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Mike Snodgrass <mdssail-at-yahoo.com> |
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Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS] |
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Date: |
Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:27:59 -0800 (PST) |
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tanks-at-rctankcombat.com |
Is this "SPAM"?????
--- Marmfam3-at-aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
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