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From: Mike Snodgrass <mdssail-at-yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Starting to build a tank [TANKS]
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 21:27:59 -0800 (PST)
Reply-To: 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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