Originally posted by ChessPraxisGolly you sure are a prickly fella, aintcha? Guess it's just as well for us poor eurotrash that your considerable influence falls short of the Whitehouse!
I didn't use them. I have a great deal of influence, but I wasn't born yet. Rest assured I would have dropped at least 25 bombs if the choice were mine.
Also if it's all the same to you, or even if it isn't, I'll decide when to use sarcasm or not. Obama has such power, yet he isn't qualified to do squat, so slam me down as the deciding factor, damn eurotrash.
Originally posted by RJHindsKeep taking the Stars n Stripes coloured drugs mate.
You are crazy. Americans are not like the British and the Soviet Union who want to aquire more territory to rule over. We only wanted to keep the peace. We eventually handed back control of Okinawa to Japan. The USSR was pretty much forced to release the East Germans back to the West. They did not do it willingly.
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Originally posted by RJHindsyes the one thing you can say about americans is that they are not greedy for territory.....oh apart from every inch of american soil, invaded and stole from the aborigines, like little fat chubby kids with greedy sausage fingers let loose in a sweet shop that the land grab and butchering of the locals was.
You are crazy. Americans are not like the British and the Soviet Union who want to aquire more territory to rule over. We only wanted to keep the peace. We eventually handed back control of Okinawa to Japan. The USSR was pretty much forced to release the East Germans back to the West. They did not do it willingly.
or is it only bad when other countries do it?
Originally posted by stellspalfieAmericans stole from the Aborigines.
yes the one thing you can say about americans is that they are not greedy for territory.....oh apart from every inch of american soil, invaded and stole from the aborigines, like little fat chubby kids with greedy sausage fingers let loose in a sweet shop that the land grab and butchering of the locals was.
or is it only bad when other countries do it?
Are you sure?
Originally posted by Rajk999Lets split the difference and call them the indigenous people of North America, but the fact remains they are schizoid about what other Nations do when they colonise somebody else'e land, and their own pride in their frontier past.
ok .. just that the aboriginal people are the first established people on the continent. Are you sure those were what is now called the native American Indians?
Originally posted by Rajk999There were multiple waves of "Indians". The first, first people were the "Indians" of Latin America - Mexicans and the like, dark and stocky - the ones that actually look like they may be from India.
ok .. just that the aboriginal people are the first established people on the continent. Are you sure those were what is now called the native American Indians?
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Originally posted by Rajk999aborigine can apply to any indigenous people. native american indians are also aborigine.
ok .. just that the aboriginal people are the first established people on the continent. Are you sure those were what is now called the native American Indians?
either way is it really worth beings so pedantic?
Originally posted by SuzianneWhat history books have you been reading?
no, at this point, the USSR was still an ally.
Truman dropped the bombs to end the war. Period. When the Japanese refused after the first one, he sent a second one. They surrendered the next day. The bombs saved tens of thousands of lives on each side by shortening the war and making an invasion unnecessary.
Originally posted by AThousandYoungI thought the first indigenous people migrated from the north across the Bering straight during the ice age and were Asiatic in origin.
There were multiple waves of "Indians". The first, first people were the "Indians" of Latin America - Mexicans and the like, dark and stocky - the ones that actually look like they may be from India.