Good evening, gentlemen and ladies of America. I speak to you tonight as a patriot, and believe me, I do love our country and honor the servicemen fighting in foreign theatres of war.
Posted on 09/13/2007 5:23:01 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Good evening, gentlemen and ladies of America. I speak to you tonight as a patriot, and believe me, I do love our country and honor the servicemen fighting in foreign theatres of war.
The plan we are currently pursuing in the theatres of Europe and the Pacific are clearly not working. The President, the generals and soldiers serving in the field may believe the mission is being accomplished, but the results show otherwise.
Our President's foolish behavior in provoking our European enemies started by his signing of the "Lend Lease" bill back in 1941. Instead of trying to negotiate with the totalitarian regimes of Europe, President Roosevelt instead chose a belligerent course of action--helping to arm the democracies of the Continent.
Of course, when we were attacked on December 7th of that year, the whole civilized world was on our side. But President Roosevelt has squandered our goodwill. Look at how many nations in Europe have fallen to the Nazis, despite our best efforts.
Who can forget that November day less than two years ago, when more than 450 American boys lost their lives in one day fighting in France? The President has never held the generals in that battle to account. Instead, he has stubbornly refused to remove our servicemen from Europe, and we continue to lose soldiers.
In February of this year, at the Kasserine Pass in Tunisia, our forces had 6,000 casualties in just ONE WEEK.
Clearly, it is time for our fighting men to come back home.
Clearly, the war is being mismanaged.
The President says we must continue the fight until victory is achieved. But he has not thought about post-war Europe and has no plan to win the peace.
Amen to that, LR.
Marlowe claims she has never seen the "Your Opinion" category on FR, either...to which this thread was posted.
RD
Too late. The damage has been done. There is already a link to this "news story" on another forum. It was listed there as an actual article. It is already in all the search engines.
I'm done here.
Why is this posted in News/Activism???
This is a fake speech and needs to be pulled or edited.
A few weeks back, someone posted a link to a video of “What if CNN were around for D-Day”. I enjoy these what-if articles/postings. Thanks.
No Harm, no foul.
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Thanks, Rabid. :)
By the way, Dewey was not the only politician Marshall saved from blowing a big secret. In 1943, the Senate's Truman Committee, which was dedicated to exposing waste, fraud, and mismanagement in the war effort, was gearing up to investigate two huge industrial complexes, in Tennessee and Washington. At least a billion dollars had gone in, but nothing was coming out. Marshall went to see Senator Truman and said, "I have instructions from the President to ask the Truman Committee to give us the benefit of the doubt on that and not to make any inspection of it. This is a personal request of the President of the United States." [Source]
Of course, those factories did indeed turn out some highly useful gadgets, and two years later, President Truman got to drop two of them on two Japanese cities.
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