocted this foolhardy and now obviously disastrous scheme. As the number of casualties continues to rise, with estimates approaching 50,000 dead and 240,000 wounded, many patriotic Americans are forced to ask if Mr. Roosevelt's preemptive war against the people of Germany has been worth the cost of so many innocent young lives.

For a second there I Pat Buchanan wrote this so we wouldn't help the Jews, the Brits, or the French ...