And You Thought WWII Was Over? (Conason on Bush slam of FDR)

[Nancy Waterman]

http://www.observer.com/pages/conason.asp

Historical falsification, when spoken by the President of the United States to slander one of his greatest predecessors, should not go unanswered. In a display of the extremist ideology that drives politics and policy in his administration, George W. Bush chose a platform in Latvia to repeat an old right-wing slur against Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Mr. Bush said that the 1945 Yalta conference where Roosevelt met with Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to plan the end of the Second World War "followed in the unjust tradition of Munich and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact."

For the President to utter such cheap remarks about Roosevelt (and Churchill, whom he ridiculously imagines to be his model) was unfortunate. For him to utter those remarks on foreign soil, during ceremonies commemorating the end of the war fought so bravely by Roosevelt and Churchill, was unforgivable.

[blogbear]

1. W is so feeble minded that he needs help to spell FDR..

[driver8]

3. But don't forget, Shrubya is a "war time President"...

and a big time imbecile. Just when you think you cannot hate this man any more than you do, he does something to prove you wrong.

What do people find appealing about this idiot?? He is a freakin' embarrassment every time he opens his fat mouth.

[blogbear]

4. Yeah..but I never get to the hate stage or past the laughing stage..

Have you read all the things he's said? Do you realize how close the mentalities of W and Dan Quayle are alike? Then to add the people who agree with and vote for people like them? Sorry but I can't even get to the hate stage or quit laughing..

[driver8]

7. I wish I could laugh at him...but he is ruining this country.

There will not be anything left of our country when he is finished. He and his buddies are slowly taking everything they can.

Yeah, some of the things he says are hilarious...but his actions are self serving and destructive. I feel nothing towards the shrub but extreme hatred.

[blogbear]

8. I understand and am trying to contain hostilities..I do believe that

there are not only good people here but good forces at work who are on a daily basis staying focused on the state of the state and the issues we are concerned (rightfully) over..We do have each other, the country has had its difficult times before, and I just as you am looking foward to better days and able leadership in the future..It will happen..

[driver8]

9. blogbear -- thank you for those encouraging words...

...always nice to hear.

[Nancy Waterman]

2. Conason really slams Bush in this one

Having rather easily overthrown the weak, backward regimes of Saddam Hussein and the Taliban, he now seems to regard himself as superior to men who faced enemies possessing enormous military and industrial power. Having acted on entirely wrong information about Iraq, despite all the advanced technology at his disposal, he now second-guesses the decisions of leaders who had to rely on far less sophisticated intelligence sources.

Perhaps he believes his own sycophantic publicity. For in voicing his ugly and erroneous criticism of justly venerated men, he only appears to have overestimated himself.

Lovely!

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Good, a Reagan quote to use against the freepers

"Let me state emphatically, we reject any interpretation of the Yalta agreement that suggests American consent for the division of Europe into spheres of influence," said the late President in August 1984. "On the contrary, we see that agreement as a pledge by the three great powers to restore full independence, and to allow free and democratic elections in all countries liberated from the Nazis after World War II."

[yellowcanine]

6. Think of the RW outrage if Clinton had said this...We would be hearing all

kinds of screeching about criticizing the U.S. on forengn soil.

[agincourt]

10. a remark like this is dead cold impeccable evidence

that he is a complete tool of RW propaganda think tanks, and is incapable of any original thought. He simply does not have the basic decency and the brain power to be president. What next? Demolish the Lincoln memorial, and erect one for Jefferson Davis and Milliard Fillmore?