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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:06 AM Original message |
Brief history of worst terrorist country in history: the USA |
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enigma000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:09 AM Response to Original message |
1. Article didn't mention the overthrow of the democratically |
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DS1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:11 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. hehehe |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:12 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Good question |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
34. The Nazis were not unlike the NeoCons...election by terror and fear. |
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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
2. USSR was much better |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:14 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Yeah. We're better than Stalin, so we must be ok... |
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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:15 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. US has done some really awful things |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
6. Sorry but this is just not correct... |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:21 AM Response to Reply #6 |
10. For all the squawking about DINOs and the like |
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wuushew (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:29 AM Response to Reply #10 |
16. How so? |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:43 AM Response to Reply #16 |
24. In every goddamn way |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:36 AM Response to Reply #10 |
20. It really does... |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:44 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. Exactly so.... |
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seeminer21 (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:36 AM Response to Reply #10 |
21. True |
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MrBenchley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:41 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. Exactly so... |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:32 PM Response to Reply #10 |
33. No reasonable person would blame the Democratic Party |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 06:15 PM Response to Reply #10 |
60. What you said |
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DELUSIONAL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
8. This country was founded on the blood of the Indigenous people |
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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:19 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Indigenous people stole the land from those before them |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:22 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Look up the word "indigenous"... |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
13. Still, he's right on principle. |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 12:00 PM Response to Reply #13 |
26. There is no serious scholarship that shows any proof |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 12:32 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. Well, then, |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 12:39 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Most of what you say is correct... |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:38 PM Response to Reply #30 |
35. I think, as a country, |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:58 PM Response to Reply #35 |
47. The structure of government... |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:47 PM Response to Reply #28 |
46. You cannot seriously equate "genocide" with "warfare" or even |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 03:50 PM Response to Reply #46 |
51. Well, I disagree that |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:43 PM Response to Reply #26 |
37. AND in fact most incounters, not all, were peaceful towards the Euro's... |
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mantrid (84 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:27 AM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Well I guess a lot of American Indians can rest easy in their beds tonight |
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Loonman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:29 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. So I guess I owe the Clovis people reparations |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:40 PM Response to Reply #9 |
36. Way to apologize for one of the great genocides in history. |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:46 PM Response to Reply #9 |
38. So we still should emphasize OUR culpability and nature, explains neo-cons |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 06:27 PM Response to Reply #9 |
61. Oh, give me a break |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:23 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. It's the nature of |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
39. civilization's need not resort to beastial impulses, provide a good exampl |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 03:52 PM Response to Reply #39 |
52. Would you care to rephrase |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 05:26 PM Response to Reply #52 |
56. The U.S. should avoid war crimes and be a strong ethical example... |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 05:10 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. Definitely the US |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 07:31 PM Response to Reply #57 |
64. Simple,"to whom much is given, much is expected" AND keeping what |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 08:04 PM Response to Reply #64 |
67. Please don't |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 08:51 PM Response to Reply #67 |
69. The parable pre-dates Bible, the concept is either might is right, and dog |
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Burning Water (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jan-13-06 08:57 AM Response to Reply #69 |
70. Thanks. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:30 AM Response to Reply #8 |
17. Deleted message |
Mike Daniels (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 12:34 PM Response to Reply #8 |
29. And indigenous people didn't conquer and slaughter each other? |
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Pavulon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:30 AM Response to Original message |
18. Name a country that has a "clean" history. Blah..(nt) |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 06:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
62. Switzerland? |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 07:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
65. maybe we could learn by others imperialist mistakes and avoid the crash |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
19. Lets get back to the OP... |
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seeminer21 (98 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 11:38 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Amen |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:31 PM Response to Reply #19 |
32. And somebody always jumps at the bait. |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:58 PM Response to Reply #19 |
40. Then do the intelectual exercise, ignore the title& RESPOND to the issue! |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:07 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. See my #31 below |
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qazplm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
27. good grief |
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Sparkman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:02 PM Response to Reply #27 |
41. The SLAVERY and the NATIVE PEOPLEs history with U.S. begs to differ. |
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enigma000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 03:36 PM Response to Reply #41 |
50. Record of the Great Powers - 20th century |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
31. For what it's worth, APR is an anarchist rag |
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ZapaPaine (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
43. Denial, not a river in Egypt... |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:36 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Welcome to DU! And I agree with you right down the line. |
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ZapaPaine (139 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:58 PM Response to Reply #44 |
48. Thanks Dhalgren!! Why is it... |
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Karenina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 04:20 PM Response to Reply #48 |
53. Billions WILL DIE |
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SaveElmer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 02:39 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. The OP purposely used a flame bait topic... |
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theboss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 03:02 PM Response to Original message |
49. The British Empire wasn't exactly a model of decorum |
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DrDebug (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 04:30 PM Response to Reply #49 |
54. That's because you can't build an empire without aggression |
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enigma000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jan-11-06 04:44 PM Response to Reply #54 |
55. cuckoo-clock is German, but I loved the speech anyways |
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oblivious (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 05:24 PM Response to Reply #54 |
58. I guess it depends how we define 'success' too. |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
59. If you want to discuss |
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manic expression (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 06:35 PM Response to Reply #59 |
63. True |
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fujiyama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 07:40 PM Response to Reply #63 |
66. Agreed |
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the_spectator (932 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jan-12-06 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
68. Fascinating discussion - |
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