"Michael Daly" wrote in message
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On 29-Nov-2004, "rick etter" wrote:

Just because it had not been
officially declared does not mean that the US wasn't morally and legally
already at war with Germany long before.

Yer joking, right? Well it's a pretty poor joke and an insult to those
who
lost their lives actually engaged in the war. I'm sure Hilter was quaking
in his boots at the thought that the US was "morally" engaged in the war.
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Yes, I'm sure he was. Roosevelt declared the US neutral at start of war.
Want to know how long that lasted? 1 month. 1 month before the arms
embargo parts of the act were repealed. Supplying arms to a billegerent is
not a 'neutral' act.



Bleeding the British treasury dry by selling them munitions isn't the best
way of showing moral involvment.
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So, you put a price on freedom. Nice to know... Ever hear of lend-lease...

Picking up a gun and pitching in would have
been a lot more productive and would have shortened the war considerably.
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ROTFLMA We did that fool.



The only way for the US to be legally at war was to defend itself against
the
Nazis, which in turn required them to have declared war on the yanks which
only
happened as a result of the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and the
Philippines.
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I suggest you go for the refund of what ever school you went to.



I'll give you a stating place,
look for a connection between destroyers and bases

Oh you mean the token escorts of the North Atlantic convoys? Here's a
fact -
even after the Americans entered the war the Canadian Navy had more ships
on
escort than the yanks. IIRC, the yanks took over a year to gear up to the
point that they actually contributed as much as a nation one-tenth its
size.
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No, fool, I'm talking about destroyers, traded to Britain in return for
areas to install US bases. Hardly the stuff of neutrality, what?



It was the rest of europes' indecision and appeasment that allowed the
war
to happen, not the USs'.

Nice try. You find it easy to lay blame but impossible to admit that the
majority of Americans had no interest in the situation in Europe.
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ROTFLMAO Like the French or British had any interest? What a hoot. You
were warned for years what could come, but your 'good' life came before any
inconveninet thing like upholding treaties, eh?


Last
I checked, the US was a member of the League of Nations at that time.
They could have acted but chose not to.
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Because they wasn't even a hint of the european pansy wanting to do
anything, except Churchhill.



Mike