From: Adam Flinton 

Jeff Shultz wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:14:58 -0500, Geo wrote:
>
>
>>"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
>>news:41bd931b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>
>>>>>I was offended by his comment about how we "go to
war with the army we
>>>>>have, not the army we wish we had".  I'm glad he
wasn't the Secretary
>>>>>of Defense during WWII.  At least then we had the good
sense to tool
>>>>>up before going to war, instead of just rushing into it
with what we
>>>>>had.
>>
>>>>How did we tool up before war after pearl harbor?
>>
>>>Before PH there were no "War powers".
>>>
>>>Afterwards, you could turn to Ford & say "sod cars,
build tanks".
>>
>>Seems to me we were building lots of tanks and planes prior to PH, in fact
>>isn't that why PH happened?
>>
>>Geo.
>
>
> No, PH happened because of America's political and economic response to
> Japanese expansionism.
>
> We didn't build very good tanks and planes prior to PH either... we
> learned about building good planes fairly quickly, but good tanks took
> somewhat longer (the M4 Sherman was _not_ a good tank).
>
>

bloody easy to make though & a great tank when the other guy ain't got
one 

Adam

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