Here is an interesting mail i received from a very good
friend.. I wanted to share with you all:
You may recall that a few weeks ago, President Obama spoke of three former
Presidents making prisoner swaps at the end of wars that took place on their
watch, "much like this swap" he said convincingly.
CNN carried this quote, "This is what happens at the end of wars."
President Barack Obama boasted Tuesday when he was asked about swapping American
Army Sgt. Deserter for five vicious Taliban terrorists. "That was true for
George Washington...That was true for Abraham Lincoln and that was true for FDR.
That’s been true of every combat situation, that at some point, you make sure
that you try to get your folks back...
And that’s the right thing to do.
Really?
That statement blatantly demonstrates that the most powerful man in the World
and two term President of the United States lacks even a grade school level of
knowledge of American History; specifically, history as it relates to three of
our most famous presidents and it demonstrates again that we have essentially
elected a foreigner who has no understanding of the very country that he reigns
supreme over.
Then again, he was educated at an Ivy League school so you can't expect too
much.
What's wrong with his statements?
Let's keep it simple--EVERYTHING is wrong!
1. George Washington did not become president until six years after the
Revolutionary War ended in 1783. By 1789 there were no longer any prisoners for
him to exchange.
2. Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in mid-April of 1865. The Civil War ended
the following month. He was still dead at that time. No deals were made to
exchange prisoners after the war. All prisoners were simply freed.
3. FDR died of a stroke before the end of WWII. Like Lincoln, he stayed dead
after the war so he couldn't do what this jerk says he did. You'll recall that
Harry S. Truman made the decision to drop two nuclear bombs on Japan, ending
World War II. He made no deals for prisoners. We went in and released them when
necessary.
4. None of the Presidents that Obama noted were in office at the ends of those
wars, making it impossible for them to make any sort of prisoner swaps, let
alone the 5 for 1, plus unspecified cash, for a deserter and traitor by our "57
States" president.
5. It should be pointed out that countless deserters and traitors were shot or
hung during all three of the aforementioned wars.
What amazes one even more than the ignorance of the President is that he has
managed to surround himself with a staff that is just as clueless?
... or willing, as the media are, to cover for his dumb, lying rhetoric and
behavior!
P.S. Obama mentioned while being interviewed on Super Bowl Sunday while in the
Whitehouse kitchen, that George Washington drank beer in the White House when he
was president .
George Washington never lived in the White House; it wasn't built yet.