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To: longnshort who wrote (256798)	7/6/2008 3:53:04 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 794036

Long, you can get some more realistic understanding about the Irish potato famine here en.wikipedia.org and it looks like a USA conspiracy to attack Great Britain with the blight, but it missed and hit Ireland instead: <Migration of blight to Ireland The origin of Phytophthora infestans, can be traced to a valley in the highlands of central Mexico. The first recorded instances of the disease were in the United States, in Philadelphia and New York City in early 1843. Winds then spread the spores, and in 1845 it was found from Illinois to Nova Scotia, and from Virginia to Ontario. The disease crossed the Atlantic Ocean with a shipment of seed potatoes destined for Belgian farmers in 1845.[62] > It's a bit silly to say that the British starved the Irish to death. <When did the Brits starve the Irish to death? > You might say, in a similar way that the USA is starving people to death now by subsidizing ethanol in fuel. That's the consequence, but it's not really up to the USA to solve problems for people around the world. I know 4 July has just gone, but it's time to get over it. The British are not still running an empire demanding tribute from the American colonies. It was hundreds of years ago. You don't have to keep fighting. Mqurice