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John Waltman <JW1@ganet.net (John Waltman)> writes:

> I would remind you of the fact that without the U.S. Canada and every > other nation in the Americas would probably be undre the N=
azi control > system at this time (you apparently have a short memory)

And you apparently have little knowledge of spelling, grammar and history. Do you mean Hitler's Germany would have invaded the USA? =
Sure, they declared war on you, but declaring war and invading across 3,000+ miles of ocean is a completely different matter. They c=
ouldn't even get across the English Channel, for God's sake. And why would they want to go on to subdue the rest of the Americas, ev=
en if they could. Not that they needed to - they already had allies in most of South America. Where do you think they all went after=
 the war (except for those subsequently employed by the US government)?
Isn't it the US that actually brought Central/South America under extreme-right wing rule? Can we say Pinochet? What about El Salvad=
or, Nicaragua, Panama, Cuba (until Castro rightfully kicked you out) and other countries where the US blatently interferes in domest=
ic politics. The assassination of Che Guevara by the CIA? Arms-Contra? The list is endless.

> The battles of the U.S. are the same battles YOU and other nations    > would be sending your young people to if the U.S. did not =
safeguard     > the world for YOU!!

So Americans fought in Vietnam for me, did they? I'm touched. And Grenada, Panama and Korea too? Gee thanks, you shouldn't have. As =
for safeguarding the world, which nation in 1990/1 refused almost en masse to cross the Atlantic in case Saddam Hussein had put a bo=
mb on _their_ plane? Clue: it wasn't a European nation. Was the Gulf War to safeguard me, or was it purely for the sake of US econom=
ic interests? Even a Yank shouldn't need more than 1 guess to get that right.
Anyway, I probably wouldn't be sent to these battles because we have a volunteer army in the UK - professionals, as opposed to most =
of the poor sods on mainland Europe who get a year's military service whether they want to or not.
Face it, you're trying to justify your braindead militarism by claiming to defend us. Well, you can stick your Stars'n'Stripes up yo=
ur ass (if Congress hasn't made it illegal yet), because we don't need you or want you.

Graham

"I am a donut" - John F Kennedy in Berlin