From: Tony Mugno (amugno@charter.net)
Date: Fri Oct 07 2005 - 09:15:08 PDT
Hate to bust your bubble but Spain was hardly neutral in WWII. Officially
----- Original Message -----
neutral maybe but realistically very pro NAZI
From: <bolton8@juno.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 10:29 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] Sinking of battleship Maine
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2005 milveh@dslextreme.com> writes:
>>
>> Just think, if we had not followed up by declaring war there's a good
> chance
>> Spain would still own Cuba, then we would have never had a Cuban
> missile
>> crisis and Fidel might be running a pedicab in Havana or working Ho's
> on the
>> Esplanade!
>>
>
> Neither would we have had a US presence in Guantanamo Bay, nor Camp
> X-ray.
> So where would we now sequester Al Qaida detainee's?
>
> Which also means that Admiral Dewey would not have defeated the Spanish
> Fleet at Manila Bay in 1898, leaving the Philippine Islands under control
> of Spain. Spain, under Generalissimo Franco, was neutral during World
> War II. Which opens the question: Would the Japanese Imperial Army have
> invaded territory not only belonging to a neutral country, but to a
> personal friend of Hitler? And what would General Mac Arthur have
> returned too?
>
> This is something better debated on the Harry Turtledove web site.
>
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