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To: hoosierham
"Japan had no right to other nation's resources or lands."

That is true, but we had no legal right to stop them. We declared economic war on Japan, they subsequently attacked us, and the rest is history.

I am not defending Japan, but there are too many naive folks that believe the Peal Harbor attack was unprovoked.

71 posted on 12/08/2005 11:20:09 AM PST by Buffalo Head (Illigitimi non carborundum)
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To: Buffalo Head

We didn't stop them. They were free to trade elsewhere. Attacking Pearl Harbor was not required.


72 posted on 12/08/2005 11:29:05 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Buffalo Head

The U.S. had every right to embargo U.S. goods in protest of Japanese barbarism in China;and it was in the U.S. interest that anything that could be done to limit the attempts of any group that believed its members were destined to rule all others and claimed the right to instant obedience or summary execution of the soldiers and civilians taken captive by them.


77 posted on 12/08/2005 3:46:34 PM PST by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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