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07/16/44 Normandy Surge Failed. Withdraw

July 16, 1944


Dear President Roosevelt:

As you know, I voted for War in December 1941, have always supported the troops, and have stood with you over 2 ½ years during which our treasury’s been drained, the environment savaged, about 1/3 million of our fine soldiers killed, and double that amount injured.

But now that the D-Day surge is more than a month old and the Army is still in Normandy due to long standing HEDGEROWS, while progress in the Pacific is at a snails pace and high cost, it is time to publicly admit the inability of our incompetenent military (itemized below) to win without further horrendous losses, and set timetables for withdraw.

Pearl Harbor and Hickam Field Attack:
- At Hickam airplanes were concentrated rather than dispersed.
- Washington’s warnings took hours and were too late.
- Word of sinking a nearby 1 man sub did not reach those in charge.
- Radar detected the attack, but word did not reach those in charge.
The Atlantic:
- Germans sank numerous ships within miles of our coast.
- We’ve lost over 3,000 ships and 25,000 merchant marines.
The Pacific:
- We’ve failed to sink numerous ships due to faulty torpedoes.
- It took 6 months just to take Guadalcanal.
- We lost thousands at Tarawa for virtually nothing.
- We’ve only just taken control of the Philippine Sea.
- The new B-29 is over budget, behind schedule, and a lemon’s lemon.
Africa:
- It started with the French firing on our troops.
- There were a plethora of disasters before we turned it around.
Europe:
- Our Navy shot down numerous paratrooper loaded C-47’s near Sicily.
- Churchill called Italy the “Soft Under Belly of Europe”, but we’ve suffered huge losses and slow progress.
- Air raids on the likes of Ploesti were unmitigated disasters.
- Germany has a new “jet” plane 100 mph faster than our planes.
- Intelligence claims a new “V-2” rocket will attack England soon.
The Normandy Surge:
- Our best general, Patton, was sidelined for SLAPPING A SOLDIER.
- Eisenhower made unauthorized promises to de Gaulle for his support.
- Our bombers and naval guns were of very little help at the beaches, but killed plenty of the French.
- Brave Rangers died taking out log “guns” at Pointe Du Hoc.
- Many troops were unloaded hundreds of yards from planned points.
- Many troops were unloaded too far out to sea and drowned.
- Most of our “floating” tanks sank.
- Many gliders and paratroopers came down far from planned locations.
- We lost over 6,000 dead on D-Day alone.
- It would have been far worse were it not for Rommel being away for his wife’s birthday, and Hitler being asleep.
- Our Sherman tank gets blown to bits by German Tiger I tanks, and an even better Tiger II tank is being introduced.
Boondoggles:
- Extreme money’s being wasted on a farfetched wonder bomb, even though the Germans are years behind us on their version.
- We’re still paying Howard Hughes millions to build an unneeded 300’ wide unflyable airplane to supply Europe.
Civil Rights:
- German infiltrators were tried by the Military and hung in 2 months.
- Tens of thousands of Japanese-Americans are interred in California.
- Press Reports and Letters from fronts are highly censored.

Since we were attacked by JAPAN, political support for this war has steadily declined. If we continue our arrogant, unrealistic course of “unconditional surrender” it is quite reasonable to expect 1 ½ to 2 million additional U. S. casualties. And given the long standing cultures of the Germans and Japanese, we would probably need to occupy both countries for 5 to 10 years afterwards, and they would likely revert to their former ways soon after our departure. The time to stop the carnage is now.


Most Humbly and Sincerely,


Sinator Benedict Judas Fonda Bombast

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