Comforting an old friend

BillM

Yes...it must have been an Englishman taking the poll.

Next.

stevebaby

The Gallup poll is an American organisation,named after George Gallup,an American statistician.

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BillM

So they have a policy about not hiring Englishmen? Could you link me to that?

BillM

Steve...still waiting.

stevebaby

You really are getting sillier and sillier!

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Wurm

Getting?

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stevebaby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish-American_War
Spanish-American War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United...eracruz%2C_1914
United States occupation of Veracruz, 1914 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine-American_War
Philippine-American War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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BillM

BAHHAHAHAHAA

The fact that those are your Top 3....speaks volumes.

Shut up.

davidmc

Yes. What is up w/ the constant drum beat of bitterness from him

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davidmc

The phillipines should not have been seperated from the spanish/american war. That shortens his list to two America bashing seems to be a popular sport. I said it before & I'll say it again-"Its not easy being the worlds policeman." Do we make mistakes Yes. Who will step up to the plate if we don't No one

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thebluetrain

Simple. He knows he's wrong so he is bitter. Welching on a bet is like shooting someone in the back. There are things in life that "real men" dont do, and one of them is welching on a bet.

stevebaby

Actually,they are not "the top three".They are a response to a specific request...for evidence and dates of the wars initiated by the US against "Spain,Mexico...the Phillippines."There are ,of course,many more examples contained in the original link (which you have been unable to refute).
Again,show me where any other country has a record which comes anywhere near the list in the original link.
So far,your only "argument has been..."shut up".Very obviously,you are ill-equipped for any sort of debate or reasoned argument. You don't have the education or intelligence for it,do you?

Come on,loudmouth. Come up with the goods...the attempt will fail,of course,but you will provide a bit of entertainment for us.You'll embarrass yourself,naturally,but I'm sure you have had a whole lifetime of embarrassment and humiliation and you're probably accustomed to it by now.

Come on...show us what you're made of.Come up with something that has a little more intellectual substance than..... "shut up".

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stevebaby

They are in fact,separate conflicts.The first was fought against Spain and led the US government of the day to think they had some claim over the Phillippines.The second was fought against the Phillippines Army which was commanded and manned by Filipinos in defence of their own country.
Right throughout the nineteenth century,American ships and troops were making incursions into the Pacific Islands,Asia ,and Central and South America. The Monroe doctrine was completely against the beliefs of the founding fathers of the United States,who were opposed to a standing army or naval forces larger than necessary for the coastal defence of the Continental United States.

The thing about "being the world's policeman" is that policemen are appointed by a community to enforce the laws of that community....and they are accountable to that community if they get it wrong.The correct word for self-appointed enforcers accountable to nobody but themselves is "gangster",the word Major-General Smedley Butler used to describe his activities as the most decorated American soldier of the early twentieth century,on behalf of Wall Street and American big business.
Who is the US accountable to?
The US won't join the International Criminal Court on the grounds that its own military will be held accountable.The US refused to allow the ICC to try Saddam Hussein for "crimes against humanity".Instead,they set up a kangaroo court where the verdict would be a foregone conclusion.Surely,if Hussein was accused of crimes against the whole of humanity,then the whole of the world should have tried him via the ICC in the Hague? The Nuremburg trials were an international affair,on the grounds of procedural fairness and because the accused were charged with crimes that affected other nations.
Note,the prisoners in the dock at Nuremburg were charged with..."Waging aggressive war". Anyone who cares to do a bit of research will soon see how WW2 started.It started with the Nazis deciding to attack Poland,then staging an incident on spurious grounds with concocted evidence, to order a general attack.
Sound familiar?

IIRC,it was Thomas Jefferson who warned against "foreign entanglements". The warning has been forgotten.

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stevebaby

Getting reeeealy ridiculous with that one!

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