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Originally posted by yellowline
Uhh, how do the Zimmerman telegram, the Lusitania sinking, Pearl Harbor, or continuing Kennedy's course of action tie into personal vendetta, profiteering, or bad intelligence?
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Profiteering should be obvious since it's occured with every war I mentioned.
Further, the questionable Zimmermann Telegram was the height of war propaganda, only a complete idiot would consider Germany's ability to give Texas to Mexico as something other than severe hyperbole. that is to say, there was no method by which that could have been accomplished.
As an aside, there was no
bad intelligence that lead Bush II to invade Iraq, only fraudulent intellegence which was also the case with the Lusitania. That ship was in fact carrying war materials to Britain.