"Jessica Taylor" wrote in message
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Gary Drescher wrote:

"Jessica Taylor" wrote in message
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When Pearl Harbor was attacked, did the USA just find Japan, and
hunt them down and forget about anything else? No! We did realize
that
there
were other threats out there, and we better start to deal with them,
hastily.
And actually the USA defended Europe from Nazi Germany and their
friends
in
Italy, Albania, etc. first.

But only after Japan's ally Germany declared war on the US immediately
after
Pearl Harbor. Iraq did not declare war on the US after Sept. 11 (and Iraq
had no alliance with al Qaeda; in fact, they were mutual enemies). Being
attacked by one party does not automatically entitle you to wage war on
other parties of your choice.

So you're saying that we only went to war with Germany b/c they declared
war on
USA? So if they had NOT formerly declared war on USA we wouldn't have
gone to
war with Germany or that we weren't "entitled?" Good luck advancing that
story.

There extensive alliance with Japan might have sufficed. But there was no
alliance between al Qaeda and Iraq; if anything, they were enemies.

--Gary