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To: michael97123 who wrote (242108)	9/17/2007 3:55:06 PM
From: c.hinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Then why do you insinuate that i take american protection for granted....that i undermine america by spending money living in europe as opposed to buying chinese imports in america and that italians are thankless cowards.. It is unsavory at best ...and underhanded cheap cowardly and the list goes on at worst.

To: michael97123 who wrote (242108)	9/17/2007 5:00:39 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

"Those few thousand american on the german border deterred the soviets" Lad; are you getting old? Those "few thousand troops" were almost twice what we have in Iraq, and they were considered inadequate to stop the barbarian hordes at the Fulda Gap, hence we were aiming nukes at that area, too. Germany became the primary potential battleground for World War III and U.S. troop levels tripled from 1950 to 1953. Every year for nearly four decades, one-quarter of a million troops were billeted in West Germany, but by 1993 the number had dropped to 105,254. heritage.org === The end of the world was supposed to start here. One morning when Moscow was angry or scared or stupid enough, Red Army tanks would smash through Germany's Fulda Gap in the opening hours of an invasion of Western Europe. By nightfall the Soviet Union and United States would be flinging thermonuclear-tipped missiles at each other's cities, making World War III the shortest and most-apocalyptic fight in the history of mankind. findarticles.com