Joel Hammer wrote:
> I read the article. I agree except with his assertion we didn't seek war
> with Nazi Germany or Japan. We DID seek war with both those nations. FDR ran
> illegal wars against both those countries prior to Pearl Harbor. Now we
> gaily recall the hero days of the Flying Tigers, but that was a war crime by
> any standards (Shooting down Japanese planes in China with American pilots
> sponsored by the US govt without a declaration of war) and we attacked German
> submarines in the Atlantic long before we were at war with Germany.
> This is not hyperbole. This is the public record. At Nurenberg, such actions
> were punished with death.
> Joel
The fact that we were the victors made it lawful, remembering that Nuremburg was an
allied
court.
Under the so called rules of war, war crimes are only committed by the losers, thats
why the
verteran
is more anti war that the civilian, having experienced war in all its horrors. Even
today with
the
terrible immediacy of media war, one has to be in the front line the know the truth.
Yesterday
Wahington was in the front line.
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