History 101

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Wow... when you see it like this, it is truly amazing. Some people never, ever learn. Anyone with a clear head can see how the liberals are aiding our enemy... and how generally bad for our country their behavior is.

[[ After World War II, Republicans seeking to end long years of political frustration accused Franklin Roosevelt of deliberately and maliciously ignoring intelligence that clearly revealed Japan's plans to attack the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor. It was, the critics alleged, the president's way of dragging a reluctant nation into the war after winning a third term in the White House on the promise he would never do so.

Similar allegations were made following the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that brought the nation full force into the Vietnamese civil war. Lyndon Johnson, critics charged, had deliberately magnified a minor incident, if it occurred at all, to carry out policies based on a specious domino theory for Southeast Asia propounded by experts in both political parties. The charges helped fuel a growing and sometimes violent antiwar movement that not only dislodged the president and ultimately helped tarnish his successor but also gave sustenance to the North Vietnamese and cost more lives by prolonging their stubborn refusal to negotiate an end.

One can even go back to World War I, when Woodrow Wilson won a second term in 1916 by promising never to get involved in the war then raging in Europe. But he reneged on the pledge, using what critics called a spurious reason, the sinking by a German U-boast of the passenger ship Lusitania with a large number of Americans aboard. There was even some evidence that the ship also was carrying munitions and, therefore, was a legitimate target. The allegations worked and Americans began a long period of voting for Republicans.

The one immutable fact is that history always repeats itself, and that is exactly what is happening as the debate grows over reasons used to justify the invasion of Iraq. ]]

History Repeats Itself- For Sure

Please read it.

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