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Old 12-07-09, 08:31 PM   #11
Torvald Von Mansee
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Originally Posted by Skybird View Post
I always ask myself 'Why?' when hearing that reference.

One could ask whether or not it was a clever decision to go to war. But to hold somebody else responsible for one's own fault to be too sleepy while the other already was executing with determination and had managed to hide the attack, is simply stupid.
Um, it's one of the opening lines of Franklin D. Roosevelt's speech to Congress asking for a Declaration of War on December 8th, 1941.
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