Larry K, your "confession " re. the intellectual level of the Americans who voted for G.W. is appreciated by all of good intention, even if it was couched in a garbled dissertation on U.K. history, and a strange account of the pre and post-war events. To put you on a more coherent and credible path: The British people didn't "support Neville Chamberlain in 1939, although the did hope that he could avoid war. And your enthusiastic promotion of the American rescue of the free world is [typically, I,m afraid] 'way off-kilter. We were glad when the Americans became at last involved in WW2. But, as in the first world war, they were years late, and didn't "enter" the fight--they were forced into it. In fact it was Germany who declared war on the USA, not the other way round. And Winston was a WAR leader. As a peacetime politician his time in parliament was a catalogue of sheer disaster.It was the SOLDIERS' vote which dumped him , by the way. We are eternally grateful for the part which America played in both of the world wars. But for gawd's sake let's have no more of the John Wayne hypercrap about Uncle Sam on his white horse galloping to the rescue. One Nazi invasion plan had already been thwarted by British/Canadian/Polish fliers long before the boys went "over there".