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Re: A THREAT TO PEACE?
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 12 Nov 2003 09:36:25 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Harvey Henkelman wrote:
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Those same Europeans also forgot who liberated their parents, grandparents,
and great-grandparents during WWII.
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Just as those in the USA have forgotten Frances role in America gaining
independence?
The last time I looked the liberation of Europe was a combined effort by ~12
nations. The last time I looked the USA had to be dragged into Europe.
D-day would have failed without the Brits. It would of failed without the
Canadians. It would of failed without the USA. To infer the USA did it alone
when it supplied less than half the troops and when the British and Canadian
sacrifice was so huge is offensive. To say such a thing on Remembrance Day is
repugnant.
Without the Brits and Canadians D-day would have never happened, and Berlin
would have been nuked in 1945.
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They also forgot who rebuilt France,
Belgium, West Germany, and Japan as well.
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Who rebuilt Vietnam?
Scott A
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-HRH (Wishes the US would withdraw ALL foreign aid and defense agreements)
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Message is in Reply To:
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| Those same Europeans also forgot who liberated their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents during WWII. They also forgot who rebuilt France, Belgium, West Germany, and Japan as well. -HRH (Wishes the US would withdraw ALL foreign aid and (...) (21 years ago, 11-Nov-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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