[Healeys] Friday Funnies

[WILLIAM B LAWRENCE]

But the Imperial Japanese Army didn't have anything to do with Pearl Harbor. 
We should have sent FBI agents to Tokyo and demanded that Yamamoto be handed 
over. All it takes is a little diplomacy, Right? Then we could have spent 
years haggling over where and how to try him, whether he had rights under 
Geneva even though Japan never signed, whether it would damage our national 
soul or "standing in the world" if we executed him etc. In the end we would 
have settled on us as the root cause of his rage and acquitted him so he 
could come back and do it again. We would have paid reparations 
to...uh...somebody, apologized to the Emperor's mistress and ended up 
driving Japanese cars....Oh wait!

Bill Lawrence

>From: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald at gmail.com>
>To: "WILLIAM B LAWRENCE" <ynotink at msn.com>
>CC: bspidell at comcast.net, mikebn2 at win.net, WABORJA at aol.com, 
>healeys at autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: [Healeys] Friday Funnies
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:06:46 -0700
>
>This has got to be a late Friday funny, right?  Why did the US attack the
>Solomons?  Gee do you think the fact that they had been occupied by the
>Imperial Japanese Army had anything to do with it?
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands_campaign
>So why did the allies attack North Africa?  Gee i don't know any reason
>other than it was full of German soldiers and tanks.
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_African_Campaign