Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Ronnie's War Message-ID: <666@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Wed, 15-Feb-84 17:19:25 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.666 Posted: Wed Feb 15 17:19:25 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Feb-84 05:44:30 EST References: <852@hao.UUCP> <634@ihuxp.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 20 Walt Pesch points out "It is the tradition for wars to start under democratic presidents." This is a well known dig at the democrats, and I suppose that some could argue that FDR was at least partially responsible for getting the US into WWII (but would a republican have acted any differently when Pearl Harbour was attacked?). However, it was more or less Woodrow Wilson's bad luck to have been president when WWI was going on, the North Koreans would have attacked South Korea just as enthusiastically had Dewey beaten Truman in 1948, and the first American advisors went into Vietnam when Eisenhower was in office. And for the two wars before WWI (Spanish-American War and Civil War), the republicans were firmly in the White House (McKinley and Lincoln). So there. John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL (312) 979-0193 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2