I still think Franklin Pierce will be getting top billing for worst President by most, not because
he deserves it but because I feel most historians will not look at Bush as having
dragged us into the war in the Middle East. I think historians are more influenced
by idealogies than they would prefer to admit.
F. Pierce: worst prez for initiating the Spanish Am war. I think that title will
probably hold for a long time until we get one worse than G.W. Bush.


Randy

WWII ,. Many historians and hobbyists of WWII have scoured the photos of
the end of the war and the documents to determine if Adolf Hitler my have
had Siphylls or some other combination of diseasies that were genetic or
caught, or perhaps acheived through poisoning. Whatever the case it is without
doubt that Hitler was brillant as a commander in the early war if you compare it
to his decision in the last of the war. His decline is not only measureable but profound and
could be seen by those in Germany, US, England. In fact there are words coined for
this decline, Bunker Mentality, where in Hitler began to covey round him only those
he distrusted least and those who would not disagree with him. He became
very paranoid and very stubborn in the end. One of the reasons for his insecurities
was that he knew the power and need for fuel for his army, which was what he
made sure was supplied to the troops during crucial campaigns.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_...logy)#1945

It was a bad setback that German forces invaded Poland then were commanded
to withdraw because it was bad mojo because of the stars because it was
a day too early. (so it is my understanding) Retaking the city the next day
was a foot by foot battle and very costly to the ultimate plan and to troop
numbers (many fatalities and loss of morale).

Another point, there is something called "dead reckoning" which means
the crew of an airplane will 'guess' their position based on
surmised wind speed, direction, plane speed and the lights on the
ground that can be seen. One craft bombed a city when it meant to bomb a
military target; this event in combination with the many incursions and unprovoked
hostilities by German U-boats against ships of peace caused disfavor toward
Germany and the US to enter the war , the English to step up hostilites and
the Aliies to become far more aggressive, 'Taking the gloves off" so to speak.
If it had not been for these factors above, (all of those above) the war
by the German nation would have dragged on far longer between the warring Nation
and the many uncommitted nations of the Allies that would have preferred to
remain isolationalist/pacficist.

To put it in the simplist of terms, the school bully picked on too many geeks, too
hard and too long and they ganged that bully in the ally come after school.
The peoples of peaceful (sheepish cowardice) were forced to take action because
of the arrogant brazenness that was being demonstrated by German command
at the time.

Please feel free to supply me with any pertainate information, as my 3/4 German
dad may have had a bit of a odd slant on some events. In researching this
I noticed many inaccuracies in what I was told, verses what the history books
tell.


Randy