I bet if the likes of Joe Wilson and John McCain were around when Harry Truman

[WCGreen]

worked to racially integrate the United States Armed Forces, they would have used the same arguments, "maintain unit cohesion" and the such in order to support a continuation of racial segregation.

Way to go boys.

It's pretty much the same ludicrous argument the likes of these fellas always fall back on when backed into a corner...

[lazarus]

1. those arguments were, indeed, used

You can't ask white boys to serve with black boys, that was another one. Truman told them STFU and get it done.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. He would have made short work of them, for sure...

Ole Harry had balls.

[Nevernose]

3. Especially Joe Wilson

Harry might just've gone to Joe's house and socked him one -- it wouldn't have been totally out of character, given what a gigantic asshole the honorablr representative is.

"Letters to Bess" was, by the way, probably the first grown-up nonfiction book I ever read.

[Nevernose]

4. Especially Joe Wilson

Harry might just've gone to Joe's house and socked him one -- it wouldn't have been totally out of character, given what a gigantic asshole the honorablr representative is.

"Letters to Bess" was, by the way, probably the first grown-up nonfiction book I ever read.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. And Harry Truman would've chewed them up and spit them out.

[Bitwit1234]

6. The more they fuss the more they seem the SAME