Will New Illustrious Dunderheads Lead Us Into WW3? TH. 1940 GOP Congress Anti FDR, Defended Hitler
Will the New Illustrious Dunderheads Lead Us into WWIII? By Thom Hartmann, Daily Kos, March 4, 2024. - Ed.
“Our enemies, the Administration keeps telling the people, are Germany, Italy, and Japan, naming them. Not one off them has made a gesture toward us. For all we think and feel about Hitler, he has not attacked us. But the American government has attacked Hitler first by words, then by measures short of war, then by giving pledge to his enemies to assist them by all physical means to the utmost.” - Tenn. Republican Rep. John Jennings, July 14, 1940
“I know of no Member of this House, Mr. Speaker, who possess the remotest idea that any of Hitler’s panzer divisions are to strike in the desert of Arizona or in the sand stretches of the Mojave. How long are the American people to be fed this stuff?” Mich. Republican Rep. Paul Shafer, May 16, 1941. In the 2 years leading up to Pearl Harbor, roughly a hundred Republican members of Congress stood up to publicly defend Hitler and condemn Democratic President Franklin Delano Roosevelt for “war mongering” and “promoting socialism.”
Last week Marjorie Taylor Greene echoed their comments - almost to the word - in condemning President Biden’s efforts to aid Ukraine against this generation’s fascist menace, Vladimir Putin. She told reporters and then posted to Facebook, X, and Instagram: “I wish the CIA cared about our own border security like they care about Ukraine’s. I will not vote to fund the CIA’s war with Russia and the rest of my Republican colleagues should do the same. The U.S. Congress needs to focus and fix our own nation’s problems!”
Déjà vu, much? Back in 1940, Penn. Republican Congressman Robert Rich told Congress: “Who is afraid of Hitler? He is not coming 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. He is not going to attack this country. Any man who is in the White House should not be able to say that Mussolini stuck us in the back. “We ought to have somebody in the White House who is friendly to the people all over the world if we want to be a good neighbor. Mr. Roosevelt has lost the confidence of most European nations. (Congressional Record, Sept. 23, 1940, p. 18863)... More + Comments,
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