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To: Conservababe
President Bush doesn't plead with them

No, he just buys Kim off with food....

.....Westy.....

2,467 posted on 05/14/2004 12:29:30 PM PDT by westmex (To he!! with it all)
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To: westmex

On June 25, 1950, the North Koreans, with the tacit approval of the Soviet Union, unleashed a carefully planned attack southward across the 38th parallel. The United Nations Security Council met in emergency session and passed a resolution calling for the assistance of all UN members in halting the North Korean invasion. (The Soviet delegate, who was absent from the Security Council in protest against the UN's failure to admit the People's Republic of China, was not present to veto the council's decision.) On June 27, U.S. president Harry S. Truman, without asking Congress to declare war, ordered United States forces to come to the assistance of South Korea as part of the UN "police action."
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I didn't realize that your war was also doomed without the Declaration of War...if Congress hasn't the will to declare a war, it has never gone all that well for us.


2,470 posted on 05/14/2004 1:08:24 PM PDT by lodwick
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