Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]

[Marmfam3-at-aol.com]

About the Lusatania, that wasn't the reason we went to war.  Think about it, a ship loaded with civilians, mostly women and children, sail strait into a zone of unrestricted submarine warfare (don't even go into the rumors/facts of it carrying munitions or it was a mine or anything like that).  What kind of people would allow that to happen?  It was not an accident that the Lusitania was in those waters.  

 

Also the sinking of the Lusitania occurred May 7, 1915, while we declared war on April 16.1917.  In those two years we pressured and persuaded Berlin to restrict submarine warfare, attempted to negotiate "Peace without victory", Berlin resuming unrestricted sub warfare (Jan 31, 1917).

 

In terms of responsibility everyone had selfish motives in the first world war (even us to a degree) our intention was stated to "make the world safe for democracy" and to fight a "war to end war".

 

As to WWI Part II...it was the consequences of a harsh Treaty of Versailles imposed upon the Central Powers (mainly Germany) that helped fuel Hitler's madness and his campaign of world domination.  In a way we are to blame for WWII.

 

"More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars"

                                                                                                              -FDR

 

                                                                           Morgan "War, what is it good for..." Marmitt