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BAN: Photography on USA trains and buses
"david.mccall" wrote in
news:Ublyc.32558$Sw.23208@attbi_s51: "Chris Phillipo" wrote in message .. . America said "It's not our war" for a full two years after Canada was in there fighing and would not have joined in at all if the Germans hadn't taken the bait of a little sacrificial lamb by the name of the Lusitania. Another war crime by an US president that went unpunished. My history book was different than yours. The US was in a very "dovish" period at the beginning of WWII. It wasn't until after they had sunk a few of our merchant marine vessels, and had their subs stationed along our coast that we decided that we had better put an end to it. I guess we must have decided that the Canadians weren't doing the job any better a job at ending the war than the Europeans were. We weren't a world power and didn't have beans for a military at that time, but we were able to build one quick. Many thousands of Ships, tanks, jeeps, airplanes, etc. The numbers are mind boggling, not only in equipment, but in trained soldiers. Very little of which even existed before we entered the war. Don't forget about all the Lend-Lease stuff we did for Britain while remaining "neutral". It wasn't really neutral behavior. I don't know about Canadians not doing a good enough job. I have no problems with how they fought. I might add that the Europeans could have handled Hitler very easily if they had gotten involved a little earlier instead of taking the same attitude that they are taking with the terrorist. "Oh he really isn't any danger to us". Boy-howdy. You hit the nail on the head here. You'd think France would know this more than anyone else! If the Allies had stood up to Germany in the mid-30's, it would have saved many lives. If a skirmish had broken out, it wouldn't have been anywhere near the size of WWII. -- Tim. "Those who give up essential liberties for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin |
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