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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Selectric II who wrote (32834)	10/29/2004 2:57:09 PM
From: DayTraderKidd	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 173976

Sadaam didn't attack us either nor was he an immeneant threat. Anything he could have given the terrorist they already have.... Still late??

To: Selectric II who wrote (32834)	10/29/2004 7:22:53 PM
From: shadowman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

There are some very credible sources that claim that late in the war Nazi Germany was developing intercontinental missiles that eventually would have had the capability to hit the US. I'm sure you've heard of Wernher Von Braun,. The fact that Hitler came very close to defeating Britain and Russia and would have controlled all of Europe and North Africa, if theoretically we hadn't entered the European war, doesn't seem like a threat to you? German declaration of war On December 7th, Japan attacked the United States' naval bases at Pearl Harbor. According to the stipulation of the Tripartite Pact, Nazi-Germany was required to come to the defense of her allies only if they were attacked. Since Japan had made the first move and attacked, Germany was not obligated to aid. On December 11th, Hitler entered the Reichstag to formally declare war on the United States, thus quenching that US opinion which opposed USA's engagement against the Third Reich. This declaration of war against the United States was arguably the greatest mistake made by the Third Reich - it played directly into the desires of the U.S. President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to become engaged in the defense of Great Britain, largely to preserve a staging base for the strategic air bombardment of German industrial capacity and for the eventual liberation of Europe from German domination. While the plans of the German military effort included an eventual attack directly upon the U.S., this was to be only after the consolidation of German and Italian control over all of Europe, most of Africa, and enough of the Soviet Union to give Germany an industrial and resource capacity equivalent to that of the United States. To this would be added Germany's technological and scientific capabilities — generally considered to be up to a decade in advance of that of the U. S. This would allow the creation of long range bombers, intercontinental missiles, super battleships with 24 inch guns, and perhaps even the atomic bomb. All this would ensure (in theory) that the dominion of the Third Reich would be extended to the Americas. The premature declaration of war was at a time when Germany was significantly ahead in warfighting capacity only in the limited areas of submarines and fast land based armor (tanks) — the latter largely in use against the USSR on the eastern front in Operation Barbarossa. Cruise missiles (in the form of the V-1 flying bomb) and ballistic rockets (the V-2 rocket were in active development and would soon be in production and use. In other matters of military technology the Third Reich enjoyed no special advantage. Along with the failure of Operation Barbarossa, the early awakening of the U.S. would prove to spell the eventual doom of the Third Reich — as in the war against Japan, largely due to the United States' superior industrial capacity, oceanic isolation, and the rich resources of the Americas. Without this declaration, the Third Reich might have been able to attempt and possibly win a second Battle of Britain. nationmaster.com