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From: alan@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Alan Algustyniak)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Unarmed forces
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Date: Mon, 9-Apr-84 16:13:03 EST
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Posted: Mon Apr  9 16:13:03 1984
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*<invasion - to enter for conquest or plunder >

Thanks to the intelligence of the average reporter, and the bias of the
average Liberal, the term 'invasion' is losing its strict definition. I
don't know quite how you are using it, but, at any rate, you seem to have
overlooked a few incidents from WWII.

1) The Japanese launched many balloon incindiary bombs at America. Many
of them reached the US and had their intended immediate effect, that of
starting forest fires. They did not cause the panic the Japanese had hoped
for, due to a successful coverup of the fact that this was happening.

2) The Germans sent their submarines into US waters along the East Coast
in order to sabotage shipping.  The book 'Iron Coffins' was written by a
U-boat commander. He tells of going up the Chesapeake Bay and surfacing
at night.

3) Teams of Germans were dropped onto US soil in order to carry out
sabotage missions.

	This is not a real critizism of the original letter, but the
opportunity to bring these fact to public attention.