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13. The bunny is gone, all that remains is the fine chapeau

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #8)

Thu Mar 7, 2013, 01:28 PM

Mar 2013

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Can you imagine if FDR decided not to bother avenging Pearl Harbor? [View all] graham4anything Mar 2013 OP

Where's this going? And is "republican" a typo? Scuba Mar 2013 #1

Freudian me thinks whatchamacallit Mar 2013 #2

"Avenging?" Are we superheroes in this scenario, or Old Testament patriarchs? Romulox Mar 2013 #3

Only the looniest of loons would be against retaliation after the Pearl Harbor attack. nt Comrade_McKenzie Mar 2013 #4

One Congresswoman was against it... and she was no loon: Cooley Hurd Mar 2013 #12

What is this theKed Mar 2013 #5

REAL PEOPLE DIED ON 9-11. And America went Bankrupt because of it graham4anything Mar 2013 #7

Dude. Take a breath theKed Mar 2013 #9

Didn't the people who voted for Ralph Nader think about what they were doing? graham4anything Mar 2013 #11

What are you going off at, here? theKed Mar 2013 #15

This is incoherent rambling. Ooga Booga 911 Ooga Nader! Blaargh! morningfog Mar 2013 #21

. Guy Whitey Corngood Mar 2013 #26

This guy's posts are usually nonsensical rants. white_wolf Mar 2013 #39

Or, John Wilkes Booth deciding not to avenge Appomattox? Tierra_y_Libertad Mar 2013 #6

Who has the picture of the bunny with a pancake on its head? NightWatcher Mar 2013 #8

The bunny is gone, all that remains is the fine chapeau Brother Buzz Mar 2013 #13

The most important question in this thread is jsr Mar 2013 #23

He's a she, and we had to retire the Three Second Rule Brother Buzz Mar 2013 #25

If the Revolutionary War had never been fought, the US would still have become independent, Nye Bevan Mar 2013 #10

answer olddots Mar 2013 #14

What the fuck are you talking about? morningfog Mar 2013 #16

Picture an insane octopus whatchamacallit Mar 2013 #18

I'm rather at a loss to understand myself. apocalypsehow Mar 2013 #42

FDR would never have let the Germans get away with that AngryAmish Mar 2013 #17

if the us hadnt thrown a blockade around japan we might not have had a pearl harbor leftyohiolib Mar 2013 #19

We did not blockade Japan. We stopped trading with them because they were using our steel and oil pampango Mar 2013 #20

Well that's not true. Bonobo Mar 2013 #30

So the US refusing to sell our own oil to Japan was "basically an act of war". pampango Mar 2013 #34

This message was self-deleted by its author Bonobo Mar 2013 #35

Even FDR acknowledged it was tantamount to an act of war. Bonobo Mar 2013 #36

Japan would not have invaded the Dutch East Indies for the oil if not for our embargo? pampango Mar 2013 #47

Well, I can imagine if he had decided to avenge Pearl Harbor by attacking madinmaryland Mar 2013 #22

Dutch East Indies, historically challenged one. El Supremo Mar 2013 #27

Dude! You have been reading Harry Turtledove again? Nipponese?? madinmaryland Mar 2013 #29

I did that for your Anglophiled benefit. El Supremo Mar 2013 #33

Mrs Peel, we're needed Fumesucker Mar 2013 #24

I had an interesting thought the other day for a sci-fi novel... Bonobo Mar 2013 #28

i'm sure it will fly off the shelves in korea, china arely staircase Mar 2013 #38

Yes and what was Japanese imperialism a patriotic reaction to? Bonobo Mar 2013 #41

you answer your own question arely staircase Mar 2013 #44

Yup, that was what they thought they needed to do to be on an equal footing with the West. Bonobo Mar 2013 #45

"A pound of foolishness". Egalitarian Thug Mar 2013 #31

"bullet free streets in America..." Absolutely DELUSIONAL. Is there a word BEYOND delusion? cherokeeprogressive Mar 2013 #32

There could be a zillion guns. But I am working toward a bullet free America. graham4anything Mar 2013 #46

"Can you imagine if FDR decided not to bother avenging Pearl Harbor?" ThomThom Mar 2013 #37

Avengers Assemble! white_wolf Mar 2013 #40

The Onion just keeps getting better cthulu2016 Mar 2013 #43

Suppose they gave a war and noone came? LWolf Mar 2013 #48