How Would FDR Have Responded If?

Question

How would FDR have responded if during WWII, The Republicans were saying that this war has gone on too long, 6,000 Americans deaths per month is too many, and the cost is too high? And on top of this, put forth a bill to cut funding for the war and or a time limit? Rmember, he's the President that put American citizens in internment camps because they were of Japaness ancestry.

Answer 1

Exactly right, my friend. How different would the course of human history have been had Congress mandated that all US forces be home before June 1, 1944?

Answer 2

Different time different place and totally different situation.

I know some like to compare Bush to FDR, War on "Terra" to WWII, however, there is no comparison. Small time people in charge of the government trying to piggyback onto the Greatest Generation.

Also, the second world war was consistently, constantly, overseen and investigated by Congress, not the rubber-stamp approval of everything by a congress given insufficient information due to so called executive privilege.

Interning American citizens during WWII was wrong then as well.

Anything else?

Answer 3

FDR sent the whole Country and that Included the chickenhawk Neocons. They converted all of the factories like a Socialist and converted to a war machine. You do know that WWII only lasted 4 years, yet America is still in a open ended war currently in Iraq. FDR also created a stable economy with the New Deal.....Bush on the other hand is a spend thrift with NO DEAL. You can't even compare the two, so don't even try. FDR was a American Patriot.

Answer 4

And that was a tragic mistake for which we apologized 50 years later. Apples and oranges. This is NOT the Second World War. We are not faced with a militant and aggressive Japan or Hitler's Nazi Germany. A lot of Republicans and American corporations, ( Including Bush's grandfather ) made a lot of money illegally selling products to Germany and like Lindbergh, would have kept out of the war out of admiration for the Third Reich.

Answer 5

But the Republicans didn't. We were smart enough to know that America never cuts tail and runs. The cost was never too high, WWII was about the world being controlled by one man, and not about freedom for the people. Whenever there is a threat to freedom, America is always the first nation to take charge, and win! Harry Truman is the one who stopped the war, Sir, he set off the atomic bombs on Japan, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. FDR was too slow, and didn't listen to Einstein's repeated letters to him to get the bombs built. Truman did. Thanks to him not more of us, and our allies died.

Answer 6

Is that the same FDR that had the support of the majority of Americans during his time of war? Good question. You must have had to listen to at least one right wing radio show to come up with that thought provoking gem.

Answer 7

I see they failed to mention Joe Kennedy Sr. appeased Hitler and FDR fired his butt as Ambassador to Great Britain. He also bought Nazi stocks too and was a notorious anti-Semite.