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To: Brumar89 who wrote (9447)	6/20/2004 4:54:41 PM
From: Elmer Flugum	Respond to of 90947

George Washington, Terrorist: 7nebo.com "George Washington set forth in 1779 on the conquest of the advanced Iroquois civilization. His goal was to "extirpate them from the Country," he wrote to Lafayette on the Fourth of July, and to expand American boundaries westward toward the Mississippi; conquest of Canada was barred by British force. The "Town destroyer," as Washington was known to the indigenous population, completed his mission successfully. The Iroquois were then informed that they would have to provide compensation for their treacherous resistance to their liberators. Another Clinton, then governor of New York, informed the defeated tribes that "considering our Losses, the Debts we have incurred, and our former Friendship, it is reasonable that You make to Us a Cession of your Lands as will aid Us in repairing and discharging the same." Having little choice, the Iroquois ceded their territory, only to discover that New York State proceeded at once to violate its solemn treaties and the prohibitions of the Articles of Confederation and to take most of the rest through threats, deception, and guile. A young American soldier later wrote home that "I really feel guilty as I applied the torch to huts that were Homes of Content until we ravagers came spreading desolation everywhere," but perhaps in a good cause: "Our mission here is ostensibly to destroy but may it not transpire that we pillagers are carelessly sowing the seeds of Empire?"