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.

Bleeding the British treasury dry by selling them munitions isn't the best
way of showing moral involvment. Picking up a gun and pitching in would have
been a lot more productive and would have shortened the war considerably.

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.

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.

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. Last
I checked, the US was a member of the League of Nations at that time.
They could have acted but chose not to.

Mike