On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 14:17, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 13:39 -0500, Ronald J. Hall wrote: > > On Wednesday 29 January 2003 02:11 am, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > > > > > Totally different situation. The American president and the congress > > > did not want to go to war against Germany because a lot of large US > > > companies were tied up with Germany (mostly with the IG Farben > > > conglomerate). The Jewish emigrants from Germany brought hard evidence > > > about the Nazis. Still the Congress voted not to start war. Only the > > > Jewish community forced the president eventually to decide to enter > > > the war. So much about history. > > > > Whoah...I'm a little confused here. Aren't you mixing up World Wars? I thought > > we dragged our heels (a little) in WW1 but we joined WW2 after a cowardly > > attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor - and we were already assisting the > > Allies in many ways before Pearl Harbor. You'll never make me believe that > > this country did not want to enter WW2 after Pearl Harbor!!! > > In case you don't know it yet: Pearl Harbour was attacked by the > Japaneze. They are the slightly smaller men with (mostly) slanted eyes > and live on some islands across the Pacific Ocean to the West of you.
Looks like you need to learn to read as well as learn some history; namely, that your Germany and the Japanese were allies; part of the Axis. > Germans are the average caucasian types living in the middle of > Europe, that is East of you across the Atlantic ocean. > > WWII was - concerning USA - a double war, one to the West with the > Japanese and one in the east against Germany. You want it to sound like these powers were not part of the same set of allies; but they were. It was not a double war, it was a single war on two fronts. > > -- > > > > /\ > > Dark< >Lord > > \/ LX -- ��������������������������������������������������� Kernel 2.4.18-6mdk Mandrake Linux 8.2 Enlightenment 0.16.5-11mdk Evolution 1.0.2-5mdk Registered Linux User #268899 http://counter.li.org/ ���������������������������������������������������
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