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To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (99940)	6/3/2003 6:44:19 AM
From: Noel de Leon	Respond to of 281500

"<George Washington a terrorist? Balderdash!> What do you call a military campaign, designed and carried out, not to defeat an enemy army, but to cause starvation by destroying all food and food-production in the enemy nation, burn all housing, and drive off the entire civilian population? If not "terrorist", would you prefer "ethnic cleansing"?" When I was young I never learned anything of importance about the history of the Native Americans from the public school system. I don't suppose that has changed very much.

To: Jacob Snyder who wrote (99940)	6/3/2003 11:36:27 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

I don't call it terrorism nor do I call it ethnic cleansing. Nor does any responsible historian, because it was neither. Not terrorism because the goal wasn't terror. The male Indians were fair targets, and had already initiated attack against the American rebels, having been bribed by the Brits, and warned by the Americans. Destroying their food and shelter forced the Brits to take them in. If you read up on the history of the Wyoming Massacre and the Cherry Valley Massacre, you know it was turnabout for what the Indians had done to the Americans. When you actually study the history of things, you may not like what you learn but please don't lie about it. The Americans admired the Iroquois and used their constitution as one of the sources of the US constitution.