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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
Message-ID: <1313@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 17:40:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1313
Posted: Mon Sep 16 17:40:30 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 06:43:29 EDT
References: <91@decwrl.UUCP> <7800426@inmet.UUCP>
Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
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In article <7800426@inmet.UUCP> porges@inmet.UUCP writes:
>	Not only was Pearl Harbor a (mostly) military target, but in 1941
>Hawaii was not officially part of the United States, being rather a 
>territory that the US captured in the Spanish-American War, a war that
>is not currently considered one of our most moral moments.  Furthermore,
>fewer people were killed in the sneak attack on the fleet than would
>have been killed if those same ships had been sunk at sea, since most
>of the crew members weren't on the ships but ashore.  Not that I exactly
>take the side of the Japanese in WWII...


Hawaii was not captured in the Spanish-American war, since it never belonged to
Spain.  Rather, it was annexed by the United States after the overthrow of the
monarchy there by U.S. pinaple and sugar interests (most notable Sanford B.
Dole).
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