For what it's worth.
Hollywood director Michael Moore ("Bowling For Nuremberg", "Roosevelt Is A Big Fat Jewish Liar", "Ants In Their Plants of 1939") has also commented, "The SS are not terrorists...they are freedom fighters, like our Minutemen...and they will win!"
The question is, is this for real?
Has anyone been asked 15 times by the media to apologize yet?
Here's the thread I originally started.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1146313/posts
By the way, I wrote that article. :o)
http://users.adelphia.net/~thofab/index2.htm
Good job, but, uhhh, one thing. It wasn't a pre-emptive war. Hitler declared war on us in support of his ally, Japan.
What you COULD write about was before the war: We committed provocative acts against both the Japanese (cutting off oil and scrap) and the Nazis (supplying the Brits, protecting convoys, etc). "Why do they hate us? WAAAAH!"
While questions concerning what exactly Mr. Roosevelt knew about the Pearl Harbor attack prior to December 7 still swirl about the Capitol like a political tornado, new inquiries into the lack of U.S. military preparedness at the onset of the conflict are now being conducted on the Hill. A Tavistock poll released last week found that a growing minority of Americans doubts that the president had no inkling an attack was imminent, in spite of his proclamations to the contrary. Although a Japanese ambassador delivered a formal message to his administration just before the assault took place, expressing that it was "useless" to continue down any diplomatic road with the U.S., FDR continues to stand by his assertion that the event took him completely by surprise. The message "contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack", insisted Roosevelt, yet many question the veracity of this claim.
Seems many have forgotten that the US was technically at war with Japan on December 5th, 1941. Whoa! How's that pray tell.
Well, it seems that during the meetings between Churchill and FDR at Placentia Bay (as in Newfoundland, the Atlantic Charter meetings), in exchange for Britain and Holland joining the oil embargo against Japan, FDR committed US armed support to defense their territories in the Far East. If the Japanese went beyond the Isthmus of Kra, the US would fight. And, the Japanese went beyond that point on December 5th, 1941.
Two things: (a) this FDR agreement did not become known until the Joint Congressional Hearings into the Pearl Harbor, and (b) cutting off - totally - Japan's oil support can be seen as a "provocation" - another step taken pushing them to go to war.
From John Toland (recently deceased), "The comedy of errors on the sixth and seventh appears [sic December 1941] appears incredible. It only makes sense if it was a charade, and Roosevelt and the inner circle had known about the attack." And, from Robert Stinnett, "We knew."
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If one wishes to adopt the outlook of these contemporary critics of the Iraq enterprise, than World War II could have been charecterized as an endless quagmire that we could never win. How about the strategic bombing campaign of 1943 in which the deep penetration raids into Germany were called off after the catastrophic heavy bomber casualties of Schweinfurt and Regensberg? No one was whining loudly and publicly about the fact that the self defending bomber formation concept was flawed and that they failed in not having a long-range fighter escort ready at the time. We are so used to the Air Force sustaining almost no casualties in current day operations that we often forget that the 8th Air Force alone had more dead (26,000) than all the entire Marine Corps did in World War II (20,000) there were no loudly public howls of quagmire, quagmire we can't win this.
How about the night naval battle off Savo Island, Guadalcanal in August of 1942 in which the United States Navy, defeated by a Japanese navy far better versed in night fighting tactics, sailed away and left the Marines stranded on Guadalcanal? There weren't any howls of quagmire, quagmire we can't win.
How about the slaughter off the Eastern Seaboard of the United States in 1942 in which the U-boats of the German Kreigsmarine during Operation Drumbeat sunk 500 allied merchant ships in a six-month period in the greatest naval disaster in United States history? Again no howls of quagmire, quagmire we can't win.
How about the Kasserine pass in Tunisia in February of 1943? Rommel's Afrika Corps soundly defeated and routed green American troops, sending them into pell mell retreat. Again no howls of quagmire, quagmire these Germans are just too tough to beat.
How about the bloody stalemate inflicted on units of the 1st, 4th, 28th, and 9th infantry divisions by the Germans during the battle of Huertegen Forest as a prelude to the Battle of the Bulge? Or that battle's disastrous opening on the Schnee Eifel in Belgium in which intelligence failures allowed a totally surprised American Army to lose two whole infantry regiments in the opening rounds of the battle? Again no howls of quagmire, quagmire we just can't win.
Or how about the defeat inflicted on the allies during Operation Market garden in 1944 when everyone knew the Germans were already beaten? Or the horrendous losses off Okinawa? Or the bloody repulse at the Rapido River in January of 1944, or the bloody stalemate at Anzio or even the entire checkmated Italian campaign? Again no howls of quagmire, quagmire we can't win.
We often forget that World War II was no unrelieved string of victories until the final triumph. We often suffered defeat on the battlefield, sometimes catastrophic, but we prevailed because we knew that we had to.
Nothing even remotely resembling any of these historical disastrous of World War II has occurred in Iraq, but these infantile naysayers who try to pose the situation has an absolute defeat are either hopelessly naïve or determined to demoralize our soldiers and willfully undermine this effort. Despite the setbacks that have occurred in Iraq, there is nothing here they cannot be remedied to this country's favor.
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When you get back from Normandy you might want to read this! :-)