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Originally Posted by Neapolitan
He didn't say "win," he clearly said "got us out of ..."
"FDR helped the US win the war" - The Allies and the resistance and British spies helped the US armed forces to win the war. It wasn't FDR alone.
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Wow. If these are the kinds of mental gymnastics you have to do to make your point, maybe you should rethink your position.
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Originally Posted by Trollheart
You and your damn pedantics. Though I can't get into his head, I'm assuming this is what he meant: to get someone out of something would be to achieve the end of it, which is what happened. He got the US out of the war by helping win it, otherwise they might have been in it (including a costly invasion of Japan) and by authorising the development of the atomic bomb, which was the main factor in ending at least the war in the Pacific.
Are you really going to be such a dick as to deny FDR his legacy? Have you nothing else to do?
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Thanks. I was tempted to respond with more detail, but what's the point? I'm sure every reasonable person who read my post understands what I meant.