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CrappyDom -> RE: Defeat looms for Bush and the Neo-cons (10/28/2006 7:22:42 PM)
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Popeye,
The Germans tested both their men and their equipment in the Spanish civil war, Franco would have lost if it hadn't been for German intervention. I would count Teddy and the rough riders except the Spanish American war was manufactured just like this one and so this is the only time Americans have ever volunteered in large numbers to fight for a foreign country.
You are right about the volunteers for the Flying Tigers and the Americans who fought with the Canadians and Brits but the politics of those were quite murky and in the case of Flying Tigers they were well paid, unlike the Abraham Lincoln fighters who were not and they were treated like shit upon their return to America.
Look at how many Republican presidents served compared to Democrats, sorry but liberals are at the very least well represented. Jimmy Carter who will go down in history as one of our better presidents, was a member of the silent service and they are AlWAYS at war!
I don't think Clinton was in the Reserves and sorry but you can't blast Clinton without screaming about Cheney and Bush.
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