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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (22726)	6/3/1998 7:58:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Respond to of 108807

X: I am talking about things you obviously forgot, never experienced or were too much in a drug-induced fog to learn at school. Remember, you cannot learn well through osmosis! The real reason for the Civil War was over State's rights vs. federalism. The States lost power and the fed gained new powers it hadn't had previous to the conflict. The Spanish-American War was a land grab, but it also brought liberty to Spain's former colony because they no longer had to bend their knee to the King of Spain. If you think the Nazis weren't a threat to THIS country, ask any WWII vet who fought in Europe. The Nazi plan was to subjugate Europe and with Japan turn their attention to the U.S. One document captured from the German High Command showed the plans for the A3 rocket, an intercontinental multistage rocket code-named the "New York". Another document outlined the plan for Nazi Occupational forces to control America from the East Coast to the Mississippi, with Japan taking everything west of the Mississippi. Right at the end of WWII, the Nazis assembled a Wolf Pack and equipped them with undersea sleds mounted with V2 rockets and planned to fire them on NY and Washington. It was only because the British had broken the German High Command code that we were able to send a U.S. Naval task force out an intercept them in the Atlantic. Plus, Germany worked feverishly to complete their super weapons which included jet and rocket fighters and fighter-bombers, a crude atomic bomb which they were attempting to develop from their heavy water experimental plants in various locations including Norway. The list goes on and on. Our strategic interests were threatened by the North Koreans, and were again threatened by the North Vietnamese. We relied on the French Foreign Legion during the 50s to maintain the equilibrium there because we had vital interests in chromium, one of the few sources in the world at the time where we were getting this rare metal that was needed in the construction of our nuclear missiles. The Soviets had an ample internal supply, but ours was threatened. We were in a Cold War missile race with them and could not afford at the time to lose one of our primary sources of supply. During the course of the conflict we were gradually able to find other sources so that by the time the early 70s arrived the "war" had become more political than strategic. FT