FIRESIDE CHAT #2 from PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT

To My Fellow Americans Like FoxTrot Zulu
To My Allies like Galletas
To My Enemies Like Chocolate Cake, Mow My Lawn, and Jello

And To JohnnyBBetter:

War is hell - General William Sherman said that on his destructive drive to Atlanta during the Civil War. It has to be so terrible and awful that an enemy will lose all heart.

FoxTrot Zulu, we know your deprivations. You are our heroes. Every night we go to bed praying for your safety, willing you the strength to kill our enemy, and to prevail. Our grateful country thanks you for your service and we are mobilizing every man woman and child to support you back home. American women are building bombers alongside their men, American children go around the neighborhood collecting tin cans to be used in the war effort. My own grandmother uses her ration coupons to eat meat only once a week. Spam is on every American's meal plan. We sacrifice for your sacrifice. Fight on for us.

Galletas, you live in the shadow of the enemy, and you are loyal to freedom and democracy. Do not worry; DeGaulle will return and sweep the vichy away like pig vomit. Stay in the shadows and know we are coming for you. Take out your hidden radios and listen for our messages to the Free French who heroically battle the Nazis in their own backyard. We are coming for you. "It wounds my heart with a monotonous langour..."

Chocolate Cake, you speak of loyalty, but you are loyal to a mad man. Have you read Mein Kampf? Do you realize where this man is leading you. Remember that the lemmings loyally follow their leader... right off of a cliff.

Jello, I haven't heard from you. Is that because we have silenced your Japanese contacts in our camps near Seattle? You are retreating. Your time is short. Beware. Terrible, terrible weapons are coming.

And Johnny B. You are eloquent, articulate... and aloof. You sit at a safe distance saying grand things, but YOU are indecisive. This is a time in history where there is a good and an evil, a right and a wrong. This is the time to fight. To FIGHT. And I am worried about your ignorance - don't you see how stretched Hitler is? He has armies in North Africa, armies in Italy, armies in France. He is throwing away planes like an old woman casting bird seed, and soon he will have no air force left. AND he has made the mistake of Napoleon. He is fighting deep in Russia in winter. No army in history has survived that adversary. Open your mind, use that intelligence and see that Hitler is at heart a mere corporal, a spoiled child moving armies around like chess pieces.

End game is coming.