The View From Kalamazoo

I think what George is trying to say is ‘We shouldn’t have provoked Hitler over Poland!’
(#1513 Respect MP George Galloway says: “We argued, as did the security services in this country, that the attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq would increase the threat of terrorist attack in Britain. Tragically Londoners have now paid the price of the Government ignoring such warnings.”)

Attaboy, George.

Winston Churchill to V-E Day crowds, Whitehall London, 8th May 1945

There we stood, alone. Did anyone want to give in? Were we down-hearted?
The lights went out and the bombs came down. But every man, woman and
child in the country had no thought of quitting the struggle. London can
take it. So we came back after long months from the jaws of death, out
of the mouth of hell, while all the world wondered. When shall the
reputation and faith of this generation of English men and women fail? I
say that in the long years to come not only will the people of this
island but of the world, wherever the bird of freedom chirps in human
hearts, look back to what we’ve done and they will say “do not despair,
do not yield to violence and tyranny, march straightforward and die if
need be – unconquered.” Now we have emerged from one deadly struggle – a
terrible foe has been cast on the ground and awaits our judgment and our
mercy.

But there is another foe…a foe stained with cruelty….We must begin
the task of rebuilding our health and homes, doing our utmost to make
this country a land in which all have a chance, in which all have a
duty, and we must turn ourselves to fulfil our duty to our own
countrymen, and to our gallant allies of the United States who were so
foully and treacherously attacked….We will go hand and hand with them.
Even if it is a hard struggle we will not be the ones who will fail.

[as previously posted in my lj]