From: Jeff Shultz 

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).

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