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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


The point made was that you don't incite the nest that was beforehand doing you no harm.

The US and the UK and an assortment of European countries have an undisputed history of invading foreign countries and whacking the bejeezus out of many beehives.

Did the Indians try to take over Britain? Did the Algerians invade Paris? Did the Cherokees or Iraq attempt to overtake Washington? You've got every bit of it bass- ackwards, bud. While we're at it, Iraq or Iran would have paid good money to slug a big hit against the financial sector, but we already had a bunch of domestic (American born and raised) terrorists in our Congress that beat them to the punch.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


The point made was that you don't incite the nest that was beforehand doing you no harm.

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The US and the UK and an assortment of European countries have an undisputed history of invading foreign countries and whacking the bejeezus out of many beehives.

Did the Indians try to take over Britain? Did the Algerians invade Paris? Did the Cherokees or Iraq attempt to overtake Washington? Were any of them the initiators or instigators, in any case? You've got every bit of it bass- ackwards, bud.

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While we're at it, Iraq or Iran would have paid good money to slug a big hit against the financial sector, but we already had a bunch of domestic (American born and raised) terrorists in our Congress that beat them to the punch.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


The point made was that you don't incite the nest that was beforehand doing you no harm.

The US and the UK and an assortment of European countries have an undisputed history of invading foreign countries and whacking the bejeezus out of many beehives.

Did the Indians try to take over Britain? Did the Algerians invade Paris? Did the Cherokees or Iraq attempt to overtake Washington? Were any of them the initiators or instigators, in any case? You've got every bit of it bass- ackwards, bud. While we're at it, Iraq or Iran would have paid good money to slug a big hit against the financial sector, but we already had a bunch of domestic (American born and raised) terrorists in our Congress that beat them to the punch.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


The point made was that you don't incite the nest that was beforehand doing you no harm.

The US and the UK and an assortment of European countries have an undisputed history of invading foreign countries and whacking the bejeezus out of many beehives.

Did the Indians try to take over Britain? Did the Algerians invade Paris? Did the Cherokees or Iraq attempt to overtake Washington? Were any of them the initiators or instigators, in any case? You've got every bit of it bass- ackwards, bud. While we're at it, Iraq or Iran would have paid good money to slug a big hit against the financial sector, but we already had a bunch of domestic (American born and raised) terrorists in our Congress that beat them to the punch.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


So you are a big fan of Rome, then.

All fine and well, but then why do you and Bama keep sniveling and asking for a hankie anytime the other side bites back?

It might be that Rome should have taken more care regarding the 'barbarians,' but if they hadn't raped Boudica's daughters, the Barbarians might not have been so vehement in their efforts in the first place.

Here's the news: you just say "fuck you, we do what we want," then you cry if the other side has the temerity to say "fuck you too" right back.

Go out and "Rome" all you want, but don't come back crying when you actually get hurt.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


So you are a big fan of Rome, then.

All fine and well, but then why do you and Bama keep sniveling and asking for a hankie anytime the other side bites back?

It might be that Rome should have taken more care regarding the 'barbarians,' but if they hadn't raped Boudica's daughters, the Barbarians might not have been so vehement in their efforts in the first place.

Here's the news: you just say "fuck you, we do what we want," then you cry if the other side has the temerity to say "fuck you too" right back.

Go out and "Rome" all you want, but don't come back crying when you actually get hurt.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


It wasn't one incident, it was standard practice.

Is all the crap that Blackwater is doing in Iraq "one incident"?

Get a clue.

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ORIGINAL: Edwynn


It wasn't one incident, it was standard practice.

Is all the crap that Blackwater is doing in Iraq "one incident"?

Get a clue.

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The point being that you deal with the threat, should we have waited till there were Nazi soldiers on American soil? The Germans and Italians hadn't done anything to us and we declared war on them anyway.

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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The point being that you deal with the threat, should we have waited till there were Nazi soldiers on American soil? The Germans and Italians hadn't done anything to us and we declared war on them anyway.

Well, we actually did wait--to the deep dismay of the British--until we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. I think the Germans declared war on us first, in response to our declaring war against Japan, but I'm too tired to hit the books tonight. Not sure about Italy.

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Did the barbarian hordes attack the Roman walls? Creating the downfall of the Roman Empire?

Why yes, yes they did.

Should Rome have concentrated on the barbarians instead of internal fighting?

Why yes, yes they should have.

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Germany and Italy declared war on us on Dec 8, earlier in the day than we declared on them.

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Arab terrorists have been at war with us for nearly forty years and have done much more to us than the Germans or Italians had. They have even done more than Pearl.

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We are being told to ignore what they say and just wait till they attack, shouldn't we have done the same with Germany, after all it was a meaningless declaration of war, if we stayed out of the war zone they couldn't have come over here and harmed us. It was just words, can't go to war over that.