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To: Solon who wrote (41677)	11/22/2005 2:49:27 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) of 90947

They had passed the Neutrality Act to allow Cash-and-carry (the supplying of arms and munitions to Britain and France by American Companies for profit. They did not supply troops to the Alliance, although one does not doubt that individuals joined the effort on their own. Hmmm. Down here the gov't cannot legally force a private company to give away its product. Maybe you do it differently. I have seen it stated that the US cash-and-carry program was itself an act of war. However, there seems to be no international legal defintion of "act of war" or "neutrality" that I have found, so this is in limbo. Wanting an excuse to break the Isolationist hopes of the public, and actively engaging in provocation is not the same as assaulting beaches which they were to do often in the Pacific Theatre. I thought you favored democracy? Are you a Bushite now? You think the gov't has the right to go to war whenever it chooses? "Roosevelt's "shoot on sight" order regarding German subs?" But that was more than 2 years after the War began, wasn't it? It was before formal American entry into the war. And, as the Germans correctly noted, it was an act of war. "Hitler probably issued that fatuitous declaration of war just so he could shoot back in a war already under way" Let us call it the way it was! The U.S. was violating International Law by engaging (some 2 years after the War began) in the seizure and destruction of German Ships. You can't have one side with hands tied while you engage in acts of war! Have you switched sides? That's precisely my point! The US gov't was (illegally) waging war on Germany without a declaration of war by Congress! You ought to have DECLARED War, but you are forgiven! You got in and we're glad you did! But again--the order to engage in Acts of sabotage came more than 2 years after the war began! Oh, thank you, thank you! In case you haven't noticed, WE ARE NO LONGER BRITISH SUBJECTS! We settled this question at gunpoint in the late 1700's. Britain gong to war does nor drag us in. (Nor does it you either, interestingly enough. We've already been over "pick and choose".)

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