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apocalypsehow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-12-11 03:45 PM
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38. And "guess what" (Sic), there have been many acts of War committed over the centuries that didn't
Edited on Wed Oct-12-11 03:46 PM by apocalypsehow
result in an actual declaration of War by the nation against which the act was perpetuated, so your semantics game is really a meaningless attempt to deflect from the irrefutable truth of my initial assertion to your dubious OP. The instances run the gamut from the impressment of American merchant sailors by the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars to the seizing of the American embassy in Iran in 1979 - and a ton of examples in between.

To get down to seventh grade logic exercises, which is where you have taken this conversation: just because a party commits an act that could call for a lawful response doesn't always mean that the opposing party must commit to carrying out that lawful response.

But, that was your intent all along, wasn't it? To obfuscate, and dodge behind semantics. Which tells me the discussion has concluded, as far as factual repartee between us, and in my favor. Hence, the discussion is concluded: have a great afternoon.

Edit: typo.
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