Worst U.S. President

What I was trying to say is that if you compare the worst Europe has given the world as opposed to the worst America has given the world, no American President even comes close to the Evil thugs that have spewed out from the nations of Europe in the last 300 years or so. Hitler and Stalin were blood thirsty morons who killed a combined total of over 100 million people. I don't recall reading about any leader from North America that has ever even attempted that scale of mass slaughter in history.

Like I said if any American President comes close to Hilter it would be Andrew Jackson but again the scale of deaths he caused and inflected were far less than Hitler or Stalin.

I never said President Bush is a good President but I don't see where any clear minded person could compare him to Hitler due to the fact that he has yet to slaughter 40 million people.

As a matter of fact, after 9-11 under America's policy of massive retaliation laid down in the 1950s and 1960s America could have used Nuclear weapons in responce to the Sept 11th attacks. Had Bush been Hilter like he would have. (Many on the far right were in favor of using tactical Nuclear weapons in the mountian areas of Afghanistan including, Vice President Chenney.) I myself was in favor of using special operations forces and pin-point bombing. In my opinion the New York Police Dept. would have been of better use than the military. People have lost sight of the fact that what happend on 9-11 was not an act of war but a crime to be handled by law enforcement not by the military.

As far as Iraq goes we have no bussness there. 

I cannot think anyone else right now.He is the first idiot i've thinked.

I would have to say Abraham Lincoln! He totally mishandled the secession of the southern states, most of which would not have left the union if he had not been elected.

Actually, Im being sarcastic, but we must all realize that many consider him the greatest president, now after over 150 years of retrospect when at the time of his presidency he was hated by the people who make the most noise, yet still won a second election. Sound familiar?

Im so sick of people bashing Truman. Im not going to reiterate the same damn argument I have been making throughout this thread and I dont feel its necessary to defend the tactic that killed less people than conventional bombing  did anyway (people who were a support structure of a governmetn which killed far more civilians than all allied bombing campaigns over both Germany and Japan combined).  Truman did what anyone with a brain would have done, and my mere existence and the survival of my family from what would have been a far more catastrophic conventional invasion fo Japan is vindication of his decisions.

This is the same president who was behind the Marshall Plan, and the desegregation of the military.  He was the second greatest American president of the 20th century.

Tobodai:

People do not read the threads, nor, evidently, do they read much history.  In any event, most of their interpretations seem rather pre-judged and not open to discussion.  Just my impression of the forum you understand.