Woodrow Wilson's War Message

Highlighting Woodrow Wilson's War message to congress on April 2, 1917

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[clewison]

This war, like most, was a lie. He gave us the the ruinous Fed Reserve & IRS.

[CPAirsoft100]

Wilson was a racist

[brando21az]

@lexxxaayy me too haha

[lexxxaayy]

this helped me with my history homework :) haha

[12ealDeal]

This was obviously a school project, right?

Either way, I've been looking for the full video of Woodrow Wilson actually delivering the War Message. Anyone know where it is?

[hulkyone]

On foreign policy, Wilson was quite weak. The closest the troops got to Berlin was eastern France and the League of Nations had no Security Council. He also foolishly supported corrupt Mexican President Venustiano Carranza when he should've supported Villa and Zapata, two men who demonstrated that they cared for freedom, democracy and equal economic opportunity in Mexico.

[dcorton]

@RichardElden The Secretary of State at the time, William Jennings Bryan even said, "A ship carrying contraband should not rely on passengers to protect her from attack. It would be like putting women and children in front of an army." The majority of newspapers were on the side of the war propaganda. The fact that the Germans knew there were weapons meant that Americans (most likely in our "honest" government) knew there were weapons. Did the passengers? No, but they were warned of the dangers.

[dcorton]

@clewison Don't forget he also brought us Prohibition, the Federal Trade Commission and increased spending from under 3% of GDP to almost 20%! Sometimes I'm amazed that someone that couldn't control their temper didn't lynch the guy before his term ended. His presidency was a huge jump forward from a decently free country to the joke we are in today.

[dcorton]

@RichardElden Please back up your opinion with a reasonable explanation. It was "a British ship flying a British flag." It had over 4,000,000 rifle cartridges and 1,250 cases of shrapnel shells that were built by American warmongers to kill Germans. Plus the passengers were told the dangers of traveling. From our conversation it seems either you are not familiar with the facts, or you love war for war's sake and anyone else who does enough to get us in one is a "hero" to you. That's bizarre.

[dcorton]

@RichardElden Thanks for recognizing that Stalin had more right to enter WWI than we did. We had been shipping armaments to the Allies for years before we finally declared war in 1917. The Mexico issue started; because we were supplying so many of the arms to the Allies. If I were in a war, I would want to stop the flow of arms to my enemy by cutting it off at the source as well. The sinking of ships was normal retaliation when they had arms aboard. The Lusitania did. Check your history.

[dcorton]

@RichardElden And entering a war makes someone a hero? So Stalin entering WWII makes him a hero? Maybe you don't agree; so I need you to qualify your statements with more information besides "he entered World War I." That doesn't make much sense to anyone. If you think he saved people from dieing, OK, but back it up. Do you know how many Americans died in WWI?