Pro-War GOP Senators Refusing to be Interviewed about Iraq

MSNBC's David Shuster, September 24, 2007

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[insultant]

patsagainstrats: For God's sake man..they vote to send our brave men and women to war (and I was one) and they won't even stand up to the media? You chicken hawks really are deluded. Nearly 80% of the American population is against you and most of the world. We've all had it with the neocon fascists. BTW, I'm a true conservative but you probably don't know the difference.

[2Halifaxion2]

A distraction that beat out half of the fascists in the iowa straw poll. You fucking inbred, you have no idea what the consequences of a debate on torture in this country really consist of. Do yourself a favor, look up Project Paperclip, Operation Northwoods, Operation Mockingbird, MK ULTRA, General Smedley Butler, and fucking google 9/11. Ron Paul has more money that Romney, because Rom is in so much debt...a preview of fiscal policy? Yessss

[CaLifOrniALARoCks]

Neither did they display the "failure" or "Religous Conflict" caused by the War destroying the Iraq-Iran Border. So i would not say any News Station leans one-way or another, besides FOX NEWS, of cource!

[cupera1]

News shows are refusing to tell about the success in Iraq, so no senators on TV to tell about the success of the surge and destruction of AQ/terrorist in Iraq

[thucy2]

cupera: This last comment is so off the wall it's obvious we come from different worlds. I don't know any Dems who believe "that you can not wipe your ass without gov. help" nor any that "want to rule the world." I doubt you do either.

You've been listening to the right wing echo chamber too long. Get out, meet some people different from yourself, read some books by genuine historians--not ideologues--and your attitude will change.

Best wishes to you and your grandfather.

[cupera1]

It's just the ones that believe that you can not wipe your ass with out government help and want to rule the world because they can do it better. I did not leave the Dems they left me.

[thucy2]

cupera:this is from Winston Churchill: "I have formed the very highest regard and admiration for the President.His breadth of view, resolution, and his loyalty to the cause [of defeating Hitler] are beyond all praise."

Was there antiSemitism in the gov. during FDR's time in office? Yes. As there was throughout American society. Was FDR perfect? No. But he was far and away the best man for the job at that time, and one of the three best presidents (along with Lincoln and Washington) ever.

[thucy2]

Also from Wikopedia: "President Roosevelt did not hesitate to name Americans of German ancestry to top war jobs, including General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Admiral Chester Nimitz, and General Carl Spaatz.... German Americans who were born overseas were the subject of some suspicion and discrimination during the war, although prejudice and sheer numbers meant they suffered less than Japanese-Americans."

[thucy2]

cupera you obviously have some grudge against FDR. Probably it's because he was a liberal Democrat, and in the right wing echo chamber liberal Democrats are to blame for everything wrong with the world. I'm not saying FDR was perfect, but when it came to confronting the Nazis he was the most far-seeing statesman on the American scene. Winston Churchill said as much time and again.

You really should read some more history. Life is more complicated than "Dems always evil, Repubs always good."

[thucy2]

I googled it and found nothing. I did find an entry in Wikopedia saying that of all the tens of millions of German-Americans in the US in 1941`-1945, 11,000 were interned during the war. The vast majority were NOT American citizens, and were among the 114,000Germans who'd come to the country since 1931.

I assume your reference to "bomb the rails and roads" is to Auschwitz. That's a whole other topic. Read Martin Gilbert's "Auschwitz and the Allies" for the complete answer.

[thucy2]

As I said cupera, the only argument you've got to support your claim that "all" pro-Hitler voices in the US during FDR's time were within the administration is to repeat "Joe Kennedy Joe Kennedy Joe Kennedy." Now you're not even spelling it right.

Here's a little fact for you. When FDR proposed Lend-Lease to provide a life-line to Britain, the vote in the House was 135 in favor, 24 against. ALL 24 votes against were Republicans. Were they also in the FDR administration?

[cupera1]

google german interment camps in Maine

Then why did FDR allow the camps to run at full capacity and NOT bomb the rail and roads to them.