Declaration of War Quotes
First woman elected to Congress. She was one of a handful of Congressman who opposed the WWI declaration. She was the only member of the House to oppose FDR’s request for a Declaration of War against Japan after Pearl Harbor.
With a professionalized all volunteer military, most of whom came from just a few socio-economic strata of our society, wars at the time were fought and the risks and burdens borne by a small part of American society. The rest of society, unlike the Second World War did not experience any change in their style or standard of living.
The Muslims had internal wars but they had—and still have--two sets of morality as to the laws of war. This illustrates the classic Islamic discrimination against non-believers to which the minority of Muslim terrorists still adhere,
In 1963 there was only one Congressman who expressed misgivings about United States military involvement in Vietnam:
First woman elected to Congress. Vote against the Declaration of World War I requested by President Woodrow Wilson. The Congresswoman was consistent. When President Roosevelt asked Congress for a declaration of war against Japan after Pearl Harbor, she cast the only "no" vote. She was therefore the only member of Congress who voted against the declaration of War in both WWI and WWII.
At the time the President denied that he had decided to invade Iraq. Skelton saw the “handwriting on the world.”
