Quote Originally Posted by Bruno View Post
The Americans showed up late, and only after Japan attacked them. Japan was a German Ally. The American help was extremely valuable at the time, but the motivations for joining were not selfless. The US was more than happy enough to stand aside and watch until Japan attacked pearl harbor.

Also, the concept of ally works both ways. The US wanted the French to join the invasion of Iraq under the WMD pretext.
When the French asked for proof, Bush told them they should take him at his word. In the reverse scenario, the US would never have gone ahead with that. And hindsight being 20/20, it turns out there was no proof as well.

Not true. We were giving enormous amounts of aid to the war effort and there were American volunteers fighting. We couldn't enter the war directly because isolationists wouldn't allow it.

There WERE WMD's in Iraq. There is an Iraqi General that toured the US after the war giving lectures about how he watched the WMD's being crated up and shipped to Syria. We gave them months to get it done after all.