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To: JohnM who wrote (38739)	8/19/2002 9:29:34 PM
From: Eashoa' M'sheekha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

FYI:FDR signed the declaration of war granted by Congress. ibiscom.com Word of the attack reached President Roosevelt as he lunched in his oval study on Sunday afternoon. Later, Winston Churchill called to tell him that the Japanese had also attacked British colonies in southeast Asia and that Britain would declare war the next day. Roosevelt responded that he would go before Congress the following day to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. Churchill wrote: "To have the United States at our side was to me the greatest joy. Now at this very moment I knew the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all!...Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to powder." On Monday, FDR signed the declaration of war granted by Congress. One day later both Germany and Italy, as partners of Japan in the Tripartite Pact, declared war on the US. Any Questions? <GGG> KC

To: JohnM who wrote (38739)	8/19/2002 9:38:35 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Actually, your comment prompted my question....After all, we WERE attacked on Sept 11, 2001. The President, and the Joint Congress spelled it out as well. If we have proof that Iraq has been hiding and aiding terrorists who caused this attack (and who are planning others), then I believe it is self evident and self defense to protect this country from another attack, as much as possible. Christopher Hitchens, writing in The Nation, goes back and forth with himself over the pros and cons of an invasion and, finally, concludes there is a moral obligation to insist on a public debate before anything else is done.