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Politics : Prime Minister Jean Chretien -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcos who wrote (237)	11/27/2002 4:57:46 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 443

Oh, piffle, I don't do the research to support your claims. You made the claim; you back it up. Uh, marcos, the yanquis aren't coming. Just thought you'd want to know. UK vs. Argentina?' - UK. The population of the Falklands is almost entirely of British origin. This was nothiing but an attempt at a foreign distraction by a failing, corrupt Argentinian regime. One that blew up in their faces. Serves them right. ' USSR vs. Hungary?' - absolutely not, shameful performance out of the russians here, truly disgusting When your Commerzwaffe screws british columbian forestry, they are screwing some of those very same people the russians screwed over in 1956 .... think about that Any idea how many of those refugees ended up in the US? Think about that. ' Nicarauga vs. Costa Rica?' - it's spelled Nicaragua Oh, thank you for volunteering to be my spellchecker. ... those two had a war? No. Just continuing threats and military 'exercises' along the tico border by the peaceliving peoples of that communist nation. no one would or could attack the ticos, as they have no armed forces No, just a 'self-defense force'. With guns, mortars, .... Small, though. anybody aggresses on them and you and i will have our respective ministers of war get together and do the buggers toot sweet The US made it quite clear to the Nicaraguans that invading CR qould be a BAD mistake. 'Che vs. Bolivia?' - not fully informed, no opinion .. boliviano guvmints have been fantastically corrupt and repressive, this i have heard said ... Che had helped cubanos rid themselves of Batista et al, so that was good ... on specifics in Bolivia, no opinion Anybody is better than a communist. Yeah, Che helped install that great democrat Fidel. ' Shining Path?' - again, not sufficiently informed to judge .. they have been at times extremely brutal, as have peruano rulers, it is said Yup. Terrorists by another name. ' China vs. Vietnam?' Vietnam. Keeps China occupied. ' India vs. China?' There's a question here? India may not be much of a democracy, but it is a democracy. ' What?' - i applaud US assistance in 1918 and 1943-5, as stated above .... Just for the record, the US got into those wars in 1917 and 1941. WW1: How do you pick a side here? This was just another European power struggle. Serbian nationalists, probably with Serbian gov't backing, killed the Austrian heir. Austria demanded an investigation and that the guilty parties be turned over to them. Serbia refused. Austria declared war on Serbia. Russia, allied with Serbia, declared war on Austria. Germany, allie with Austria, declared war on Russia. And the dominoes continued falling. Wilson, an Anglophile, ached to get in on Britain's sides- -and eventually got his excuse. WW2 was clearer: Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US. The US declared war on Japan. Germany declared war on the US. Kosovo in '99 i think, all in all Uh, that's Europe's backyard. Where were they? Why did they wait for the US before they would act? Why is this the US's business at all? If they don't care, why should we? Or was this just a convenient distraction for Slick Willie's pecadilloes?