Gilligan wrote:
Hawaii was not a state then. It was a conquered territory.

And, we were attacked. Iraq didn't attack a country outside its borders.

We invaded Hawaii and toppled its government. Then the Japs attacked.


Actually a dozen sugar growers, with the help of a rogue minister and
a handful of marines, staged a coup and imprisoned the Queen. When
the Democratic President found out he fired the minister, apologized
to the Queen, and reported to Congress: "By an act of war, committed
with the participation of a diplomatic representative of the United
States and without authority of Congress, the government of a feeble
but friendly and confiding people has been overthrown. A substantial
wrong has thus been done, which a due regard for our national
character, as well as the rights of the injured people, requires we
should endeavor to repair."

President Cleveland refused to approve the annexation, but his
Republican successor, McKinley did.


Then the Japs attacked.