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Pearl\u00a0Harbor was a limited air strike with no boots on the ground.\u00a0 Therefore not an act of war.<\/p>\n

Come to think of it, so was 9\/11.\u00a0 Sure there were civilian casualities.\u00a0 But what we learned from our own harvest of\u00a0116,000 Iraqi civilian casualties <\/a>and\u00a0a skyrocketing Iraqi\u00a0 birth defect rate due to our gift of depleted uranium<\/a>\u00a0is that\u00a0civilian casualties are something to shrug off when you are Sending a\u00a0Message\u00a0or working for the Greater Good.\u00a0 It\u2019s so *good* to see the US and her \u201cenemies\u201d thinking in exactly the same way.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"