Do War Leaders Give Up?

[demwing]

I saw this on Yahoo just now (8/31/04 - 12:55am MST) and just couldn't pass it up:




Doesn't this just say it all?

Truth is stranger than fiction my lefty brothers and sister, stranger than fiction...

[demwing]

1. Looks like they saw the irony

because its gone off to etherland....

[krkaufman]

2. FDR: "We cannot hope to defeat the Axis powers"

"... but perhaps we can push them back to near their original borders."

[demwing]

3. Thats not a real quote

Is it? I mean, I Googled the hell out of that, and all I got was a big handful of Butkis!

Here's something FDR did say:

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Gee. FDR wanted a war on...War! Wait - an end to the beginning of War! Of all the irresponsible things to say! You might as well want an end to terrorism...

[krkaufman]

5. Correct. Made it up. n/t

[demwing]

4. kick

me!