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Evidence that the president planed to go to war; long before he told the American people.
Topic Started: May 26 2005, 08:05 AM (438 Views)
Admiralbill_gomec
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gvok
May 26 2005, 07:10 AM
WWII was a war of necessity. Iraq was a war of choice.

Tell us how going to war with Germany was a necessity? Why did we attack Germany first when Japan attacked us?
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Dr. Noah
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Germany declared war on us.
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gvok
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I believe we had to build up our naval forces in the Pacific before we could begin to mount a counter offensive.
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Darthsith
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Germany was a necessity because now that the war is over, and most of the secret information about it has been declassified, and after 60 years of contemplation we can truly understand the scope and purpose behind it. We also have the ability to fully see what the enemy had done and was planning to do.

It reminds me of something ‘President’ Clinton said (In a discovery times show
last night) about the dubious actions FDR took before the war (and during it). He said that FDR cam really close to being in violation of abuse of powers, that the only thing that saved him form that distinction was intent. Clinton said FDR’s intent for taking those dubious actions was to do what he thought was best for America. That intent keeps us form calling what he did leading up to the war an abuse of his powers (in fact we call him a hero for it). But the American people couldn’t have know this until after the war was over, and in most cases long after. If the American people had know what FDR was doing at the time he was doing it, first he would never have won a third term a isolationist who would have kept us out of that war for a long time would have won, and second he would have most likely been impeached.
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Fesarius
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That's probably a fair assessment and I can't disagree with any point you have made. However, in WWII the US and Japan were roughly on par militarily. The US and Iraq were no where near on par militarily when the US invaded that country. So if you want to argue that US chose to compete with Japan for resources in the Pacific it is not the same as saying that the US chose to invade Iraq. At least it is not the same in my estimation.

Gvok,

I am not saying the actions (Japan 1941-1945; Iraq, 2001-???) were on a par. I am suggesting the war against Japan was probably not as 'clean' as the war against Hitler. However, both actions were part of the same war.
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gvok
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Okay. I don't disagree with that.
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Darthsith
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Thank you 24thcenstfan.


Also Bush aside, I would like to know what people think of this. It was a very interesting tv show last night.
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gvok
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Yes, thanks 24 for cleaning up the thread.
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