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To: Neocon who wrote (3433)	4/12/1999 3:44:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Well, I am very glad you pleased with everything. The extermination and removal of the Indians and the destruction of Indian tribes as entities was official U.S. policy and is genocide. Notice I quoted Sheridan not Sherman. Sheridan was in command of the campaign against the Indians in the west. His words to his officers are equivalent to telling them to kill. On a jury I would vote to convict him of mass murder from his behavior and his commands. Killing women and children and old people in attacks is hardly war, except by Sherman's definition. It is irrelevant whether mistreated peoples prefer to stay or leave. They have a right to stay and to be treated equally. It is American law. It has not always been. We did not annex the Southwest fair and square. Zackary Taylor's attack was on disputed ground. Anyone who did not negotiate a settlement of a border dispute today would be convicted of war crimes. We offerred Mexico a pittance for the purchase from Mexico. The land had been occupied and revolution in California had been accomplished. Mexico was desperately poor. The country had no hope of recovering the occupied land. Winfield Scott's army sat in Mexico City. Without the coerced treaty of Guadelupe-Hidalgo Scott would have starved the the population but would have face guerilla war miles from a port. As to human rights legislation we would be balkanized. We are armed to the teeth, guns are very cheap. Without interethnic justice we are dead.