Rush Limbaugh LIVE Thread - Wednesday, Dec. 7th

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[MNJohnnie]

Pearl Harbor Raid, 7 December 1941

The 7 December 1941 Japanese raid on Pearl Harbor was one of the great defining moments in history. A single carefully-planned and well-executed stroke removed the United States Navy's battleship force as a possible threat to the Japanese Empire's southward expansion. America, unprepared and now considerably weakened, was abruptly brought into the Second World War as a full combatant.

Eighteen months earlier, President Franklin D. Roosevelt had transferred the United States Fleet to Pearl Harbor as a presumed deterrent to Japanese agression. The Japanese military, deeply engaged in the seemingly endless war it had started against China in mid-1937, badly needed oil and other raw materials. Commercial access to these was gradually curtailed as the conquests continued. In July 1941 the Western powers effectively halted trade with Japan. From then on, as the desperate Japanese schemed to seize the oil and mineral-rich East Indies and Southeast Asia, a Pacific war was virtually inevitable.

By late November 1941, with peace negotiations clearly approaching an end, informed U.S. officials (and they were well-informed, they believed, through an ability to read Japan's diplomatic codes) fully expected a Japanese attack into the Indies, Malaya and probably the Philippines. Completely unanticipated was the prospect that Japan would attack east, as well.

The U.S. Fleet's Pearl Harbor base was reachable by an aircraft carrier force, and the Japanese Navy secretly sent one across the Pacific with greater aerial striking power than had ever been seen on the World's oceans. Its planes hit just before 8AM on 7 December. Within a short time five of eight battleships at Pearl Harbor were sunk or sinking, with the rest damaged. Several other ships and most Hawaii-based combat planes were also knocked out and over 2400 Americans were dead. Soon after, Japanese planes eliminated much of the American air force in the Philippines, and a Japanese Army was ashore in Malaya.

[MNJohnnie]

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[MNJohnnie]

Hold on to your hats boys and girls. If the Morning Update is any thing to go by, Rush is going to be ON FIRE today. Unfortunately, I have family obligations today. Let me know if it is worth going to the archives to hear ok? See ya tomorrow!

[Mears]

I remember the day as if it were yesterday. We are at my aunt's house for Sunday dinner and all the adults were talking about it."This means war"etc.

My cousin and I were concerned that Christmas would be cancelled. We were 9 years old.

[TheForceOfOne]

I wonder if Rush will talk about this today....

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=12031

EXCLUSIVE: NEW REPORT ON IRAN'S SECRET NUCLEAR PLANS

The Media Line has obtained a report by a leading Iranian opposition group detailing what it says is Tehran’s nuclear-weapons program over the last 20 years.

The document speaks of some 400 scientists working to create nuclear weapons, the theft of blueprints from other countries, the employment of former Soviet nuclear scientists and the building and testing of materials connected to the weapons’ processing.

The full details are available on a video produced exclusively by The Media Line.

[johnny7]

...but 9/11 managed to eclipse it. Fortunately, America was made of better cloth back then.

[YouPosting2Me]

Have a donut... relax.

[finnman69]

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

My Brother in law was on the USS New Orleans during Pearl Harbor. This was the Ship where the Chaplain said these great words "Praise the LORD and Pass the Ammunition".

This Great Ship was hit by a torpedo later in the war.
The entire bow was blown off between the first and second turrets. they were able to back the Ship onto an atoll where they made a new bow with scrap and palm trees.
This allowed the Ship to make it to Australia at half speed.
As they were putting on a new bow, He was transferred to the USS Laws.
Don Stroud was my brother in law and he passed away last year.

[Primetimedonna]

Thanks for the ping! In lurkin and workin mode as sono would say!

[jdm]

WABC Autolaunch:

http://wmc1.liquidviewer.net/wabc

[squarebarb]

Thanks for the heads-up. I usually listen but was going to town today, now I'll stick around and see what's happening.

[Txsleuth]

Yeppers, cannot wait to hear Rush's take on Dave Wade's statement about Rush and Mehlman...

[michigander]

This is going to be good!

[A.Hun]

Dough nut eating Rush Limbaugh! I bet Rush is gonna be wild!!

Dean's comments have really created a firestorm, all bad, for the Democrats!!!

Bwahahahah

[A.Hun]

My condolences, but your brother in law and all the "greatest generation" earned this nation's undying respect.

What a legacy!

[lysie]

Thanks. I'm here.

[b4its2late]

And I have to be in a meeting from 1 to 3, so I'll have to archive listen too.....

[sono]

Here ... work n lurk mode ON

[AliVeritas]

Zarqawi and People’s War
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=5056

Ramsey Clark, betrayer
Judith Klinghoffer reminds us what a cold-hearted ambitious man Ramsey Clark really is, to the extent of forcing his father’s resignation from the Supreme Court in order to (temporarily) advance his own career.
http://www.americanthinker.com/comments.php?comments_id=3841

Israel wiped off the map at the UN
on UN 'Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,' November 29, 2005
http://www.eyeontheun.org/