Quote:I didn't say anything was excused, I said that he was a great president in spite of that mar on his record.

 

What part of it don't you get?

 

You just excused the internment camps and said all things consider it wasn't that bad because we treated AMERICAN CITIZENS better than the Japanese treated POW's and Nazi's treated Jews.

 

Quote:Without condoning the internment of U.S. citizens, you cannot discount the times in which it occurred. Given your criteria and ignoring what was going on at that time, the list of top 5 U.S. presidents would start with Washington, and include Jefferson, for not insisting that slavery be abolished. How could the immorality of that practice escape one of the greatest minds in history? Jefferson not only owned slaves, he used his position of authority and dominion to make a slave his concubine.  I'd say 400 years of kidnapping and enslaving people trumps just about anything else. Andrew Jackson committed genocide.

 

When you make a list like that, you have many candidates for number 1.

 

So I guess you would advocate taking all Muslims looking Americans and putting them in internment camps today, don't discount the times that we live in now.

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