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To: Elsewhere who wrote (128938)	8/1/2005 6:43:04 AM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793957

we got our problems in this country too. someone keeps sending kennedy back to the senate and a few others that fail to represent this country.

To: Elsewhere who wrote (128938)	8/1/2005 12:47:58 PM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 793957

The real disgrace, of course, is not some "tactical mistake" of the Allies but the disgrace beyond words of having voted the Nazis to power and following them into the abyss. Oh, we in the US have our own reasons for regret for the deeds of our ancestors. Slavery. Making treaties with Native American tribes and then breaking them unilateraly. Jim Crow laws, which legalized segregation of the races. Some rather ill-advised CIA-backed coups (they weren't all ill-advised.) Religious intolerance. Not living up to our wonderful ideals. But there's no such thing as collective guilt or blood guilt, so you're not tainted by Hitler, even if your ancestors were complicit. My own ancestors owned hundreds of slaves. It bothers me, but I don't feel guilty. I doubt there's a spot on Earth that hasn't been drenched in blood.