http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020829/ap_wo_en_po/japan_pearl_harbor_submarine_2
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020829/ap_on_re_us/pearl_harbor_submarine_5

we may have fired the first shot, but that doesn't mean we started the war!

the japanese aircraft used in the attack on pearl harbor were launched far longer then an hour before they started straffing and bombing our ships, sailors and civilians. to suggest that they wouldn't have attacked (as many of them didn't have the fuel to return "home") is rediculous... just as it is to state that we "started" the war... fuck, we avoided that war for YEARS.