Except that the US declared war on Japan only.  Germany and Italy
declared war on the US after that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Horst Hinz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:14 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: RE: FW: NewYork Terrorist Attack
> 
> 
> OK, I don't want to get into a huge debate or anything, but 
> if I remember my history correctly, America was sitting out 
> WWII until Pearl Harbour.  Sure they provided equipment to 
> the British, but Europe was on it's own until someone hit the 
> US and THEIR security was threatened.  So in effect, America 
> was fighting for itself as well.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Woody [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2001 8:01 AM
> To: NT System Admin Issues
> Subject: Re: FW: NewYork Terrorist Attack
> 
> 
> >> We all won the war...
> >> The Allies. Their decendants. Those of us here.
> >> We all lost people in WWII.
> 
> The point being here that until America entered into the 
> fray, it was not boding well for ALL of Europe.  Numerous 
> countries were defeated and had already surrendered.  Yes, we 
> all won the war, but we all weren't responsible for that win 
> as many of the "teams" had already left the playing field.  
> And it obviously wasn't going well before America got 
> involved. This goes back to the point that America does care 
> about it's "neighbors". "We all won the war..." seems a 
> little flippant and not in understanding with what was going 
> on at the time.  I can tell you that we WEREN'T all winning 
> the war until America came over and gave it's kids for 
> foreign soil. Europeans were fighting to protect themselves.  
> Americans were fighting for Europeans, our "neighbors".  To 
> now say that we wouldn't care if this (the terrorist attack) 
> had happened anywhere in the world  is just silly.
> 
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