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Tue Dec-07-04 07:17 PM
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...the lusitania was the excuse the war party in US congress had to involve the US in the 1st world war.
Lusitania was sunk in 1915. We didn't enter the war until two years later.
After the Lusitania was sunk we warned the Germans to knock it off and they did for a time.
The impetus to get us into WW1 was the German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare in 1917 and the outrage caused by the interception of the Zimmerman Telegram.
That would appear to me to be a legitimate casus belli not "an excuse".
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