[danielmryan]

You're certainly entitled to your opinion, sirs; all viewpoints concerning this issue are, from my perspective, valid ones. Let the debate be free as air; marshal your facts as ye may; let the free and open exchange of ideas bring ye to an acceptable conclusion.

Do ye want to know why I speak with such words? Simple: I'm a Canadian. Not involved one way or the other.

- Cheers!

[infowarrior]

As you saw from my post, my facts were already marshaled. (additional fact, I saw a History Channel segment on the Yamamoto assassination just last night. This provided me with the data of the name WE used for the compromised Japanese Imperial Navy code, that being JN-25).

The IJN had updated that same code circa early 1943, suspecting we may have cracked a portion of it, after their debacle at Midway. Fortune, or if you will, Divine Providence intervened when a New Zealand destroyer attacked and destroyed a Japanese submarine in the waters near Guadalcanal (by ramming it, no less!) Part of the debris that surfaced was a copy of the updated cyphers for the JN-25 code which had been previously compromised. The Allies, after this stroke of fortune, had it all....

the infowarrior