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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (27869)	4/19/2008 8:13:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

We WERE formal 'occupiers' (under the strictures of international law...) of Germany and or Japan after the war --- as your post made absolutely clear. Yes. THEN, once we FORMALLY returned 'sovereignity' to national governments we were FORMALLY not 'occupiers' any longer If you skipped the middle part and just posted what is in italics above you would be correct. "and each new national government (in an exercise of that returned national sovereignity) contracted with us, formally granted basing rights for our forces, signed agreements about how to handle criminal violations, and laid-down new rules by which to govern the continued basing of our forces in their countries, etc., etc." All of those steps where useful, even important, but they only happened AFTER we were no longer occupying powers.