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2005-07-08 Britain

Ex-Mossad Chief Calls For World War After London Attack

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Posted by .com 2005-07-08 06:18|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 When the US entered World War Two, Congress approved the momentous decision by a majority of one vote

Does anyone teach history anymore? That's BS.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-08 14:41|| 2005-07-08 14:41|| Front Page Top

#2 Okay, slack cuttin time. He must have been thinking about the continuation of the draft law...? To prevent (one of my favorite acroms) OHIO. Over the Hill in October.

Posted by Shipman 2005-07-08 14:44|| 2005-07-08 14:44|| Front Page Top

#3 One day after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt went to Congress to ask for a declaration of war against Japan. The Senate unanimously approved the resolution 82-0, while the House of Representatives vote was 388 to 1. That one vote was from Montana Republican Jeannette Rankin. âAs a woman, I canât go to war and I refuse to send anyone else," she explained on the floor of the House after being booed and hissed at by other members of Congress .
Rankin was a lifelong pacifist whose passionate support for women's suffrage earned her the distinction of being the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1916. She served two separate terms in the House, from 1917-19 and from 1941-43. In 1917, Rankin also voted "no" to declare war on Germany during World War I. She spent her entire life working for causes that promoted peace and women's rights. In 1968 she ran the Jeannette Rankin Peace Brigade, a anti-war group, and in 1971 she continued her efforts by writing a letter to President Richard M. Nixon, asking him to end the war in Vietnam. She died two years later, at age 92.

I'm surprised the left hasn't nominated her for sainthood.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-07-08 14:51|| 2005-07-08 14:51|| Front Page Top

#4 In World War II, the fall of France in 1940 led Congress to adopt the nation's first prewar conscription act as a result of a campaign headed by old preparedness leaders. The draft was to run through 1945, but because of intense opposition from pacifists, isolationists, and others, the draftees (aged twenty-one to thirty-five) were obligated to serve only one year, and service was restricted to the Western Hemisphere and U.S. territories. In August 1941, however, Congress, by a one-vote margin (203-202) in the House, voted to keep the one-year draftees in the Army beyond their term.

Posted by Steve">Steve 2005-07-08 14:54|| 2005-07-08 14:54|| Front Page Top

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