Why is it that Bush...?

Question

Why is it that Bush is considered evil because terrorists are car-bombing a few thousand civilians, yet FDR is hero for deliberately bombing 250,000 civilians?

Answer 1

why are you taking up for him??? he doesn't care what you think!!

Answer 2

Only 1 person brought up oil so far. I am dissappointed.

Americans placing car bombs is classic. Tell that to all the soldiers in my unit that were injured by VBIEDs.

These same people will be screaming if we had another terrorist attack in the US. Were these people up in arms when we were bombing Yugoslavia back into the stone age? Was Clinton in Haiti because of a vital national interest? Do civilian lives in Haiti and Yugoslavia mean less than Iraqi civilians? What about all the people in Somalia he had to kill? Clinton was fine with that. We retreated from Somalia. Good job, look where we are now in Somalia.

It is called a double-standard. That is your answer. More sources is great but a selective memory works better for some I guess.

Answer 3

#1 if from what I understand you are talking about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that wasn't FDR, but HST that did that.

#2 I don't think people think he is really evil, just totally misguided because he seems determined to send even more troops into a mess that he is trying to clean up. A mess that is made worse by our dependency on foreign oil. If there weren't oil fields in the areas in question odds are that there would be little to no involvement of the US.

Answer 4

Back then FDR was facing a world war, and his action isn't plausible either, but now because our presence in a nation that got nothing to do with the World Trade Center attack. The excuse for this attacked to Iraq was they, allegedly, had weapons for massive destruction, the ones we never found. What we had to do is done, the dictator is out and judged and executed by the new government of Iraq, so is time now to let them make their own path and stop wasting the blood of our soldiers in a land so far away, a land that isn't our country.

Answer 5

Wait a minute here, car bombing deaths should be treated as non-events because they occur on a daily basis and not all at once?

FDR, (and the press), didn't have the ability to show mass burials, and the horrors of war. Now we do. Dealing with the reality of war is a duty of every citizen.

Answer 6

I think the argument surrounding Bush goes to his actions, decision making processes and (li)abilities. The events in the world, not just in Iraq, which are due to the failed, lie based Bush/Cheney policies, aren't comparable to WWII bombing targets.

When they've already fooled you (more than) twice, why search for reasons to defend them? Turn off Fox and turn on LinkTV, watch or listen to DemocracyNow! with Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. There are independent media sites, try increasing your sources for information.

Answer 7

FDR did not have to fight a political system aligned with a liberal based media were one party values getting back in power more than the future of the country. We have been conditioned now for sound bite politics, short-term attention span.

Answer 8

Excellent question, Dylan. I guess because FDR was fighting the "good war."

Answer 9

because if ur nice and smile with pple as bush is and try to protect them they treat u like an idiot its mob psychology but osama just wakes up and blows up pple and hes agood guy hes fighting for his rights as inthe days of moses in the bible humans are ungrateful

Answer 10

I have many friends in Iraq and let me tell you this, no one is bombing any cars but American soldiers put a remote control bomb in any car when they arrive to the check point, so they can create a civil war there ( and that's the only way for them to win this war )

Answer 11

Could it be those civilians were supporting and build the war materials to kill us. I think with a little searching you could find a better analogy.