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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (59824)	5/3/2006 10:20:56 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 93284

Forgotten history "Cinco de Mayo is already widely celebrated in the southwestern United States. But just as Hanukkah is celebrated more in the United States than in Israel, Cinco de Mayo is more of a holiday in the U.S. than in Mexico. Mexicans know that in the second Battle of Puebla in 1863, French troops crushed the Mexican army, days later occupied Mexico City, and continued to rule Mexico for the following four years. "The French Emperor Napoleon III dared to send troops to occupy Mexico only because the United States was preoccupied with its own War Between the States, a.k.a. our Civil War. When our war ended, we massed a huge American army on the Texas border with Mexico and informed the French emperor that under the Monroe Doctrine, we would not tolerate European control of Mexico. "Napoleon III beat a hasty retreat, leaving his installed 'liberal' Hapsburg puppet 'Emperor of Mexico' Maximilian I to be overthrown and executed by the locals in 1867. But drinking their beer each Cinco de Mayo, educated Mexicans bitterly remember that it was pressure from the United States that liberated their country from French colonial rule." -- Lowell Ponte, writing on "Uno de Mayo," Monday in Front Page at www.frontpagemag.com