Re: US med. industry are ripp-off compared to Europen system

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gretchen Evans  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 29 Nov 2003 16:57:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DWood78828) wrote:

>>>Subject: Re: US med. industry are ripp-off compared to Europen system
>>>From: Gretchen Evans

>>>And what of the massive amount of aid sent eastward prior to our being
>>>attacked on Dec. 7th?  Was that just a warm-up?

>>I'm not sured what you mean by massive amounts of aid.  We had cut off Japans
>>access to our iron.

This was cut off long before.

         And it had a negative impact on their economy. And they
>>viewed tat as an attack against them. One of the reasons given for their attack
>>was they were afraid we were going to attack them because of the invastion of
>>southeast Asia.  They decided to attack our navy as a way of devirting our
>>attention.

Very doubtful.  Even an idiot of a politician would have
known that the US would have to be attacked before taking
any action.  The US Navy was quite formidable, but the Army
was almost nonexistent.

>Lend Lease to England: providing a number of our naval vessels for
>their use; establishing armed convoys covering a portion of the sail
>to England.. All took place before Dec. 7th, 1941. 

It was a major job for Roosevelt to get this through; it
had only been a few years since legislation had been passed
prohibiting the sale of military equipment by the US.  The
country was very strongly isolationist.

This is not from a history book.


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