Pearl Harbor Attack on 12/7/41 resulted in retailiation and entering Europe's war.?

Question

What is the biggest difference between the two being that WWII had most of Americans support and Iraq has our national leaders fighting against each other and taking non supportive actions to hurt any potential we may have to succeed.

In other words, why was there war bonds and support efforts during WWII, but currently all donations are being sent to political campaigns for special interest groups to assure person wealth.

WWII there were War Bonds, and children and adults collected metal and other materials to meet the needs of our nation to build weapons and supplies. Our soldiers now need a support system to come home to, instead of donating money for health care and psych. services, billions are donated to politicial campaigns.

Answer 1

Japanese attacked Pearl and we were fighting Japanese;
Americans just don't make the connection of terrorists
and Iraq (though it's definitely there)

Answer 2

Actually if you read your history you'd know that after Pearl Harbor Germany declared war on the USA allowing the USA to enter the European war. Many high ranking Japanese officials were actually shocked by that declaration by Germany.

The problem is too many people believe that because Japan attacked the USA that Germany would automatically declare war because of “The Tripartite Pact” and Article III, which states:

“Germany, Italy and Japan agree to co-operate in their efforts on aforesaid lines. They further undertake to assist one another with all political, economic and military means when one of the three contracting powers is attacked by a power at present not involved in the European war or in the Chinese-Japanese conflict.”

The key words here are ‘is attacked by’, not if Germany, Italy or Japan attack. Such is the case when Germany attacked Russia, Japan didn’t declare war on Russia yet many think the exact same way when it comes to Germany’s declaration on the USA.

As for the difference, it’s actually something many are not looking at, hippies, and Vietnam. The so-called 'peace' movement during the Vietnam War actually has hurt the US more in the long run than anything else the US has ever faced. These are the people making influential decisions to the public, they believe that talking will always work and that no one is ever out to harm you unless you do something wrong. This thinking by intellectuals works in an ideal world, but not in the real world. People who think this way are quick to point blame at the Government, the military and corporations, but never themselves or their ideals.

Answer 3

The biggest difference I see is that in 1941 the news media did not relish the idea of bad mouthing the country. News drove the nightly radio broadcasts, not ratings, not sensationalism.

Now days, news seems to consist of two things, the entertainment world, and information about how your elected officials are screwing you. The general public bases their opinions on world events from the news papers and news broadcasts, and when they paint a very unflattering picture of the events in Iraq, it is not unbelievable that the US population will not take the same stance as that during WWII.

Arguments about the right to know only go so far, when it is obvious that the news media rarely reports on the good done by the government. There are a LOT of good things happening in Iraq that are not being reported, or are being underreported.

Answer 4

Germany and Italy declared war on the United States shortly after Pearl Harbor.

Answer 5

Japan, Germany, and Italy were allied with each other. Fighting them made sense as a response to their attack on us, and the German and Japanese invasions of other countries.

When a non-governmental group attacked us, Bush attacked Iraq, which hadn't attacked us, and wasn't taking over the entire world.

FDR didn't attack Korea in response to Japan's attack, did he?

More Americans were opposed to this war than were for it. And that was despite most Americans having bought the lies Bush and the Media had been repeating for years.

Every human being on the planet knew this was was wrong.

Clearly, it was.

Supporting it is supporting mass murder.

Answer 6

More than one half of the US population was not willing to get into WWII before Pearl Harbor.

Virtually everyone supported the decision to go into Iraq. Ever since, the Democrats have been trying to create defeat to use it as a tool to get votes in the next election.

Both were vicious sneak attacks. In both cases Americans retaliated.

Answer 7

Your wrong most Americans did not support ww2, after ww1 Americans were sick of war

Answer 8

No, the biggest difference is that Iraq did not attack the U.S.