"Keenan Wellar" wrote in message
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in article t, rick etter
at wrote on 11/29/04 7:30 PM:


"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embargo parts of the act were repealed.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.

If your point is that Roosevelt had to in effect lure the country into
armed
involvement one baby step at a time, you are correct.
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It still means that in a legal sense the US was at war. The same can be
said with the Japanese prior to Pearl Harbor because of US actions in the
pacific.