It is generally agreed that Lincoln was the greatest president. During his term of office, more Americans were killed than in all of America’s other wars combined.
The second greatest is generally conceded to be George Washington. He had an unfortunately almost bloodless eight years as president, but he was the leader when the greatest slaughter in our history occurred before Lincoln took the lead.
Frankling Roosevelt is in the top three. His administration saw the greatest number of American deaths since Lincoln’s championship record, as yet unbroken.
Wilson is termed one of the great presidents, but by the time he kept America out of war to get reelected in 1916, he got us into World War I too late to build up a serious body count, though he WAS a distant third.
Reagan won his war without firing a shot. So he was not a great president.
#1 by Dave on 04/26/2007 - 6:11 pm
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The UK Defense Ministry’s Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre recently issued a new report:
“The middle classes could become a revolutionary class. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat… Faced by these twin challenges, the world’s middle-classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest.”
The report argues that the era of major wars between nation states is over, but that cooperation among nation states on policies that produce ever greater disparities of wealth will usher in an era of class warfare between classes of citizens across national boarders.
Substitute the word “white race” for “middle classes” and “class interest” and the Concepts and Doctrine Centre may have it right.
#2 by Mark on 04/26/2007 - 7:26 pm
“Reagan won his war without firing a shot.”
I’ll bet those dead Marines in Lebanon wished he would have fired a shot or two.
#3 by Anonymous on 04/26/2007 - 7:48 pm
It takes a disaster to elect a disaster, it takes a war and thousands of American dead to hide the truth. Every war sinse the revolutionary war was in the defense of freedom for Americans rather, wars fought to control the natons and peoples of forign lands. From lincoln to Bush two our freedoms and those of the citizens we so call liberated have erroded. To call any war a war for freedom must be viewed as the exact opposite, just how was america and our people threatened, thoudands of miles of ocean and a rich economy hardly constituted the need to expended lives on American over seas. What happened was, we forgot how to fight for real freedom, resist goverment and the propaganda used to promote it’s lies, when presidental disaters call for wars of freedom they are really saying you are no longer free in body spirit and mind, your just a usefull idiot.