What wanton hubris is this? Yesterday, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in a display of raw arrogance not seen since Herbert Hoover told hungry sharecroppers to "eat cake," ordered our all-white, heterosexual male conscript forces to take Normandy at all costs. Roosevelt thumbed his nose at the League of Nations, eschewing their unique legitimacy, in order to needlessly engage in an illegal attack over the vetoes of Italy, Czechoslovakia, Sudetenland, and Poland.

Roosevelt's true motives are clear for those who choose to see. "This attack is nothing more than a distraction from FDR's failures in Japan," stated Joseph P. Kennedy, former ambassador to Great Britain. "After all, wasn't it Japan who attacked us? Why bother Hitler when it is Hirohito who attacked us? Besides, the New Deal has been a miserable failure, and Roosevelt wants to appease the neocons who want to establish a state of Israel after the war." With the election less then five months away, and FDR's poll numbers at their lowest point since 1933, something needed to be done, and fast. Without any sort of judicial review or search warrant, our troops stormed a sovereign country unprovoked. Besides, the French don't even want us there.

"This was a peaceful country until the Americans arrived with all their shooting and bombing," said Jacques Les Wimp, a local Vichy official. "No one did any fighting or shooting when ze Germans came here. It was very peaceful. The Americans only want to us to eat at Horn and Hardart's and drive Studebakers, and will do it at gunpoint if necessary. They are a bunch of cowboys; overpaid, oversexed, and, now, over here." A poor, single mother, who no longer has the social safety net she has come to rely on, put I more succinctly. "[W]e were the victims of their bombs," said Ms Bouyssou.

Ms. Bouyssou isn't the only woman harshly affected by the invaders. Young girls, expecting to enjoy pool outings and piano lessons during the crushingly hot summer vacation months, are instead locked up at home. Some have stopped going to school altogether, as much because of the threat of violence as because of the economic hardships facing their families. Still, the American invasion and occupation have wrought small, but profound, changes in the everyday lives of girls.

"It's as if you're in prison," is how a disgruntled 15-year-old named Sophia Desjardins described her predicament, sitting poolside one Wednesday morning inside a posh, well-guarded private club. It was her first outing to the pool all year. "These Americans are scary and untrustworthy. I just know that if I leave the club grounds, the Americans will throw me in Abu Croissant prison, and violate my civil liberties."

Senator Hillary Rose, a staunch defender of the rights of the underprivileged, reminded everyone of the better times at a meeting of the American Bund in Cincinnati. "Under der Furher, she said, women "went to school; they participated in the professions, they participated in the government and business and, as long as they stayed out of [Adolf's] way, they had considerable freedom of movement."

Ludwig von Weinerschnitzel, a German soldier, also lives in fear of having his civil rights trampled on. "My fragile psyche would never recover from having underwear placed on my head. Dachau are Auschwitz are housing programs. Abu Croissant is a hell on Earth." Upset at FDR's characterization of Hitler as "an evil-doer," the soldiers spoke more defiantly. "The Americans are everything they accuse Hitler of being. Der Furher is misunderstood. He only wants to increase the average income of all Germans. With 6 million less people taking a bite at that pie, each of us now have a greater share of German wealth."

Field Marshall Schadenfreude, confident of victory and defiant of Eisenhower, proclaimed that America would see a quagmire that "their nightmares could not fathom." And, the decorated, heroic officer added, "If Eisenhower thinks that he is just going to come here and rule by fiat, he can forget it. We have a team of ACLU attorneys ready to file habeas corpus petitions in the United States on a moment's notice. He'll have to get a cot in the back room of the Ninth Circuit, we'll bury him so high in litigation." The blue-eyed handsome Field Marshall, a Bavarian by birth, and a man who writes poetry and dreams of seeing the end of Jim Crow when not repelling the invaders, slyly added, "We have a secret offensive planned. Right now, Hitler, Rommel, Goebbels, Schmidt ("Berlin Vin," their TV spokesman), the BBC, and Reuters are the only ones who know all about it."

And, where are "our friends" the Russians? Nowhere to be found. Unlike Roosevelt, who prefers to wage war on the backs of hard-working minorities who man the munitions factories without receiving decent health care coverage, Stalin rightly has channeled Russian resources to serve the collective good of his people, maintaining universal health care and a literacy rate that is the envy of the world. "Uncle Joe" has too much decency to take part in this charade. Instead, Stalin is sitting back, stunned at America's arrogant display of unilateralism.

A retired military officer, who served from December 1919 until November 1941, slammed Roosevelt during an off-the-record chat. "This is the wrong war at the wrong time. If the international community were only given more time to understand Hitler's gripes stemming from the Treaty of Versailles, and offered concessions, this needless war could have been avoided."

Or, I would add, if FDR hadn't rushed to war, he wouldn't be stuck with a fradulent coalition of Americans, Brits, and Navajo Indians. The use of these "code talkers" shocks the decency of all Americans. In the past, they were the victims of white imperialism. Now, they are forced by poverty and the draft to inflict the same pain on others. FDR is fooling no one. In public, he drones on and on about freeing the world from fascism, all the while intimidating the media from reporting the truth about the German desires to merely have bigger apartments like we Americans have. Derided by reactionaries as "lebensraum," this is only one aspect of Hitler's "Final Solution," which when implemented will make the Fatherland the most diverse and multicultural society on earth, consisting of Poles, Hungarians, Czechs, Belgians, the French, and the Dutch, not to mention Lithuanians if all goes well, who will not be forced to attend segregated schools, have their bratwurst at segregated lunch couters, or drink at separate water fountains.

Moreover, FDR's cronies at the Acme Wheelchair Corporation will benefit handsomely. They are his biggest political contributors and have given him several custom-made wheelchairs worth hundreds of dollars. With the sudden increase in legless Americans, thanks to FDR's warmongering, they stand to reap an untold fortune.

In her powerful documentary, "Farenheit 12/7," Leni Riefenstahl, the Volkswagen assembly line worker who has risen from poverty to become the most important commentator of our age, brilliantly sums up these points in greater detail, in ways that limited column space would not allow.

FDR's needless attack is only another step towards limiting much-needed reforms, and will hurt blacks, gays, and women in ways the Ku Klux Klan could only dream of. He has betrayed our country, and played on our fears. His inordinate fear of social progressivism will leave us as the pariah of the planet, if we are not already at that status.