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To: marcos who wrote (112205)	8/21/2003 12:21:36 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi marcos; Re: "Was it fear that kept the US out of that? .... i dunno, might have been good common sense .... colonies had had their day, Algeria was clearly not France [even though the french declared it to be] .... it had been a long term colony, prosperous and well-run until then, that's true, but even de Gaulle came to realise that it was over ... the muslims had their own civil government up and running well before independence, they started it underground and they used to kill algerians who didn't swear allegiance to it, pay its taxes, obey its laws, etc ... what can you do in a case like this, remember it was not long after the french got whipped by the vietnamese, maybe they just should not be in the empire business." The whole analysis copies over exactly to Iraq. I'd bet that we begin reading about a shadow guerilla government before a year is out. Re: "Canada is ready aye ready, jumps in with both boots from day one, and the US sits back and gets rich on the conflicts for 33-month and 27-month periods." I thought that Canada was a member of the British Empire and was legally at war on the first day of WW1, at least. For example, see: Canada as a member of the British Empire was automatically at war. deltasd.bc.ca Maybe in WW2 they just forgot that they were supposed to be independent. -- Carl