Re: I Wrote to AARP Expressing my Outrage

"mike gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Peanutjake wrote:
> > "mike gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Wow.  You really are an idiot.  When did anyone from Iraq "attack" the
> >> > US?
> >> >
> >> > (answer for the clueless: never)
> >>
> >>
> >> No one from Nazi Germany ever attacked us, either.
> >>
> >> And we only declared war on them when the Japanese attacked.
> >>
> >> And if ya don't understand, ya really are an idiot.
> >>
> >
> > You got your history wrong mike.
> >
> > Germany and Italy declared war on the U.S. a few days after Japan attacked Pearl 
> > Harbor.
> >
>
> This thread (like most here) deals only with over-simplifications.
>
> When one delves into the complications of war, rash statements like
> "Iraq never attacked the US" become a bit blurry.
>
> On 12/5/41 Zhukov began his counteroffensive. On 12/7, Japan attacked a
> US possession. On 12/8, the US and Britain declared war on Japan,
> forming an alliance with the Chinese and the Russians including material
> support of Zhukov. Only then did the Japanese declare war on the US. As
> the US was now allied with the Russians who were counterattacking the
> Germans, Germany and Italy went through the formality of declaring war
> on the US on 12/11.
>
> Iraq has been a long time and strong supporter of Wahabism, which aims
> to overthrow all middle-eastern states, many of which are allies of the
> US. The Wahabis have attacked the US directly on at least fifteen
> occasions, and have attacked our allies a hundred times.

You've got it wrong again, Mike

The center of Wahabism in Saudi Arabia.
The government of Iraq was a secular one.

Iraq had freedom of religion in its constitution unlike Saudi Arabia where christian 
missionaries
are put in jail.

Bush is a murderer.

PJ