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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (188167)	6/2/2006 9:10:19 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

"WWII was self-defense -- of that there is no doubt How do you figure that? Germany never attacked us" Germany declared war on us (first) on December 11th. From that point on, it was national self-defense. yale.edu Then Roosevelt responded.. law.ou.edu

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (188167)	6/3/2006 3:57:15 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

"WWII was self-defense -- of that there is no doubt How do you figure that? Germany never attacked us." Read a history book.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (188167)	6/4/2006 12:29:21 PM
From: John Soileau	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<WWII was self-defense -- of that there is no doubt How do you figure that? Germany never attacked us.>> Nadine, WWII was for us a war of self-defense, no matter how many times it is denied. Germany had been playing cat and mouse with Atlantic merchant shipping for several years; Germany outright declared war on us before we entered the battle; and don't forget that Germany and Japan were Tripartite Pact military allies from September 1940 on. So BEFORE we declared war on and attacked Germany, 1) Pearl Harbor was brutally bombed by Japan, Germany's formal war ally; 2) Germany had delivered notice to our president that Germany was in a state of war with us; and 3) German U-boats had sunk many hundreds of merchant shipping vessels in the Atlantic. Gee, I think after all that it was time for us to go defend ourselves. You seriously disagree?