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Skriven 2009-03-04 17:01:07 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 9901 av Richard Webb (1:116/901.0)
Ärende: LETS ALL PLAY FAIR!!
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"Richard Webb -> Ross Cassell" <1:116/901> wrote in news:27045
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 RC>> Nope, the USA would have entered the European portion of the
 RC>> conflict alot sooner and would have been standing with Britain
alot
 RC>> sooner to perhaps avoid the evacuation of Dunkirk in addition to
the
 RC>> battle of Britain itself. By the time 12/07/1941 would have rolled
 RC>> around, the Japanese would not have dared attack a country already
 RC>> on a war footing.

 RW> NOt sure if the republicans would have, or wouldn't, but had we done
as
 RW> you describe above the attack might not have
 RW> happened.  Also, as you note, maybe we wouldn't have had to
 RW> use a nuke in anger.

 RW> YEt fdr knew the mood of the people who elected him.  THese
 RW> were the same folks who were still recovering from a number
 RW> of events.  THe dust bowl years; the great depression, etc.
 RW> We're a full generation past ww 1 and folks still recall
 RW> that.  The mood of the average American was to work at
 RW> getting on and staying on a course of prosperity, and
 RW> foreign military adventures weren't quite his idea of the
 RW> thing to do.

The thing is, conservatives in the couple years leading up to Pearl
Harbor were VERY leery about European wars, but many of them did like
FDR letting them sell lots of arms and supplies to Britain.
Rearming the US was quite profitable, too.

Back then, the unofficial/official "leader" of the conservatives was a
guy on the radio, Father Coughlin.
(Sound familiar?) <G>

Some conservatives like Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh, in addition to
Father Coughlin, were openly pro-Nazi Germany.

Other conservatives, in business, did business with Nazi Germany.
IBM, Ford, and George Bush's grandfather, Prescott Bush.

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