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ClutterFreak <ClutterFreak@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Jul 2016 17:14:39 -0000,
> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
> 
>> ClutterFreak <ClutterFreak@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 5 Jul 2016 23:45:21 -0000,
>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>> 
>>>> ClutterFreak <ClutterFreak@fakeaddress.com> wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 4 Jul 2016 18:07:56 -0000,
>>>>> jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well, I don't recall him saying anything about the sinking of the Lusitania,
>>>>>> but if it does I'm sure it will include "it was all a gummint (sic) plot".
>>>>> 
>>>>> How do you explain the second explosion?
>>>> 
>>>> Maybe some of the tons of war munitions that were on the ship's manifest. 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I suppose you think they packed all that in the
>>> passenger ship right after German embassy in U.S. had
>>> advertised, in the same page where the ship had
>>> advertised, that this ship will be the subject of
>>> attack by Germany in the war zone around England. 
>> 
>> It was recorded in the ship's manifest as well as US Customs documents,
>> you babbling twit.
>> 
> 
> So 2000 civilians chose that ship to cross Atlantic
> knowing it carried armaments and Germans want to
> destroy it?

Yep; stupid weren't they?

As Britain and Germany were at war and Germany was blockading Britain 
and the ship, like most ships of the day, was both a passenger ship and
a cargo ship, and the ship was British and had been fitted with 6 inch 
gun mounts since 1913, what would you think a German submarine would do
if they spotted the ship?


-- 
Jim Pennino

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