Posted on 06/02/2004 10:29:02 AM PDT by Edward_Daley
Beats me!
Brilliant! Bravo!
Thank God this is just a mock article I wrote to illustrate the absurdity of the left's recent propagandist antics.
All that aside, you don't think a permanent state of war existed between the U.S. and Saddam? Even though the U.S. was enforcing a "No fly" zone in Iraq, and our guys were getting shot at on a regular basis? Not to mention the regular flouting, by Saddam, of U.N. resolutions? (although I have to admit, bringing up U.N. resolutions in regards to Iraq is a weak argument)
No, he had been ordered to deliver it prior to the attacks, but the code machines used by the Japanese had mechanical problems and they were not delivered until after the attack. (US Secretary of State had the decrypted message before the Japanese Ambassador.) A Naval Intelligence officer who was aware of the intercepted "14 part" message drove by the Japanese embassy on Saturday, December 6, 1941 and observed that they were burning their code books. Not a good sign.
Thanks.
Then my job is done here! ;o)
"I'm not sure that war was ever officially declared upon Germany"
I've already posted the German declaration. Here's the American:
The War Resolution
Declaring that a state of war exists between the Government of Germany and the government and the people of the United States and making provision to prosecute the same.
Whereas the Government of Germany has formally declared war against the government and the people of the United States of America:
Therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that the state of war between the United States and the Government of Germany which has thus been thrust upon the United States is hereby formally declared; and the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the government to carry on war against the Government of Germany; and to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States
...and American forces were occupying British islands/bases in the Caribbean, Bermuda & Iceland so that the Brits could redeploy their slender land forces to better defend the homeland -- all before Pearl Harbor. The US was an Atlantic combatant in all but name...
No, but Charles Lindburgh did.
Well then allow me to remove your head from another region of dark and questionable surroundings and remind you that extrapolating cause and effect scenarios from random data will invariably lead the to very conclusion that you started out to find. The human mind is constructed and trained to look for patterns.
The selling of weapons technology to Saddam cannot be used as an indictment of US complicity in his actions. We sold weapons technology to Britain and they yet managed to not use it on the Irish. We allowed other diplomatic personell to leave the country on 9/11, it is just the Saudis and Bin Laden relatives that are always mentioned.
Stop using Google and try visiting a library. You get to read source material and form opinions based on the actual facts instead of edited, recopied, and pre-pasted propoganda.
Of course Bin Laden and Saddam are two different people. But they are members of the same evil brotherhood of terror and are both equally enemies of the United States.
John Dos Passos, another hero of the accedemic left.
Germany never attacked us, regardless of whether they declared war on paper or not, and Saddam declared defacto war time and again by breaking the cease-fire agreement he signed with us and the U.N. and firing on our plane patrolling the no-fly zones.
Beyond that, when a liberal wants to support or oppose something, they rarely ever make those sorts of distinctions. They are mostly irrational in their assessment of a particular situation, relying more on their guts than their heads.
Since you said that this blather is "provable" why don't you start out providing the photos, documents and such to do so
If you don't have actual proof, then you need to stop spreading around fables as facts.
It is silly.
It's a slight exaggeration. ;o)
*laughing* Great picture!
How heartless of me! *shamed expression*
Thank you. :o)
Brilliant! You captured precisely what the media of today would have written then.
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