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Splinx — (archived)

Perhaps, but as your link on the Lusitania notes, "The lost (sic) of the Lusitania provoked great outrage in the United States and helped create the climate of public opinion that would later allow America to join the war."

Apparently the Lusitania was carrying munitions, in violation of our declared neutrality, and it was this fact which provoked the Germans into attacking. I've seen a report which indicates that the Germans had attempted to place advertisements in 50 American newspapers warning prospective passangers against travelling on her, but the ads were suppressed in all but a Des Moines paper.

I didn't mention Korea in my earlier post, but there is some evidence of hanky panky there, too, in the form of Dean Achison's infamous 1950 speech wherein he neglected to mention S. Korea when describing American defense comittments.

Shades of Kuwait.

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