Home Front Quotes
Wilson was very candid that there would be high cost to war and sacrifice would be needed. See {584570} for other similar candor. This quotation was often used by critics of George W. Bush who initiated the Iraq War and then cut taxes for the rich, but then financed the war through the budgetary emergency appropriations bypassing the budget rules that the revenue must be specified to pay for it. His administration even claimed at an early stage in the war that the oil revenue from Iraq oil would defray the costs.
This is an interesting historical quotation because it shows how easily the United States commandeered private property during World War II. All it took was a letter from the Secretary of War. This particular quotation and letter had further historical significance. The school was acquired as the first facility for the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos. This was where the atomic bomb was built.
English foreign and military policy had been so effective that English citizens had been completely sheltered from all the British military hostilities throughout the world. Keyserlingk and other German military planners, observing the effect that home public opinion had on war policies and practices, placed a high priority on bringing war to the British civilians and sinking merchant ships was the one way they had technologically open to them. Latter, in WWII, the same objective was achieved by the bombing of the Blitz—bombing of London and other cities with planes and rockets.
The “surge” was an increase in the number of troops deployed in the Iraq War at the time as things were not going well in the war. However, the Senator represented New Orleans and the cleanup and reconstruction effort after Hurricane Katrina there was not going well either. Landrieu used the example of the surge in the war effort to advocate a larger effort in New Orleans.
She reported on a national meeting of experts to plan for maintenance of school opportunities and child labor standards, civil protection of children, community services needed for children in defense areas—such as the organization of part-time care outside the home, medical care and prevention and treatment of juvenile delinquency, etc.
The American Army had just liberated Bellau Wood, but had lost almost 8,000 men.
