So every other time they have used their military to bang Johnny Foreigner's[1] heads together has been without Congressional approval. This is perfectly acceptable to the powers that be in Washington.
[1] Or the Johnny Reb - Billy Yank business of 1861-65. Also the various wars against the native peoples that had the misfortune to live within the borders that the US claimed.
]]>The Japanese were the ones who declared war on the USA on 7th December 1941 (even if the bombs fell before the Japanese Embassy delivered its decoded message); and the Germans and Italians declared war on the USA on 11th December.
Granted, the US Navy and Kriegsmarine had been shooting at each other for few months by then... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Reuben_James_(DD-245) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Happy_Time
]]>The US declared war in five separate wars (as listed above). However, in WWI the US declared war upon Germany and Austria-Hungary, but not Bulgaria (although Bulgaria was allied to Germany).
In WWII the US declared war upon Japan, Germany, Italy, Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania, but not Finland (although Finland was allied to Germany at the time).
]]>And not just because if we go down the tubes, one of the biggest blocks to keeping you all from going the same way will be removed.
Everyone here on this thread should go out right now and buy a subscription. Right now.
]]>Maybe we are talking past each other ... however, even though a crime is considered a federal capital offense, the punishment depends on the state in which the offender is tried/found guilty.
What I was getting at is that Congress specifically revoked the death penalty for DC some years back - this is a blanket 'no death sentence', period.
]]>Japan declared war on the USA on 7th December 1941; the USA responded by declaring war on Japan on 8th December.
German and Italy each declared war on the USA on the 11th December 1941; the USA responded by declaring war a few hours later.
;) ;) Only two years late ;) ;)
]]>Anyway, they did open up some of the older USN resources for research, under restriction; underwater volcanic eruptions and the movement of blue whales, in the examples given
http://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/technology/tools/acoustics/acoustics.html
]]>The US SOSUS system exploited the deep sound channel and could achieve long range detections, particularly against the earlier generations of Soviet submarines, which were noisy. Soviet hydroacoustic systems, because of their hydrographic situation and the quietness of US submarines, did tend to be short range and operated as local barrier systems.
http://www.public.navy.mil/subfor/underseawarfaremagazine/Issues/Archives/issue_25/sosus.htm
]]>That's the only meaning of punk, aside from the pejorative one, that I ever encountered. Actually, both together: dry rotten wood used as tinder. (USA AZ middle C20)
]]>https://woodsrunnersdiary.blogspot.com/2013/02/more-on-punk-wood.html
]]>Never have I ever heard of it being used to mean "semen". We put an S in front of it for that, and nobody ever confuses the four-letter word with the five-letter one.
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